Usmagazine.com | Joe Francis: "It Doesn't Matter" If Ashley Dupre Was Underage
Joe Francis: "It Doesn't Matter" If Ashley Dupre Was Underage
Thursday March 20, 2008
March 12, 2008; February 10, 2005
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Girls Gone Wild founder and CEO Joe Francis can't wait to tap interest in Ashley Dupre, the high-price call girl who serviced Eliot Spitzer.
"We can't get a DVD together fast enough," he told Usmagazine.com. "Her candle is going to burn out pretty quickly, especially after we release our footage."
On Tuesday, Francis publicly offered Dupre a $1 million deal for a Girls Gone Wild photo shoot and tour. While he was haggling with her lawyers, Girls Gone Wild tapes of Dupre from 2003 were unearthed and the deal was called off.
"She wanted more money and less of what we wanted," he tells Us.
"Our footage is from when she was 18-years-old, and it doesn't get much better than that," he proclaims. "Eliot Spitzer has put some miles on that girl!"
Francis plans to sell footage of Dupre – that was taken over a weeklong shoot in Miami when she turned 18 – on girlsgonewild.com, with a trial view costing $4.95.
"She's doing Girls Gone Wild-typical [stuff]: dancing around naked and flashing her breasts," he says.
As for reports Dupre was underage during the Girls Gone Wild shoot, Francis says, "It doesn't matter. There's no sexual contact, so even if she was 17 or 16 for that matter, federal and state law permits posing nude. We're just talking about nudity, not pornography."
Click here for Us' exclusive gallery of Dupre's first escort modeling shoot and here for more topless celebs.
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