Not backing down. Joe Francis just lately got here beneath hearth after he shared a throwback photograph of himself “trying out” a then 18-year-old Kylie Jenner — and the Ladies Gone Wild founder doesn’t see the issue.
“Joyful Birthday @kyliejenner!! I’m so pleased with you and all of your success!!” Francis, 49, wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 10. “It looks as if yesterday that we had been celebrating your 18th birthday collectively [at the Casa Aramara resort in Punta de Mita, Mexico] ❤️🎉🍾💕.”
The photograph, which was meant to have fun Jenner, 25, turning one other 12 months older, seemingly featured the Georgia native glancing down on the Kylie Beauty founder’s bottom whereas they partied with pals on a yacht in 2015.
Social media customers shortly took to the remark part to query Francis’ image alternative, with one particular person writing, “You didn’t have a greater image — one the place you weren’t checking her out?”
Francis, nevertheless, shortly defended his actions, claiming in a now-deleted reply that “all straight males are taking a look at stunning girls.”
He added, “That’s why I’m so profitable. Are you saying you hate God for making us this fashion? No different straight man is totally different or ladies gone wild wouldn’t have made billions of {dollars}.”
The filmmaker then claimed the commenter was “the creepy one” and that Jenner is “like a sister” to him. “Why would you even assume that? I used thus far her sister @kourtneykardash,” he wrote. “I’ve three sisters too. I might by no means ever have intercourse with my sisters. That’s gross!!”
Through the years, Francis has confronted numerous authorized points. In 2011, he was arrested and charged with three counts of false imprisonment, one rely of assault inflicting nice bodily damage and one rely of dissuading a witness after he allegedly attacked one other lady and bashed her head into his tile ground, based on NBC information.
In April, a sneak peek of TNT’s new anthology sequence Wealthy & Well-known alleged that Francis “tricked” girls into “a baby pornography movie” for his Ladies Gone Wild franchise.
On the time Francis’ newest Instagram snap was taken, Jenner was courting rapper Tyga, who was allegedly additionally on the birthday journey. Nevertheless, the 2 known as it quits in 2017 and the California native moved on with Travis Scott. The pair share two youngsters collectively, daughter Stormi and a son, who they welcomed in 2018 and 2022, respectively.
Lately, Stormi — and her child brother — have turn into the primary focus of the Kardashians star and Cactus Jack founder, although a supply advised Us Weekly in Could that the twosome have “not dominated [a potential engagement] out” of the equation.
“The precedence has been about caring for the youngsters,” the insider defined to Us on the time. “Holding issues between themselves calm and chilled and establishing boundaries that may give them the most effective probability of staying collectively in the long run … She does like her independence however can’t think about herself long-term with anybody aside from Travis.”
