Joe Francis sentenced to 270 days in jail as well as to a 3-year probation period for assaulting a woman in his Los Angeles mansion on Aug. 27, RumorFix confirmed Tuesday.
According to The Los Angeles Times, 'Girls Gone Wild' creator Joe Francis allegedly choked a woman and banged her head to the ground in 2011.
Joe Francis was convicted of 5 charges composed of discouraging an eyewitness from exposing his crime, three counts of false imprisonment, and one of physical assault and harm. He was convicted in May and is now to serve jail time and proceed with a 3-year probation period for counseling and anger management, reported CBS News.
"Mr. Francis is really a danger to the community," Deputy City Attorney Mitchell Fox told CBS Los Angeles. "He's had his way with ability to force people to comply with his wishes, he physically has been violent with people."
A Los Angeles Times report explained that Joe Francis grabbed the victimized woman after meeting her and two other women at the Supper Club. He then pushed the woman inside his lime and the other two followed inside as well.
In a statement given by the involved women, they said that they were under the impression that Joe Francis was giving them a ride, adding that Francis' bodyguards showed them fake badges and before they knew it they were already brought inside his mansion.
Authorities shared that Joe Francis got into a fight with them when he tried to lead one of them away from the other two, adding that the 'Girls Gone Wild' creator grabbed one of them by her neck and forcefully slammed her head against the concrete floor.
Another report stated that despite threatened by Joe Francis not to leak out the incident to the police, the three women reported it to the authorities after they left Joe Francis' mansion in a cab.
Meanwhile, Joe Francis told TMZ that the sentence was "absurd" after appealing to the court's decision while maintaining his claim of being innocent.
"I'm confident the legal system will course-correct and I am 100 percent innocent," Joe Francis said to the news cameras outside the court room. "There's no way I ever forced anyone to get into this car."
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