Saying he would not sit back and let anyone call him a rapist, Girls Gone Wild founder Joseph Francis filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against a Texas woman who accused him of just that in March, according to papers, copies of which were obtained by AVNOnline.com.
The woman - identified as "Amy Doe" in the filing though the papers and a previous police report suggest Francis knew the woman before the incident in question - "deliberately or recklessly made a false report" of rape about a consensual sexual encounter Francis claims he had with the woman, a report she is charged with repeating to a reporter from the Miami Herald, which subsequently published a story repeating the allegations.
Francis's countersuit also accuses a friend of the woman - identified as "Jane Doe" in the court filing, and who is said to have joined Francis and "Amy Doe" for lunch the day after the encounter - of "deliberately or recklessly aid(ing) and assist(ing) Amy Doe in making (a) false police report, knowing that the facts alleged to the Miami Beach Police Department were false, misleading, and made with the intent to harm and injure Mr. Francis's reputation."
According to the police report, the two women were at a Miami nightclub on March 12, when an unidentified friend of Francis approached them saying he wanted to meet "Amy Doe," then argued over Francis's alleged wish to feature her in a Girls Gone Wild installment. "Victim did not agree or approve of (the) video representation of young girls," the police report said, adding that Francis subsequently invited the woman and her friend for drinks at his Ritz Carlton Hotel room. The two women went to the room, where Francis and "a female bodyguard" met them.
After arguing again about Girls Gone Wild, the police report continued, Francis walked into the bedroom and "the victim followed." She remembered waking up in bed with Francis the following morning, the report said, and when she allegedly refused to have sex with Francis, Francis allegedly replied, "Why not, we already had?" The woman then dressed, awakened her friend in the other room, and left, going to a hospital for an examination, but not reporting the incident to police until five days after the hotel incident, when she had already left Miami. The police report also said she told investigators she believed Francis spiked her drink.
Francis's countersuit alleges he met "Amy and Jane Doe" with his "associates," and while enjoying the club entertainment he and Amy Doe kissed and talked before the group decided to go to the Francis suite at the Ritz Carlton, where Francis's associates "observed Mr. Francis and Amy Doe holding hands on their way into the hotel." After Francis's bodyguard checked the identification of the two women to "confirm that they were of legal age," they went inside the suite, where Francis denies having served any more than a single drink to Amy Doe, who "only drank a few sips." Francis also denies that he or any of his associates provided any drugs to the two women "even after both Amy Doe and Jane Doe independently requested" cocaine, according to the countersuit.
Francis's countersuit agrees they discussed Girls Gone Wild again at the suite, but that he and Amy Doe went to his bedroom, where she undressed and joined him in bed for consensual sex, before going to sleep, while Jane Doe and Francis's bodyguard stayed awake until 7 a.m. the following morning.
Francis's countersuit also said Amy Doe refused sex the following morning, after they awoke around 11:30 a.m., because she was stressed over a late rental car return, then put on hotel robes and went to the main suite area, ordering room service, then laying down on Francis's bed until about 1:15 p.m., when the two women asked for and received money for their rental car situation, received Girls Gone Wild T-shirts, and left after Amy Doe kissed Francis goodbye.
"Mr. Francis did not call either Amy Doe or Jane Doe, nor has he heard anything from Amy Doe or Jane Doe since that time," the countersuit said, adding that he heard soon enough about the rape charges, when he was contacted by the news media about the March 17 police report.
But the countersuit continued that Francis heard from the news media about the woman's March 17 police report.
