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Updated: 10:00 PM Apr 16, 2010
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Lawyers can be expensive. just ask "Girls Gone Wild" owner Joe Francis.
Posted: 10:00 PM Apr 16, 2010 |
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Lawyers can be expensive. just ask "Girls Gone Wild" owner Joe Francis.
Last year he paid a Tallahassee law firm a 200-thousand dollars retainer to defend him in a federal lawsuit here in Bay County.
Four women claim Girls Gone Wild crews shot explicit Spring Break video of them in Panama City Beach while they were underage.
Francis hired the Bateman Harden law firm to represent him until last July when the case was supposed to go to trial. But the trial has been delayed three times.
The lawyers say they've performed extensive work on the case since July without being paid. So, Friday the law firm filed a lawsuit against Francis, seeking an additional 491-thousand dollars.
The firms representatives say their contract allowed then to charge additional fees if the trial was delayed. Francis' trial is currently delayed because of pending appeals in the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta.
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I find it ironic that the hotels here on Panama City Beach (right next door to where the videos were filmed)and in some cases THE HOTEL/Condo, offers GGW on their pay-per-view channels. Talk about your double standard. "We don't want his kind in Bay Co" but hey for $19.95 plus tax you can see for yourself... Have your credit card handy or check with the front desk for details. Get a life... if not him... Your silly, drunk, spoiled little wannabe Divas will get naked for the next creep with a camera and a wad of cash.
If God would bless Joe Francis with a baby girl, I have a feeling he would change professions and be appauled at his past behavior and act like " A Real Man".
Considering how he has gotten away with his sleazy ways, he needs to be hit where it hurts -- his wallet. When the costs start to hurt his lifestyle then he might change. I say might because some people never learn to do the right thing. As a mother of two children, I hope that he has to pay-thru-the-nose for being so arragant with the judicial system. If it had been anyone else -- they would have been locked up in prison this whole time and their income garnished for the court and lawyer fees.
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