This Guy's Gone Wild

摘要

Joe francis is a tough guy to avoid. Flick on late-night TV and you'll be bombarded with the not-so-subtle ads for his Girls Gone Wild videotapes, which feature cheesy, low-budget footage of tipsy coeds flashing for the camera. In the four years since Francis first started showing up at Mardi Gras parties and spring-break beach bashes, enticing young women to bare all in exchange for a T shirt, the tapes have become wildly popular. Frat boys proudly play the videos at parties. Justin Timberlake and Brad Pitt sport GIRLS GONE WILD caps around town. The tapes have also made Francis, a former TV production assistant who maxed out his credit cards to start the company, a very rich man. He's moved millions of tapes, and built GGW into an empire reportedly worth $100 million. Donald Trump gushes about Francis, hailing him as a "great entrepreneur."