Since his Girls Gone Wild franchise has taken off, Joe Francis has been swimming in cash and partying with the biggest celebs of the early aughts. But one night, Riley Perez breaks into Joe’s Bel-Air home, and uses some unconventional tactics. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. To connect with Infamous's creative team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What disturbing content is in this episode?
This episode contains descriptions of violence that may be disturbing for some listeners.
Chapter 2: What happens when Riley breaks into Joe's house?
It's nighttime in the canyons of West L.A. Riley's standing on Bel Air Place.
So, from the street level, you really can't see it. There's only five houses on that street.
This is Joe's house. Quiet cul-de-sac. Just a few other homes.
Across the street is Quincy Jones. He's at 1110 Bel Air.
He says he's creeping in the house through a side door.
I don't hear any chimes for the alarm, so it's all good. I go to look at the alarm keypad and I see that, you know, I didn't trip any alarms.
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Chapter 3: How does Riley plan to confront Joe Francis?
Riley walks right into Joe's modernist house. You know, the glass, the square angles. It's just enormous. More than 6,000 square feet, full in the back.
Two bedrooms upstairs, two downstairs with a big office. It's a house for partying.
But what Riley is about to do is not going to be a party for Joe. Riley says he knows a big mafia figure. And this mafia figure says he has an associate whose daughter has allegedly been wronged by Joe Francis. So Joe has to pay. It won't be a severed horse head in the sheets like the Godfather, but it has to be a message that will scare the shit out of Joe.
This was payback. This is something that had to happen. This was something I was going to enjoy doing. There wasn't much to consider, you know, will I or won't I? It was just a matter at that point of when will I do it?
From Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, I'm Vanessa Grigoriadis, and this is Infamous. We're on episode three of our five-part series, Boy Gone Wild. So last episode, Panama City officials waged war on Joe Francis and those spring break documentaries. He'd been arrested on a whole slew of charges. Pretty serious stuff. And I should say, Joe is denying those allegations.
But a case this high profile takes a long time to wind its way through court. So while he's getting ready to fight the allegations, he's back in L.A., just no cares in the world. He's even at a nightclub when Riley creeps into Bel Air. And now Riley's inside Joe's house. The first thing he has to do is make sure no one else is.
Maybe there was a guest staying there who didn't go out with him.
Remember, this is Riley's account, and Joe issued a blanket denial to all of our questions. As you know, Riley now has in his hand a pink multi-pronged device.
It had gained attention when it was profiled in Sex and the City.
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Chapter 4: What shocking demand does Riley make to Joe?
I look around for a couple of other things that were on my list.
Riley's talking about things that could be valuable, that Joe might want back later. Girls Gone Wild master DV tapes, some types of paperwork.
Make some copies of a couple of his files, a couple of things that could be of interest going forward. Banking records, names of companies, how he was hiding his money.
Riley has been in the house for a while.
I waited. I waited. I give my updates. He's still at the club. We figure he's going to be leaving any minute because he does have an early flight to Mexico the next day. It's a good three to five minute drive of windy roads from the point of him turning off of Sunset to get to his home. We knew that that night he was in his Ferrari. He arrives home about 1230. I hear the gate open.
He comes pulling in. I hear his footsteps. Once he stepped through the door and I heard it close behind him. I had a little flash grenade and I screamed out, freeze police. I've known this even with guys in the criminal world, gangsters. If you draw down on them saying, freeze police, they think maybe it is the cops.
You just bought yourself two to five seconds of them being stunned where you can hop on them. I put cuffs on him. He's not saying anything. He's just shocked. Now, I had a gun, and if you have a gun, the gun has one purpose. It's to kill him. All right, the secondary purpose is to scare him to comply with your demand. But was I prepared to kill him? Yes. That's why I had the gun.
As soon as he came in the door, I could have just killed him. But that's not what I wanted to do, but I knew that that could happen. I have him cuffed, and now he's my captive. Now I have a mask on, like a ski mask on that covers my nose. And I have a beanie cap. You can see my eyes, but that's it. I put a black knapsack around his head. He's afraid. He wants to know why.
Almost immediately, he started asking me, did Muhammad send you?
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Chapter 5: What video does Riley decide to film with Joe?
In a sec, you're going to hear our writer Natalie talking to Riley.
Wait, sorry, to clarify, so the dildo just is between his butt cheeks but never up his butt?
Never up his butt. Okay. Too far. I turn the camera back on and I zoom in tight on his face. The reason I'm tight on him is so anyone viewing the video won't see that his hands are tied. So I pan from his face and I go down around his hands to the camera showing the dildo in his butt back to him. Joe had made his money was exploiting women.
When a girl gets wild, what does that mean?
Young girls that are most of the time high, drunk. And it gets them on film and he's the one that profits from it. They get a trucker hat or a t-shirt.
You're going to give me a t-shirt that says girls going wild.
So to be able to get him on video reciting the phrase that he has the girls recite, yeah, that was a gift that, you know, kept on giving.
More after the break.
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Chapter 6: How does Joe react during the confrontation?
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Back in Joe's big house in Bel Air, Joe's Boy Gone Wild video has been made.
Once I cut the camera off, I turn the lights back off, and he's now back in the dark. The hood goes back over his head. I take him back to the safe. All of a sudden, he now knows the combination to the safe. He doesn't know what's going to happen next. He figures, all right, let me give it up. I do the combination. Bang. There's a couple of watches in there.
There's some nice amount of cash in there. I'll just take that for... My time, gas is high anyway, why not? Now I'm thinking, what will the cops think when he eventually makes his claim? There had already been plenty of burglaries all throughout Bel Air. So I'm going to make this also look like a burglary. That's one of the goals is to just have him at fear.
Like he's thinking the entire time that Muhammad sent someone. So I just want him at fear. He can think of who it is. Who may I have fucked over? So that was the goal, is just to keep him in the dark as to who sent me, who I am. All throughout the ordeal, he kept saying, I know Muhammad sent you. Just tell me. Whatever he's paying you, I'll pay you more.
Riley ignores Joe. He takes him downstairs.
I had a two-way radio, and I had a throwaway phone. I didn't want to have my cell phone with me, and I pinged off of one of the towers, and now they got my location if I ever got arrested. I'm talking with my guys on the throwaway phone, and they're walkie-talkie, and we're going back and forth. We're coordinating my exit. I walk them out to the Bentley, put them in the backseat face down,
Riley hops in the front and drives out of Joe's property through the gate, the proper way out. He's on the windy, quiet streets of Bel Air.
Joe's in the backseat. I have my guy in his car ahead of us, and he's guiding us now.
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