The interesting thing here is that Francis & co didn’t get in trouble for producing trashy, exploitative, demeaning videos. Under the terms of a deal with the Justice Department, Francis agreed to personally pay a $500,000 fine to settle charges in Los Angeles that he failed to keep records of the ages and identities of the women who appeared in his films, the Los Angeles Times reported.Īs a result, footage of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct appeared in at least two DVDs he released, Francis said in a statement reported by The Times. Joe Francis and the Santa Monica-based company he built on soft-core “Girls Gone Wild” videos has agreed to pay $2.1 million in fines after pleading guilty to violating laws designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. Here’s one version of the story: ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Producer Pleads Guilty To Exploiting Minors The other story, which popped up on various news sources this week, is about the Girls Gone Wild series of videos. (Question: why are bumfight videos so much more awful & exploitative than the Bumvertising that I blogged about back in December? Is it just the danger & violence? Or is it something else?) Unfortunately: “Meanwhile, the company continues to produce new footage.” Last year McPherson and another producer were sentenced to six months in jail for failing to perform their community service. In June, 2003, several producers…pleaded guilty to staging an illegal fight for their videos. In the first six months of operation, back in 2002, the producers generated more than half-a million dollars in sales. It’s called Bumfights-available for rent in some video stores in Canada, and on the internet. It’s about a video series that shows homeless people being beaten, tied up, thrown down stairwells, and goaded into bloody fist-fights and stunts. That’s why our first story is so shocking. There are few people as vulnerable as the homeless, because many are rendered that way due to addiction and mental illness. One story, on CBC Radio’s The Current 2 days ago, was about so-called “bumfight” videos…videos that feature homeless people either being payed to fight each other, or engaging in other dangerous and/or degrading behaviour.Īccording to the on-line synopsis of the show, Two stories popped up this week involving people getting into legal trouble over the exploitative videos they sell.
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