“Young women like Jannel thought Joe Francis was OK because he hung out with celebrities,” the Emmy-nominated filmmaker continued. “Behind the fun, the wet T-shirt competitions and the faux-feministic liberation centered around flashing your breasts in front of a camera, lives were being ruined,” Blackford Newman told The Post. And despite high-profile fans and friends, Francis was a cruel, abusive ringmaster.ħ Guests during Girls Gone Wild and Coochie Power Mardi Gras in 2004. What was sold as sexy, sunny, Y2K-era spring-break hedonism - and even sex-positive female empowerment - was actually, according to Blackford Newman, darkly exploitative and sinister. And then he got off of me like I was garbage.”ĭirected by Katinka Blackford Newman, known for blowing the whistle on Big Pharma with the nonfiction book “The Pill That Steals Lives,” the TNT show draws back the curtain on the “Girls Gone Wild” machine. I didn’t give my consent that night, and he totally raped me. “He kept trying to kiss me and saying, ‘It’s going to be OK, it’s going to be OK.’ And I was like, ‘Get off of me, get off of me,’ ” Jannel says in “Girls Gone Wild Exposed,” the first episode of TNT’s new true-crime anthology series “Rich & Shameless,” airing Saturday. “He basically forced himself on me, and it hurt because I wasn’t ‘turned on,’ so it really hurt … He took hold of me. Instead, she said, she was forced to “touch” herself with objects that he’d stored on the sleeper bus in a bedside dresser drawer. She claims that Francis cherrypicked her from the crowded dance floor, fed her alcohol “like it was water,” incessantly complimented her looks and then invited her onto the bus - where she assumed that the worst she’d be asked to do was flash her breasts at a “Girls Gone Wild” camera.ħ Launched in 1997, “Girls Gone Wild” raked in $20 million within its first two years of operation. That’s when Jannel claims that “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis brutally raped her in the back of his logo-wrapped tour bus, which was parked near Chicago’s Club Envy, where they’d partied earlier in the evening. With a badass under-lip piercing, rock star-reminiscent locks and a petite frame, the vivacious 18-year-old was a regular on the Chicago nightlife scene.īut the thumping club anthems hit a shrieking record scratch around 2:30 a.m. The early 2000s were a crazy time for self-crowned “party girl” Jannel. ‘Girls Gone Wild Exposed’: Shocking rape and abuse claims in new Joe Francis doc Kardashian pal Joe Francis arrested on domestic violence charges last year: report ‘Girls Gone Wild Exposed’ uncovers ‘dark’ secrets of infamous sex videos
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