How big is the gambling debt that Joe Francis has been ordered to pay?
GIRLS GONE WILD creator JOE FRANCIS has been ordered to pay off a $2 million (£1.2 million) gambling debt. Bosses at casino resort Wynn Las Vegas, who took the porn mogul to court over the outstanding money, argued that he had refused to cooperate at a court deposition in February (09). He was accused of disrespecting the legal proceedings by passing gas while testifying and refusing to admit whether he had a cell phone – despite answering a call on his phone. And when Francis was asked if he could understand English during the proceedings, he read aloud the Fifth Amendment from the Bill of Rights, which allows him to refuse to testify, from a card handed to him by a lawyer. He also pleaded the Fifth when asked about his earlier allegations that Wynn bosses had provided him with prostitutes to increase his gambling debts in February 2007, declining to answer whether they were male or female or if he’d had sex with them. But attorneys for the gambling firm argued the adult filmmaker had
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