(The alleged assault was first reported in a 2006 Los Angeles Times profile in which he also physically assaults the 29-year-old female journalist.) Though she went to police, “nothing to this day has ever been done about it,” Jannel says in the film. Lack of accountability appears to be a running theme for Francis. (Those charges, for which he was found guilty in 2013, stem from a 2011 incident in which he met three recent college graduates at a bar, took them to his Bel-Air home, prevented them from leaving his vehicle, grabbed one girl’s hair and throat and slammed her head on the floor.) For years, Francis dodged or settled numerous lawsuits and skipped out of jail time for a misdemeanor assault and false imprisonment conviction in Los Angeles by fleeing to his resort home in Mexico. “Of course, his legacy lives on in the lives that he’s ruined, the women whose images he stole, either by filming them without their permission or getting them blind drunk and persuading them to take part in seedy sex scenes without payment.” “He slipped under the radar of the #MeToo movement, because he has been irrelevant for quite some time,” said Blackford Newman. The allegations are not all from the Girls Gone Wild days the film opens with a disturbing audio recording from August 2020 by his ex-wife, Abbey Wilson, in which she screams in terror as Francis apparently attacks and chokes her when Wilson screams “You’re killing me,” Francis replies: “Good.
I hope you fucking die.” (The film states that Wilson “has not objected” to use of the recording.) Francis was arrested in Mexico and spent 73 days in jail on domestic violence charges. The documentary attempts to make sense of Francis’s apparent violent streak. Raised in Laguna Beach, Francis supposedly did not have a happy home life with his three sisters and parents. (His family, who later took out restraining orders against him, declined to participate in the film). By high school, he attended a correctional boarding school in Idaho that was later shuttered under allegations of abuse.įrancis first got his start in television in the mid-90s, working as a production assistant for Real TV, a syndicated show of home-video bloopers.
In 1997, he released Banned from Television, a collection of material cut from Real TV for being too graphic or violent. (In 2000, a fellow Real TV producer sued Francis for breach of implied contract, breach of confidence and unjust enrichment.
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