Guards at the Grady County Law Enforcement Center denied Joe Francis food and blankets and threatened to strap him naked to a chair for 48 hours, Francis' attorneys alleged last month in court papers seeking his release on bail in a Florida case, The Oklahoman reported. Francis, 34, was held at the jail from May 17 to June 4 while being moved from a Florida jail to a federal facility in Reno, Nev. Grady County officials denied the accusations, telling the newspaper that guards never threatened to strap Francis to a chair, that Francis had an extra blanket he shouldn't have had confiscated and that his transfer was delayed because his family had somehow found out when he was to have been moved, creating a potential security risk. Francis was treated like every inmate that comes through the Grady County Law Enforcement Center," jail administrator Shane Wyatt told the newspaper. Francis has made millions of dollars with the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, which feature young women in sexually provocative situations. He has been in jail since April, when he was cited for contempt after yelling at attorneys during mediation in a federal lawsuit brought by women who were underage when his production company filmed them in

IT'S that time of year again spring break -- and this means another busy season for ''Girls Gone Wild. And, as usual, plenty of girls obliged. This time around, though, the crew approached men, too, asking them to drop their pants for a new video series, ''Guys Gone Wild,'' a product of uncertain market appeal that will be introduced as an experiment this summer. Why not? He mooned the camera in a hotel hallway but asked that his last name not be used, explaining that being naked on tape could come back to haunt him.

It turns out Joe Francis isn't the only one interested in catching impaired co-eds flashing smiles and more on the beach. An investor group led by Liquidity Capital made the offer for Girls Gone Wild back in February, agreeing to a deal that also includes the assumption of some of the company's liabilities. When no competing bids came forward by earlier this month, the company's bankruptcy trustee, R.