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Jan 23, 2007 9:11 am US/Eastern

Girls Gone Wild Mogul Joe Francis Sentenced

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) ― The man behind the sexually charged "Girls Gone Wild" videos received a fine of $500,000 Monday and was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service for violating record-keeping requirements designed to prevent exploitation of minors.

Joe Francis, 33, will also serve two years of probation, which is wrapped into a deal with the Justice Department that also resolved a similar case brought in Florida against his Santa Monica-based company, Mantra Films Inc.

In the previous case the production company received a $1.6 million fine.

In pleading guilty to a pair of felony counts, Francis acknowledged he knowingly included footage of two girls in the third and fourth volumes of his company's "Ultimate Spring Break" video series, without legible documentation of their ages.

Prosecutors allege the 2002 footage captured two 17-year-old females engaging in sexually explicit acts.

(© 2007 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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