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‘Girls Gone Wild’ Joe Francis Engaged to L.A. Reporter Christina McLarty

andPOP Staff — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:39:17 +0000

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You wouldn’t think Joe Francis is the type of guy for marriage, but he is out to prove that’s not the case. Francis has proposed to a beautiful L.A. reporter named Christina McLarty, whom he has been dating for four years.

Francis told Page Six that he popped the question while vacationing with McLarty in St. Tropez. However this will not be a mainstream marriage.

“We have chosen to have a civil domestic partnership because we don’t believe it’s appropriate to be married until our gay and lesbian friends are afforded the same rights as us to legally marry in the United States,” he said.

The ceremony will have 200 guests at Francis’ beachfront estate in Punta Mita, Mexico.

“The weekend will be fun, luxurious and filled with lots of surprises,” he said, revealing that music producer Quincy Jones has agreed to be his best man.

Let’s hope Christina can help get Joe’s life back on track. Let’s not forget he spent 2008 in a Florida prison on a variety of charges, along with allegedly owing casino owner Steve Wynn millions of dollars.

Joe Francis Threatened By Steve Wynn Over Gambling Debt

andPOP Staff — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:39:36 +0000

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It’s funny when rich guys get in fights. Especially when the fight is over a $2,000,000 gambling debt.

“Girls Gone Wild” tycoon Joe Francis told a judge today that he fears for his life, reports TMZ. “Mr. Wynn has threatened to kill me … He said he would hit me in the back of the head with a shovel and bury me in the desert.” Francis alleges that casino owner Steve Wynn has made threats against Francis over an unpaid debt.

Francis lost a $2,000,000 judgement to Wynn after Francis had a bad streak in one of Wynn’s hotels and didn’t pay up. Wynn’s lawyers hauled Francis to court today for him to reveal where he’s hiding his money.

Dirty Talk With Jayde Nicole

Ilan Mester — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:49:11 +0000

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After reading this headline, you might want to get your mind out of the gutter. While Jayde Nicole may be a Playmate – in fact, she was named 2008’s Playmate of the year – the sexy Canadian model is also involved in a slew of other projects including charity work, poker tournaments and of course, “The Hills.”

If you watch the MTV show “The Hills,” then you know that its former star, Lauren Conrad, said her goodbyes last season and now, “Laguna Beach’s” Kristin Cavallari fronts the show. So how have things changed? Nicole — who first appeared on “The Hills” last season as Brody Jenner’s girlfriend — explains.

“It’s definitely 100 per cent different,” she says (with emphasis on the 100). “It’s been a lot more dramatic and a lot more crazy, and it’s just kind of totally different from what we’re all used to.”

Both Nicole and Cavallari make no point in hiding that they’re not friends — to say it nicely — but Nicole says that could very well change one day. “It hasn’t changed as of right now, but you never know. I mean, I try to never say never because you don’t ever know what’s going to happen. If you would’ve asked me eight months ago if I would of been able to handle being around Audrina [Patridge], I would of said ‘no I can’t stand her,’ ” she admits. “But now I don’t mind her and neither one of us really have problems with each other anymore, so I don’t see us being friends in the future, but you never know.”

For those of you who wonder what it’s like working with Jenner (who happens to be Nicole’s boyfriend), she explains. “A lot of the times it’s awesome and a lot of the times it’s not because being in a reality TV show, obviously our entire relationship is put out on TV for everybody to judge and for us to relive fights and arguments and situations and of course, they also take the worst of the worst and put it in an episode,” Nicole laughs.

Speaking of arguments, her lawsuit against “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis, alleging assault and battery, is still going on. “The legal process takes a lot longer than everybody thinks that it does — and a lot longer than I thought it did, and there’s a lot of steps and processes you have to go through to make sure it’s done right. So it’s still at the same stage it was before, we’re just kind of waiting,” says Nicole.

So what else does she do? It might come to a surprise that charity makes up a huge part of her life. In high school, she was in charge of many of the charity events, which transpired into her adult life. Today, Nicole does a ton of work with the SPCA and recently joined a PETA campaign called “Save the Seals.” She’s involved in walkathons (like the AIDS Walk) and started her own charity called “Lengths For Love,” which is similar to “Locks of Love.”

“I just do as much stuff with charities that I really believe in — and there’s a lot of them so I try and do as much as I can whenever I can,” she says. “I feel like everybody should and I think especially people that are in the public eye…now that people actually see me in the public eye, and some people listen to me…I feel like it’s even more important now for me to continue doing charity work.”

Aside from charity, poker has become a priority for her. Nicole is currently part of PokerStar’s “Million Dollar Challenge” airing on Fox. She’s also the guinea pig for the “All In Magazine Project” which will train her with pro players so that she can be entered into international poker competitions.

And in the long run, she dreams of opening up a spa. “I wanted to own my own spa for a very long time and I definitely want to come out with my own skin care line,” she reveals. “It’s not something that’s happening in the immediate future because I’m still busy with all the things that I have going on right now, but it is kind of my end goal in life,” she tells andPOP. “So once I’m done all the crazy reality shows and traveling and partying and modeling and working, it’s definitely what I wanna settle down doing, 100 per cent”.

Girls Gone Wild Producer Joe Francis Drops Gay Slur

Vanessa Baker — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:10:39 +0000

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Joe Francis, founder of Mantra Films Inc., which produces Girls Gone Wild, shouted a gay slur at a doorman after he was denied entry into a night club, reports TMZ.

This comes less than a week after Francis was seen marching in the Equality March in Washington, DC.