# Girls Gone Wild?  Now they're just gone.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-gone-wild-now-theyre-just-gone/651762>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 1, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-gone-wild-now-theyre-just-gone/651762 "2013-03-01T21:09:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-gone-wild-now-theyre-just-gone/651762/1 "2013-03-01T21:09:58Z")

</div>

If you care, here’s here’s the [USAToday story](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/28/girls-gone-wild-bankruptcy/1954419/).

> [@](#):
>
> GGW founder Joe Francis has lost high-profile lawsuits that have saddled his firm, GGW Brands, with more than $13 million in jury awards and $2 million in other debts. It listed its assets at less than $50,000.
> 
> He owes casino mogul Steve Wynn $10.3 million, including a $7.5 million slander award last year and a disputed $2 million gambling debt.
> 
> A St. Louis woman sued Francis’ company in 2008 to collect $5.8 million she was awarded after claiming someone exposed her breasts in a bar for the \*Girls Gone Wild Sorority Orgy \*series.

More at link.

I think that they eventually went pretty hardcore, but I remember them from the early titty tease days and that was only because in the 90’s their late night ads were like video VD - almost impossible to avoid. And even back then I thought the idea of actually \*paying \*for porn was just hilarious.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-gone-wild-now-theyre-just-gone/651762/2 "2013-03-01T21:14:50Z")

</div>

I thought bankruptcy didn’t apply to judgments.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-gone-wild-now-theyre-just-gone/651762/3 "2013-03-01T21:28:21Z")

</div>

I know that there are different flavors and some are designed just to give you some breathing room. I don’t thing Chapter 11 is one of those but I don’t know.

And I think you’re right about the judgments, but I got the impression those are mostly against Francis. If Ch. 11 is a death sentence for the corporation, then I would think that death has to be the ultimate arbiter of all debts, but that just a WAG.