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"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has appealed to a judge to grant him access to his bank accounts after his assets were frozen when he was slapped with a $34 million bill for unpaid taxes. " />" class="middle" /> Read more! Read Full Story

The founder of "Girls Gone Wild" is set to return before a Florida Panhandle federal judge who witnessed a tearful, nose-blowing apology from the young, multimillionaire in 2007. Joe Francis is due in Judge Richard Smoak's court on Nov. 20 for a hearing involving four women who say Francis' company filmed them when they were underage. Francis' attorneys want the case thrown out and the women's attorneys want him to pay. In 2007, Francis sobbed and asked to be freed from a Panama City jail. Smoak jailed him for contempt of court after Francis yelled at attorneys during settlement negotiations in another case. The ... Read Full Story

A judge has sentenced "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero on Friday accepted the terms of a plea deal between Francis and prosecutors. Prosecutors struck the deal after learning on the eve of trial that a key witness had lied to them. The soft-porn mogul who filmed and marketed videos of young women initially was accused of taking $20 million in fraudulent deductions earlier this decade. Under the deal, Francis entered guilty pleas in September to two misdemeanor counts of filing false tax returns ... Read Full Story

 "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing false tax returns and will avoid further jail time in a tax case that spanned two states and several years.Francis entered the pleas to two misdemeanor counts of filing false tax returns and one count of bribing Nevada jail workers in exchange for food.The plea agreement calls for Francis, who has built a soft porn empire filming and marketing videos of young women, to pay $250,000 in restitution and receive credit for jail time served.Francis was indicted by a federal grand jury on tax evasion charges in 2007 and has spent 301 days ... Read Full Story

'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis received a letter via TMZ.com from Candy Spelling which called him out, telling him he "blew it". The imprisoned Francis took little time to fire back with a brillant rebutal. Let's just hope this doesn't turn into some lame Rosie vs. Trump type battle. Dear Candy: I don't know you, I have never met you and I don't know anything about you. After reading your letter posted on the internet, my mental picture of you is of a lonely old woman living in a mansion in Holmby Hills with let's say 300 cats jumping around, some in their ... Read Full Story