Infamous: Boy Gone Wild

Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 9 a.m.

b'Joe Francis made a fortune on a simple concept: get drunken women to flash the camera for his direct-to-DVD series \\u201cGirls Gone Wild.\\u201d When the filming stopped the debauchery continued, as Francis allegedly coerced sex from the women\\u2026some of whom were underaged. Local authorities wanted to protect the victims and put a stop to the filming. Francis remained defiant, until the night an armed man broke into his Bel-Air home to give him a taste of his own medicine.\\n\\nIn the five-part podcast \\u201cInfamous: Boy Gone Wild,\\u201d* host Vanessa Grigoriadis recounts her early days covering the show for Rolling Stone and the legal troubles Francis would later find himself in. It\\u2019s part profile of a vile libertine and part commentary on what constitutes exploitation.\\n\\n*The title of this series has also been listed as "Infamous: Girls Gone Wild."'