Joe Francis — I’m Innocent … And I Have Video Evidence!
Joe Francis insists he never laid a hand on the chick who claims the ” Girls Gone Wild ” honcho assaulted her in his Hollywood mansion — telling TMZ, he even has security footage to PROVE he’s innocent. Joe tells us, he has THREE surveillance cameras that captured the 3-woman altercation at his home back in January — from several different angles — and he wasn’t involved. According to Francis, two of the girls were fighting EACH OTHER — and all three were escorted out of his house for being unruly. It’s a drastically different story from what the girls told police — that Francis grabbed one of them by the throat and hair, and slammed her head into the tiled floor of his house … four times. Francis was charged with one count of assault causing great bodily injury as a result — in addition to three counts of false imprisonment and one count of dissuading a witness from filing a police report. But Francis insists it’s all BS — telling us, there wasn’t even a tiled floor anywhere near the scene of the fight. TMZ spoke to two other people at Francis’ home that night — and both are prepared to testify in Joe’s defense. Interesting side note: the City Attorney who charged Francis is currently prepping to run for D.A. — and Joe believes the entire case is politically motivated.