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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'girlsgonewild'

August 13, 2008

The Girls Gone Wild employee accused of sexually assaulting a woman last week aboard a GGW bus was released; Newsday reports it's "because no indictment was filed within the time limit for a felony charge." Michael O'Sullivan, who did not need to post the $100,000 cash bail, was in Smithtown to film part of the GGW's Wildest Bar video. The Suffolk DA's office said, "After reviewing the facts and circumstances of Mr. O'Sullivan's arrest, the......

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August 7, 2008

Early yesterday morning, a woman stopped a police car in Smithtown, Long Island, claiming she was sexually assaulted on a Girls Gone Wild bus. Police ended up arresting the GGW crew supervisor Matthew O'Sullivan and charging him with first degree sexual assault\. Girls Gone Wild is currently looking for the wildest bars, and the crew had been filming a wet T-shirt contest at Nubar tavern. Apparently O'Sullivan asked a 20-year-old woman at the bar (not......

Continue Reading "Girls Gone Wild Employee Pleads Not Guilty in Sexual Assault"

August 6, 2008

The Girls Gone Wild bus rolled into Smithtown, Long Island yesterday and the crew's taping ended when a woman flagged down cops, saying she had been sexually assaulted. According to Fox 5, a male production company staffer was arrested. The GGW bus had been parked outside of nubar on Route 25--Newsday explained that GGW "was on Long Island in search of wild bars" and WABC 7 clarifies it was for the "Wildest bar in America."......

Continue Reading "Arrest Ends Girls Gone Wild Taping on Long Island"

July 5, 2008

When a Girls Gone Wild video surfaced featuring Ashley Alexandra Dupre, aka the expensive hooker who serviced Eliot Spitzer, Dupre quickly moved to sue the GGW operation and founder Joe Francis for $10 million, claiming she was under 18 in the video. But then Francis fired back, by releasing a video showing Dupre saying she is over 18. Now her lawyer says she's dropping the lawsuit and will "focus on the positive." A statement released......

Continue Reading "Spitzer Hooker Drops Lawsuit Against Girls Gone Wild"

April 30, 2008

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis answered a $10 million lawsuit by releasing a video showing Ashley Dupre giving an assumed name AND claiming she was 18. Dupré, the hooker made notorious because of her connection with former Governor Spitzer, had sued GGW for the millions, claiming she was underage in a video the company released shortly after the Spitzer scandal broke. Here's how AP describes the new video:In the new release, Dupre appears......

Continue Reading "Girls Gone Wild Says Ashley Dupré Was 18 in Video"

April 28, 2008

First she nabs Mariah Carey's old manager to represent her. Now Ashley Dupré, also known as "Kristen," the hooker who serviced former governor Eliot Spitzer, is suing Joe Francis and his "Girls Gone Wild" operation for $10 million in damages. She says the GGW video was taken when she was underage. People.com reports, "Dupré alleges that Girls Gone Wild representatives approached her while she was vacationing in Florida in 2003, offered her alcohol and......

Continue Reading "Spitzer Hooker Ashley Dupré Sues Joe Francis"

March 20, 2008

Uh oh, Joe Francis! The lawyer for Governor Spitzer's call girl says she was only 17 when she made a Girls Gone Wild video a few years ago. Apparently Ashley Alexandra Dupre (known to Spitzer as "Kristen") only turned 18 a month after the video was shot. Lawyer Don Buchwald wrote in an e-mail Dupre was kicked off the GGW bus "because she was underage...It would be outrageous at the very least to play the......

Continue Reading "Spitzer Hooker Maybe Only 17 in 'Wild' Video"

March 19, 2008

Above images from Girls Gone Wild, below image from the Post Leave it to Joe Francis to make sure Hookergate stays dirty! The Girls Gone Wild founder told the Daily News, "We have some really great footage of Ashley. She was really into girl-on-girl action." The News reports that initially Francis was offering $1 million to Ashely Alexandra Dupre, aka "Kristen," the "American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5-feet-5 inches and 105 pounds" hooker who......

Continue Reading ""Kristen" Gone Wild: Spitzer Hooker's Naughty Tape"

July 8, 2007

The Post got varying opinions from neighbors of Peter Barta, the Legal Aid lawyer accused of secretly videotaping his female colleagues. Barta was charged with four counts of unlawful surveillance and six counts of attempted unlawful surveillance after he allegedly planted a Sharper Image Security Camcorder Clock in his colleagues' offices to film them while they changed in their offices for the gym or court appearances. Barta, who was on the Stuyvesant High School debating......

Continue Reading "Legal Aid Peeping Tom: "Nice," "Has An Attitude""

August 15, 2006

-- The city has seized control of the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene. After their huge successes in the WTC, West Side Rail, and Brooklyn Yards projects, what could go wrong? -- Did you know that Ocean Parkway was the first bike path in America? It's getting a facelift this year. -- But wait, there's more: Ron Popeil's Biography episode is on tonight! -- Shaolin's Mid-Island team is going to the Little League......

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May 27, 2004

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