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12-28-2009 02:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by neonlights
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doesn't matter who is right....what matters is gawker now has lawsuit to deal with...great job gawker.
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Gawker responds:
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It falls to Gawker Media's legal honcho Gaby Darbyshire to handle complaints like these. In her reply to Yeom, she pointed out that there are about 140,000 Google search results for "joe francis rapist," including his Wikipedia page. And the old Defamer post we linked to last week is based on a 2006 Los Angeles Times profile of Francis by Claire Hoffman in which an 18-year-old girl gives an on the record account of Francis having sex with her on the Girls Gone Wild bus despite her repeatedly saying no. The whole thing is really worth a read. As Gaby wrote, "frankly, let's face it ? given his chosen career and his actions to date, it would be hard to say that your client really has any reputation of social probity and standing to damage at this point, now does he?"
We're sorry that Gaby had to take time during her Christmas break to deal with this. But we are relieved that Francis hasn't let success temper what got him to the top of the douche heap. Shine on, you big beautiful oozing boil of a human being!
Update: Okay, fine. After some consideration, we're sorry for calling you a "rapist" since you are more accurately "an alleged rapist." After all, we've never seen you doing the raping, only read about it.
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This is an excerpt from the LA Times article Gawker cited:
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Above the dance floor, the stage is full of girls who rotate, twist
and shimmy their way up and down three strip poles. One of them is
Jannel Szyszka, a petite 18-year-old who prances around the stage like
a star. At her feet, a crowd of hundreds is gyrating to the pounding
house music. Dozens of polo-shirted boys shout up to her, making
requests like ?shake your titties? and ?get crunk? (meaning
crazy-drunk).
Szyszka tells me later that as she was spinning around the strip pole
that night, Francis appeared, grabbed her arm and pulled her toward
him. ?You are so going on the bus later,? she recalls Francis saying.
?I was like, ?Um, OK.? I was shocked. I was like, ?Whoa', ?Joe?s, like,
trying to talk to me, like out of all the girls in here.?? Francis
invited her back to the VIP area to do shots with him, she says, and
she said yes.
Szyszka says the more shots she drank, the cloudier her judgment
became. She says she agreed to join Francis and his crew on the ?Girls
Gone Wild? bus. ?I thought ?Girls Gone Wild? was like flashing, and I
thought I would flash them and be done. And so when I?m walking to the
bus, that?s all I?m thinking is going to happen.?
At first she felt comfortable, she says. Inebriated and excited, she
says she was led to the back of the bus, to a small bedroom. The
double bed, with its neatly folded iridescent purple sheets, takes up
most of the room. A flat-screen TV faces the bed, and cabinets are
filled with remote controls, lubricants, condoms, sex toys in plastic
bags, baby oil, a DVD called ?How to be a Player? and a clipboard full
of waivers for girls to sign. A small bathroom is off to the side,
with a half-sized shower with faux marble tiling, and on the floor of
the shower is a crate holding cheap and fruity-flavored rum, whiskey,
tequila and Kool-Aid.
Footage from that night shows a close-up of Szyszka?s driver?s
license, proving she?s not a minor. The camera then captures Szyszka
lying on the bed. Her nails are chipped, her eyes coated with makeup.
Following a camerman?s instructions, she shows her breasts and says,
?Girls Gone Wild.? She seems shy but willing. She smiles. The unseen
cameraman asks her to take off her shirt, her skirt, then her
underwear.
She sprawls on the bed, her legs open. At his suggestion,
she masturbates with a dildo, saying repeatedly that it hurts but also
feels good. Francis enters the room at certain points and you hear his
voice, low and flirtatious, telling her, ?You are so adorable.? When
she says she?s a virgin, he responds: ?Great. You won?t be after my
cameraman gets done with you.?
When I talk to Szyszka seven days later, she says she ?didn?t quite
realize? she was being filmed. ?But I didn?t care because I was drunk
and who cares?? Then she adds: ?It didn?t feel good to me at all, but
I was totally faking it because I was on ?Girls Gone Wild.??
Eventually, Szyszka says, Francis told the cameraman to leave and
pushed her back on the bed, undid his jeans and climbed on top of her.
?I told him it hurt, and he kept doing it. And I keep telling him it
hurts. I said, ?No? twice in the beginning, and during I started
saying, ?Oh, my god, it hurts.? I kept telling him it hurt, but he
kept going, and he said he was sorry but kissed me so I wouldn?t keep
talking.?
Afterward, she says, Francis cleaned them both off with a paper towel
and told her to get dressed. Then, she says, he opened the door and
told the cameraman to come back, saying, ?She?s not a virgin anymore.?
Szyszka says Francis told her that what happened had to stay between
them. She says she agreed, and they walked to the front of the bus.
Szyszka remembers that one of the crew returned her driver?s license.
Another asked if she wanted to hang out on the bus. She declined, she
says, but asked for three pairs of ?booty short? underwear that
Francis had promised her for appearing on camera. ?They gave me a
weird look like that was too much,? Szyszka recalls. ?They were, like,
?Three of them?? and I was, like, ?Yeah, three.??
Within days, Szyszka says, she told her father, who was angry about
what she said had happened but kept quiet at her request. A month
after the incident, she says, she told her sister and mother.
She?s confused, she admits, about what happened. She feels guilty, she
says, for getting herself into the situation in the first place. She
says she never would have undressed for the cameras if she hadn?t been
completely drunk. And she is adamant that she said ?no? to Francis.
She says she?s haunted by that night.
?I feel like it was planned,? she says. ?Sometimes I?m driving along,
and I think about it and all of a sudden feel weird.?
Six weeks after that night outside Chicago, when I call Francis on his
cellphone and ask him about the incident, he says he doesn?t remember
Szyszka and that he didn?t have sex with anyone that night. He seems
to lose control, repeatedly referring to me by a crude word for female
genitalia. ?If you print that, I will [expletive] sue the [expletive]
out of you. If you print that, baby, you just put the nail in your own
coffin,? he tells me. ?You are a [expletive expletive]. You decided to
blast me . . . You are a [expletive] bitch . . . I will get my last
laugh on you. I will get you.? He then refers me to Burke, his lawyer.
In an e-mail, Burke says Francis and Szyszka did have sex ?consensual
sex?, and that neither Francis nor anyone affiliated with ?Girls Gone
Wild? gave her any alcohol. ?Neither Mr. Francis nor any of the GGW
staff in or around the bus recall Ms. Szyszka making any complaint or
comment about Mr. Francis.
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Rapist or alleged rapist, I still think they got it right about Joe Francis being the "Douche of the Decade", for these among other reasons:
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On March 12, 2008 Francis was convicted on child abuse and prostitution charges
On March 25, 2008, four women filed suit against him in Florida for filming them while underage, with one girl claiming she had been 13 when filmed.
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It might be a little harder for Joe to "settle out of court", if in fact, he doesn't have the financial resources to buy off his accuser's silence anymore.
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