“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,…