Girls Gone Crazy: The Untold Story is a docuseries streaming on Peacock that explains the rise and phenomenon of Crazy ladies, additionally exposing their authorized issues and allegations of abuse obtained by ladies and ladies. Below are an important takeaways from the primary episode:
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Joe Francis is the founder and creator of Girls gone loopy.
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After faculty, Joe started working as a manufacturing assistant for RealTV. It was a present that confirmed native information clips and residential movies that had been “too violent or horny to be proven on the information.”
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Joe then started creating compilations of Real TVs lower footage that’s too dangerous for TV. Using this disturbing footage, he started creating and promoting a house video collection referred to as Banned from tv.
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Banned from tv it grew to become an enormous success and Joe grew to become a millionaire on the age of 24.
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Joe mentioned he got here up with the thought Girls gone loopy as he was reviewing footage and got here throughout a tape of younger ladies at Mardi Gras who had been flashing the digicam.
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Joe began an organization referred to as Mantra Films and determined he would promote the tapes via an promoting house. He finally discovered the chance for this advert house on Howard Stern’s present, as a result of it was a controversial present that aired late at evening. Subsequently, the adverts started showing on different cable networks reminiscent of Comedy Central and Fox Sports.
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In the primary two years they offered so many cassettes that Girls gone loopy he earned $20 million.
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The ladies within the movies weren’t skilled artists, they had been “actual” ladies, usually white and round 18 years previous.
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Some of the GGW the movies allegedly featured minors. In 1999, the corporate offered a video that included a 16-year-old lady named Lori displaying off the digicam whereas on spring break. They had been sued, Lori obtained a small compensation and was faraway from the movies.
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In the early 2000s, they encountered issues licensing third-party footage, so the corporate took management of the footage. They owned three million greenback tour buses that toured the nation and held occasions each evening. Each bus had three to 4 cameras. They additionally had a jet to take them all over the world to locations like Jamaica, Cancun and different in style spring break locations.
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GGW I might attempt to discover locations within the nation the place there could be numerous spring break. They needed to carry their occasions in cities the place they thought ladies could be bored, reminiscent of West Virginia, South Florida and Texas. They prevented New York and Los Angeles.
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A girl named Trista recalled being 19 years previous, drunk on spring break, and never remembering being filmed by GGW crew. One evening, whereas in Cancun for MTV Spring Break, she remembers being accosted outdoors a membership by the digicam crew whereas she was drunk, however says she would not bear in mind a lot after that. Months later, she and her associates had been watching TV when a GGW the business got here along with her current. A number of weeks later he additionally discovered that he was on the duvet of one of many tapes.
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Todd Julian, an legal professional in Phoenix, Arizona, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Joe Francis in 2003 and the GGW franchising. His shopper needed GGW cease utilizing her picture after she appeared in one of many tapes lifting her shirt at a frat celebration. The decide dominated in favor of Joe Francis.
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In 2002, MGM was in talks with Joe Francis to make a GGW film.
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THE GGW the tapes weren’t simply footage of ladies utilizing the digicam. The tapes additionally included hardcore intercourse scenes between ladies. In the tapes, the ladies had been proven performing oral intercourse or masturbating.
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Some of the rules for GGW the cameramen appeared to counsel forcing ladies who hesitated to make use of the digicam’s flash. The paperwork present that the cameramen had been instructed to be aggressive and protracted.
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Marc Schmitz, a former GGW cameraman, claimed that it was widespread for cameramen to get ladies drunk earlier than filming a scene.
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When the GGW The crew went on spring break to Panama City Beach, Florida in 2003. Then-Mayor Lee Sullivan noticed Joe Francis and instructed him to depart city. Panama City Beach is a small, very quiet city that will get rowdy yearly throughout spring break, a lot to the residents’ disdain. The celebration solely acquired worse GGW There. Former Mayor Lee Sullivan additionally took subject with ladies exposing themselves in public locations GGW.
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While in Panama City Beach, Florida, the crew was beneath fixed police surveillance. Helicopters flew over their teams they usually had been always adopted by the police.
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Joe Francis then filed a restraining order in opposition to Panama City Beach officers to avoid his cameramen throughout filming.
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And lastly, Joe Francis and Lee Sullivan went on Greta Van Susteren’s present and mentioned the problem. Joe claimed that his First Amendment rights had been violated by police as a result of he was making a documentary about ladies’s breasts.
You can stream Girls Gone Crazy: The Untold Story now on Peacock.
