Joe Francis Uncensored

Girls Gone Wild auteur Joe Francis may be in for a taste of his own medicine thanks to a stolen tape showing him in a very compromising (and uncomfortable) position. Sources say the embarrassing video was taken along with cash and jewelry when celeb-loving thief Darnell Riley and his Elite model accomplice burglarized Francis’s Bel Air mansion in 2004. While Riley was arrested two months ago (the unknown model is still at large), someone connected to the break-in has reportedly been blackmailing Francis—using the tape as bait, we hear. Francis is so desperate to suppress the freaky footage—which insiders say features the party boy being humiliated with a large sex toy—that he’s been ponying up to keep it from going public. But with Riley’s case soon going to trial, the fate of the tape is uncertain. Will Francis seize the mantel from Fred Durst for starring in the year’s most revolting video? Girls Gone Wild spokesman Bill Horn declined to weigh in on the tape or the burglary, saying only that there was an ongoing investigation and that Francis’s employees “have been asked by the police not to comment.” On the bright side, we bet there are plenty of formerly “wild” girls who, sober now, would pay to see Francis squirm.

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