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'Girls Gone Wild' founder's trial moved to L.A.


April 14, 2008 The tax evasion trial of "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been moved to Los Angeles by a federal judge. A federal grand jury in Reno indicted Francis, 35, and his companies, Mantra Films Inc. and Sands Media Inc., in April 2007, on two counts of tax evasion. Francis has built a soft porn empire filming and marketing videos of young women exposing their breasts and being shown in other sexually provocative situations.

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