5 chilling revelations from Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story 

Peacock's latest addition, Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, is a three-part documentary series that premiered on December 3, 2024. The documentary exposes the sinister underbelly of late-night infomercials from the 1990s.

It depicts the franchise's ascent and decline and its dark secrets. Additionally, it has interviews with the site's creator and former workers who will provide their perspectives.

If you’ve already watched this three-part docuseries, here are five chilling revelations from the show.

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5 shocking details from Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story

1) Many of Girls Gone Wild's girls were allegedly abused by the company's creator

Although Joe Francis, the site's creator, maintains that he has never inappropriately touched anyone or coerced someone into engaging in se*ual activity, others, including the former cinematographer of the adult website and its staff, have accused him of assault.

Francis allegedly coerced two of the girls connected to the website into engaging in se*ual acts. Even though one of the two girls stated above didn't consent to it, Francis allegedly forced her to touch his genitalia. In 2023, the victim reported the same incident to Panama City Police.

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2) Numerous young girls were coerced into filming explicit sequences

The majority of the girls employed by Girls Gone Wild, an adult entertainment franchise were allegedly underage. When the franchise was raided in 2003, many clips of young females were discovered. Following the raid, staff members of the adult entertainment franchise were observed filming themselves to remain more vigilant. They were seen verifying the identities of the women they were photographing and ensuring they were not minors.

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3) Joe Francis is a free man now

In 2011, the founder/creator of the adult entertainment website Girls Gone Wild was arrested for locking up three women in his Hollywood house and even assaulting one of them. He was also sentenced to 270 days in prison. But in 2015, he left the United States and moved to Mexico, where he currently resides in a massive apartment in Punta Mita that is 45,000 square feet in size.

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4) Several women were allegedly coerced into making se*ual films on the franchise bus

The majority of the s*xual acts that the adult entertainment franchise allegedly recorded were not consensual. The women were supposedly coerced into doing this. A woman named Janet said in the documentary series that the majority of the sequences were filmed on the franchise bus.

"Whatever they could say, they would say it to get you on that bus.”

Another girl who worked for the franchise claimed that one of the cameramen made her perform se*ual acts on the same bus forcefully. In Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, she revealed how scared she was at that time, and said:

“I felt like if I didn’t comply, things could go really badly for me."

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5) The women were exploited massively by the staff

A 2005 audio recording leak that included Girls Gone Wild senior staff members urging their junior staff to coerce the site's female employees into engaging in se*xual acts was a significant revelation in the documentary series. When filming intimate scenes, the cinematographer and staff were allegedly told not to accept no as an answer and to coerce the women into doing so.

The leaked audio clip played in Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story features a person identified as the vice president of Mantra Films saying:

“We want to avoid what we see a lot of, which is just the camera goes on, the girl flashes the camera, the camera goes off, and that’s all we got. We go to the tape and it’s like, ‘That can’t be all we’ve got. That’s not what we want, We want a longer scene.'”

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Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story is now streaming on Peacock.