GIRLS Gone Wild founder Joe Francis has been accused of allegedly raping a woman named Jannel in 2006, according to the first episode of a new true-crime series.
The former Kardashian family friend will reportedly be exposed in TNT’s new documentary as it alleges physical and sexual assault, child pornography, and domestic abuse accusations against Francis.
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Throughout his years as the founder and creator of the Girls Gone Wild entertainment brand, Francis was a part of the Y2K party scene.
However, the first episode of the anthology series Rich & Shameless, called Girls Gone Wild Exposed, sets out to show that the adult entertainment machine was allegedly exploitative to young girls like Jannel.
In 2006, Jannel was an 18-year-old self-proclaimed “party girl” in the Chicago nightlife scene, according to the New York Post‘s preview of the premiere episode.
In the episode, Jannel comes forward to accuse Francis of brutally raping her in the back of his tour bus.
Jannel claims that after meeting Francis on the dance floor at a Chicago nightclub, he fed her alcohol “like it was water” while incessantly complimenting her looks.
When Francis invited Jannel onto his tour bus, she says that she assumed the worst she’d be asked to do is to flash her breasts at a camera for the entertainment brand.
Jannel claims that once entering the bus, she was forced to touch herself with objects that Francis kept by his bed before he allegedly forced himself onto her.
“He kept trying to kiss me and saying, ‘It’s going to be OK, it’s going to be OK,'” Jannel claims in the episode.
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“And I was like, ‘Get off of me, get off of me.’
“He basically forced himself on me, and it hurt because I wasn’t ‘turned on,’ so it really hurt.”
Jannel says that she was only 100 pounds at the time of the alleged attack, explaining that she wasn’t able to fight off the alleged assault.
“I didn’t give my consent that night, and he totally raped me. And then he got off of me like I was garbage.”
DIRECTOR’S TAKE
Director Katinka Blackford Newman told The Post that she wants the episode to show that “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.”
“Young women like Jannel thought Joe Francis was OK because he hung out with celebrities.
“Nobody could believe that somebody who rubs shoulders with the Kardashians, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston could be a violent abuser and a criminal.”
The documentary alleges that Francis, now 49, had a dark history due to claims that he was sent to boarding school as a child for being “unmanageable.”
The episode also claims that in 2003, Francis was arrested on charges of child pornography for filming underage girls having sex.
PAST DRAMA
Francis made headlines just last year when he claimed that his seven-year-old twin daughters were missing.
Though he claimed that the girls’ mother disappeared with them in Mexico, his ex-girlfriend Abbey Wilson insisted she had full temporary custody of their kids — and did not kidnap anyone.
Last summer, Wilson had accused Francis of meth and cocaine abuse, adding to her previous allegations of his domestic abuse.
In August of 2020, he was accused of grabbing her by the neck and spitting in her face to give her Covid.
Francis was charged with domestic violence and intentional injury after the incident at his Punta Mita home, according to Mexican court documents obtained by The Sun.
He reportedly spent 73 days in a Mexican jail.
Following Francis’s arrest, his Mexico home known as Casa Aramara caught fire and suffered substantial damage.
The documentary reports that Wilson is now raising their daughters “in hiding” and without Francis’s financial support.
It also claims that Francis is currently living as a fugitive in Mexico to escape battery and false imprisonment charges.
The Sun has reached out to Joe Francis for comment.
The 90-minute documentary will air on TNT this Saturday at 7pm.
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