“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis shared images Thursday on Instagram, claiming he was brutalized in an elaborate extortion plot.
The images posted to social media show apparent injuries on his face, leg and foot.
“A sick person is trying to extort me for money threatening to release these police photos above and info they stupidly believe will harm me if they were made public. Well, they can go F#CK them themselves!!! I don’t pay extortion money, and I am releasing everything myself right now,” Francis wrote in the lengthy social media caption. He went on to claim he was being watched by his bodyguard while on a jog in an affluent area near Bill Gates’ house when a group of masked and armed men attacked him.
“I had my bodyguard following me in my Mercedes at the time and out of nowhere, 8 masked men with guns grabbed me and pulled me in the bushes at gunpoint, robbed me, tied me up and beat me taking my cell phone and my money and the contents in my car as well as drove off with my vehicle and my bodyguard,” Francis wrote on Instagram.
The “Girls Gone Wild” founder claimed the bodyguard drove the men to his home and burglarized the house while he was “bound and gagged.”
“This was obviously an inside job because my bodyguard MIGUEL JIMENEZ OLMOS, drove away with the assailants, stealing my car, my money, my phone, and my belongings from my home,” he wrote.
Francis alleged the Punta Mita Development’s security refused to contact police or transport him to the hospital because they feared bad publicity.
“I walked on my own without assistance almost 1 mile to the Punta Mita Hospital,” he wrote.
Francis alleged this was when things took another dramatic turn. He claimed the hospital forced him into an unnecessary medically induced coma, for the sake of profit.
Joe Francis and Athena Lundberg during The Girls Gone Wild Halftime Games – Training, Rehearsal and Photocall at Girls Gone Wild Island in Girls Gone Wild Island. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage for Girls Gone Wild ) Getty Images
“The hospital assessed my injuries which consisted of an extremely bruised eye, a fractured rib, cuts and bruises that I sustained from the attack, as well as small fracture on my face. Nothing life-threatening. NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL were in my system,” Francis wrote to social media.
“I was a VICTIM of medical kidnaping, Medical FRAUD, and attempted murder by the Punta Mita Hospital which is owned by Los Angeles Doctor, Dr. Sam Najmabadi,” he claimed.
“I was drugged without my consent and I woke up at the Punta Mita Hospital 2 weeks later not being able to walk, and not knowing what happened. I thought I was paralyzed because I had no feeling from the neck down. I was lied to by the doctors at the Punta Mita Hospital and told that I arrived at the hospital unconscious and they had saved my life. LOL. This was a total lie,” Francis alleged.
The former head of the adult entertainment franchise went on to accuse the hospital of deliberate malpractice. “[T]hey knew that I had insurance and they knew that I had money so they stashed me in the back of the hospital and kept me in a medically induced coma, pumping general anesthesia, propofol, (the same drug that killed Michael Jackson), fentanyl, and 12 other deadly medication ‘s into my bloodstream, keeping me unconscious 24 HOURS A DAY.”
Paris Hilton and Joe Francis, CEO of Girls Gone Wild during Girls Gone Wild’s Annual Mardi Gras Party (Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage) Getty Images
“Remember that I was a conscious patient who walked to the hospital on my own to treat my MINOR injuries. There was absolutely no medical reason to put me in an unnecessary ‘medically induced coma,” Francis reiterated his earlier accusation.
He went on to say his insurance company has since sued the hospital and that Mexican authorities “have criminally charged the Doctors (Including Dr. Sam Najmabadi) with attempted murder, medical fraud and kidnaping.” (RELATED: Famous Singer Duffy Breaks Silence Three Years After Kidnapping)
“As far as my former bodyguard, MIGUEL JIMENEZ OLMOS, He is still on the run,” he concluded.
