2:06 pm - 08/23/2011
Joe Francis insists he never laid a hand on the chick who claims the "Girls Gone Wild" honcho assaulted her in his Hollywood mansion -- telling TMZ, he even has security footage to PROVE he's innocent.
Joe tells us, he has THREE surveillance cameras that captured the 3-woman altercation at his home back in January -- from several different angles -- and he wasn't involved.
According to Francis, two of the girls were fighting EACH OTHER -- and all three were escorted out of his house for being unruly.
It's a drastically different story from what the girls told police -- that Francis grabbed one of them by the throat and hair, and slammed her head into the tiled floor of his house ... four times.
Francis was charged with one count of assault causing great bodily injury as a result -- in addition to three counts of false imprisonment and one count of dissuading a witness from filing a police report.
But Francis insists it's all BS -- telling us, there wasn't even a tiled floor anywhere near the scene of the fight. TMZ spoke to two other people at Francis' home that night -- and both are prepared to testify in Joe's defense.
Interesting side note: the City Attorney who charged Francis is currently prepping to run for D.A. -- and Joe believes the entire case is politically motivated.
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Joe Francis claims innocence
Joe Francis insists he never laid a hand on the chick who claims the "Girls Gone Wild" honcho assaulted her in his Hollywood mansion -- telling TMZ, he even has security footage to PROVE he's innocent.
Joe tells us, he has THREE surveillance cameras that captured the 3-woman altercation at his home back in January -- from several different angles -- and he wasn't involved.
According to Francis, two of the girls were fighting EACH OTHER -- and all three were escorted out of his house for being unruly.
It's a drastically different story from what the girls told police -- that Francis grabbed one of them by the throat and hair, and slammed her head into the tiled floor of his house ... four times.
Francis was charged with one count of assault causing great bodily injury as a result -- in addition to three counts of false imprisonment and one count of dissuading a witness from filing a police report.
But Francis insists it's all BS -- telling us, there wasn't even a tiled floor anywhere near the scene of the fight. TMZ spoke to two other people at Francis' home that night -- and both are prepared to testify in Joe's defense.
Interesting side note: the City Attorney who charged Francis is currently prepping to run for D.A. -- and Joe believes the entire case is politically motivated.
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Edited at 2011-08-23 07:16 pm (UTC)
I've only seen him on Million Dollar Decorators, and HOLY FUCK he has a temper. This woman's allegation being true would not surprise me a bit.
And he claimed the other witnesses would back him up, which was the management at the club that he had in his back pocket. And then he claimed that the video would back him up, but it was ~*strangely*~ missing, until some footage surfaced.... and showed him doing just what she said he did.
Let's see how this one plays out.
Douchebag. Liar. Abuser.
On March 25, 2008, four women filed suit against him in Florida for filming them while underage, with one girl claiming she had been 13 when filmed.[19] On April 7, 2011, this trial was decided with no award for the plaintiffs.[20]
and he looks like jim jones from the people's temple
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/au