14 minutes, 58 seconds: "Ashley Dupre" files $10M lawsuit against walking gonad Joe Francis

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Dupre Goes Wild on Joe Francis

Posted Apr 28th 2008 4:46PM by TMZ Staff

Ashley Dupre filed a lawsuit today against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, claiming she never gave GGW permission to use her name and likeness to advertise videos -- and she's asking for $10 mil.



Dupre, the call girl at the center of the Gov. Eliot Spitzer scandal, alleges in the lawsuit that GGW reps approached her while she was "socializing" at Miami's Chesterfield Hotel back in 2003, plied her with booze, and -- once she was drunk -- got her to flash her moneymakers.

Once Dupre became famous, GGW released the video and used it to promote the launch of their new magazine. She was only 17 at the time, she argues, so she was not old enough and "did not understand the magnitude" of what she was doing when she was signing a release, drunk. But, as TMZ first reported, she had a fake ID that said otherwise.

Calls to Francis' rep and Miami lawyer were not immediately returned.

http://www.tmz.com/2008/04/28/dupre-goes-wild-on-joe-francis/

[nomorenomore08]

1. Yet more evidence of Francis's repulsiveness.

I hope they get him on SOMETHING that can send him to prison, even if it's just some bullshit like tax evasion.

Y'know, I like seeing attractive young women in the nude as much as the next heterosexual man, but even so those "GGW" commercials on late-night TV always gave me this vaguely creepy feeling. After reading an expose on Francis, in which he was alleged to be not only a total sleazebag but a rapist, I understood why.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I could never bring myself to step into the GGW "world"...

...it's just sleaze, perversion, lip-licking lechery. I'm not the biggest Snoop Dogg fan in the world (OK, in all honesty, I'm not really a fan at all), but when he released his GGW DVD my reaction was "Calvin, what the HELL were you THINKING?"

:toast:

[Taverner]

5. Raping a girl, that's his crime

No doubt about it

Filming women over 18 who are drunk, that's not a crime. I'm not a customer, but anything other than absolute tolerance creates a chilling effect. It's been too cold here for long enough.

[nomorenomore08]

6. Oh, I never said there was anything criminal about "GGW" itself.

Just gave me the heebie-jeebies a bit, is all.

[Taverner]

7. True that

It's kind of weird - people who don't know how to handle their liquor undressing for the camera.

All the more reason for moderation ;)

[RetroLounge]

3. Sleazy video guy vs sleazy whore

Hmmmm.

:shrug:

RL

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Sort of "Everybody Wins-slash-Everybody Loses."

It's pathetic, no matter how you slice it.

:toast: