‘Girls Gone Wild Exposed’: Shocking rape and abuse claims in new Joe Francis doc

nypost.com:

the nonfiction book “The Pill That Steals Lives,” the TNT show draws back the curtain on the “Girls Gone Wild” machine. What was sold as sexy, sunny Y2K-era spring break hedonism — and even sex-positive female empowerment — was actually, according to Blackford Newman, darkly exploitative and sinister.

And despite high-profile fans and friends, Francis was a cruel, abusive ringmaster. “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,” Blackford Newman told The Post. “Young women like Jannel thought Joe Francis was OK because he hung out with celebrities,” the Emmy-nominated filmmaker continued. “Nobody could believe that somebody who rubs shoulders with the Kardashians, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston could be a violent abuser and a criminal.”(Joe Francis did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.)Launched in 1997, “Girls Gone Wild” raked in $20 million within its first two years of operation.

By 2004, the never-ending, boob-centric party was amassing a cool $100 million annually, and numerous celebs were part of the party.The documentary features footage of Pitt talking about being a fan of the videos and noting that Aniston gave him some as a gift.

But the wild good times the “GGW” videos portrayed were actually terrible for many of the women on the other side of the camera.Blackford Newman recounted footage from the documentary in which a Francis employee tricks barely legal, inebriated women into shooting same-sex pornography.