girls gone… really bad?

This past Sunday in between checking my email and vegging, I began to watch a VH1 show all about people who have tried to extort money out of celebrities by using many different methods of extortion.  The one story I found I thought was a good topic to write about for this class.  It involved Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis and Paris Hilton.  One night upon entering his residence, Francis was attacked, held at gun point, bound with duct tape, and forced to repeat the words “I’m from Boys Gone Wild and I like it in the ass,” all of which was being caught on tape with the purpose of using it later to extort Francis.  He was then thrown into the back of his Bentley, driven to town, and left under the threat that if he got the police involved, he would be killed.  After freeing himself he went straight to the police.  Phone taps were placed on his phone lines and captured the extortionist’s attempts to extort over $3 million out of the millionaire.  Some time later, Paris Hilton’s apartment was broken into with various tapes of her doing sexual things with former boyfriend Nick Carter.  It was later that Paris Hilton told Francis that she had overheard a man named Darnell Riley, an ex-con who did time for murder and had somehow penetrated the Hollywood celebrity scene, discussing how he and an accomplice were responsible for the attack on Francis’s Bel Air mansion.  Francis went to the police and Riley was arrested.  Riley copped to one count of robbery and one count of attempted extortion.  He was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in state prison.  I am not sure if I just wasn’t paying attention to the news, or that I just missed this story, but when I heard it I found it interesting and something that was related to porn and this class.