You know the economy is really bad when even the Porn Industry is taking a hit.    Flynt of Hustler and Francis of Girls Gone Wild has the nerve to ask for a bailout.  Though the porn industry tends to be popular in congress.   DVD sales are down 22% from last year, ouch!

“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt says. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”

Francis said “Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration.”

This issue is so important to Francis that he is going to D.C. to personally deal with this situation.

Video of Joe Francis

Ashley Alexandrea Dupre has decided to drop her $10 million lawsuit against Joe Francis on Thursday, July 3rd. She claims that the dropped was a way to “eliminate all negativity from her life and focus on the positive.” According to her lawyer Richard C. Wolfe,

She has prospects for many exciting new projects and is looking forward to stating a new chapter.

Dupre was suing Joe Francis, who is the founder of Mantra Films, Inc the company that produces Girls Gone Wild, after he planned on capitalizing off of some footage of Dupre celebrating her 18th birthday with GGW. Francis had originally offered Dupre $1 million to join GGW but retracted his offer once he discovered that she had already appeared on the show in 2003.

Friday night Francis issued a statement saying, “the truth invariably comes out, as I knew it would in this case. I am happy to, once again, be completely vindicated.”

Ashley Dupre filed a lawsuit yesterday against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis for $10 million for exploiting her name and image for profit.

Dupre claims that while vacationing in Florida in 2003, GGW reps came up to her and offered her alcohol before inducing her to expose her breasts and sign a wavier.  All of this while she was underage- 17.

Joe Francis is “amazed” that she is suing him because the tape was never released because she was underage at the time.  He does say that it “doesn’t matter” if she was underage, since she showed false identification and claimed to be older:

“It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupré could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification,” Francis told Usmagazine.com…“She’s seeking $10 Million for topless photos taken in front of a room full of people, including two newspapers and multiple crews we had in the room,” he said. “These images were taken in public places and contain no sexual contact. We expect to triumph in this matter and continue to offer the best and hottest girls.”

Joe Francis has just recently been released from Nevada jail last month and continues to be facing federal tax evasion charges in that state.

He is currently being charged in Florida for allegedly filming underage girls in Panama City. He claims that he is not liable because the girls lied about their ages.

Dupre has not made a public appearance since the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke 6 weeks ago.  She has ambitions of becoming a pop star, and is said to have received over $200,000 for downloads of her songs. The NY Daily News reports today that she has a new manager for her music career and is shopping around for a label that will have her. Her Myspace has received over 10 million views.

The founder of GGW, Joe Francis, cancelled his $1 million offer after he was informed by a Daily News reporter that Ashley had already been featured on GGW. Francis searched the company’s archives and was happy to find out that Dupre appeared in the 2003 GGW Spring Break. Ashley Dupre had been celebrating her 18th birthday when she discovered the GGW bus and joined the crew for an entire week.  How old is she now? 22?  So, that’s 4 years since the video footage of one of her first whoring exploits…

Francis has compared this turn of events to “finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch.”

“A Daily News reporter just saved me a million bucks,” Francis stated; “Mark that down as the first time a reporter ever did anything good for me.” In regards to the video footage, Francis says, “I’ve got it all. Topless, her nude in the shower, making out with other girls. She rode theGGW bus for a week.”

So, I’ve just gotta wonder, what’s up with a reporter than remembers a chick from a GGW video?  Kinda creeptastic if you ask me!

The crazy Kardashian family is back for another season on E!’s Keeping up with the Kardashian’s! This Ryan Seacrest produced show is pretty hilarious… We got a chance to celebrate the kickoff of the show with a party at the hot spot Les Deux last night (the place where Kim celebrated her birthday several months back too).

Most of the family attended this big bash (minus brother Robert and the two boyfriends of the girls Reggie Bush and Scott Disick). The girls all looked incredible (as you can see in the pics). I got a chance to talk to Kris Jenner and Kourtney for a while about the website we just built for them www.smoochkids.com.   They both “love it” and are so proud to show it off!   Kourtney especially really put a lot of effort and input into the site development to make sure it was something she could be proud of.

I also spoke to Kris Jenner about her recent outing on Robertson with Kim where photos caught pictures of them in Kris’ Range Rover with a handicap sign dangling from her rear view mirror. A lot of tabloid sites were criticizing her for the handicap decal, stating that now that they’re famous, they are getting special treatment. She was frustrated by this and said: “you will see in one of the upcoming episodes that I go into emergency knee surgery; so hopefully that will clear up these rumors.”

Also at the Les Deux event was Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild, making one of his first public appearances fresh out of jail.

Oh, & did I mention how gorgeous the Kardashian girls looked? haha…

You won’t see a lot of pics of this party or any paparazzi photos circulating because there wasn’t a lot of press at the event and the Les Deux staff kicked all the paparazzi of the premises.

And the offers just keep on coming in for the celebrity hooker.Guess who from this time? None other than Mr. Girls Gone Wild himself Joe Francis. He was just released from jail some hundred hours or so ago and he’s already back to business. Apparently she was offered $1MILLION to appear in Hustler and now Joe is matching the offer to launch his new Girls Gone Wild Magazine. AND…. wants her as the host foe the new Girls Gone Wild national tour. craziness!!!