By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 10/2/10 10:10 PM EDT
World Wrestling Entertainment, the company that Connecticut Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon served as CEO for years, once teamed up with Joe Francis' seedy ‘Girls Gone Wild’ enterprise for a pay-per-view event. The off-color show featured partly-nude women and some of the WWE’s wrestling personalities.
McMahon has cited her tenure as CEO of the company as one of her qualifiers for elected office, but has spent time answering questions about some of the more lurid aspects of the business she’s downplayed as a soap opera.
WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman told POLITICO that the event was a one-time occurrence, for mature audiences, and that the firm has since gone from a TV-14 rating to a TV-PG one.
We have an incredible partnership with the WWE,” Joe Francis, who founded the production company behind Girls Gone Wild and who spent time in jail on charges that he and the company didn’t properly document the ages of some of the young girls who exposed themselves in their videos, was quoted saying in the Hollywood Reporter in February 2003. “They own the pay-per-view space, so there's no better people to be in business with.
McMahon's company wanted to reach a younger male audience that was starting to drift.
The WWE had already started to use some material from the video series. The promos would typically feature young women exposing themselves.
Francis has said he he’d personally played in one of the WWE shows, a character named Raw, with McMahon’s husband, Vince.
It's real girls and there's nothing else like it. I like girls and I really like them naked and I thought other guys would, too,” Francis was quoted telling the Monitor of South Texas.
The shows were set to go to Panama City, FL, and two other locations. But the mayor of Panama City threatened to arrest everyone involved if the pay-per-view extravaganza went on.
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McMahon has cited her tenure as CEO of the company as one of her qualifiers for elected office, but has spent time answering questions about some of the more lurid aspects of the business she’s downplayed as a soap opera.
WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman told POLITICO that the event was a one-time occurrence, for mature audiences, and that the firm has since gone from a TV-14 rating to a TV-PG one.
We have an incredible partnership with the WWE,” Joe Francis, who founded the production company behind Girls Gone Wild and who spent time in jail on charges that he and the company didn’t properly document the ages of some of the young girls who exposed themselves in their videos, was quoted saying in the Hollywood Reporter in February 2003. “They own the pay-per-view space, so there's no better people to be in business with.
McMahon's company wanted to reach a younger male audience that was starting to drift.
The WWE had already started to use some material from the video series. The promos would typically feature young women exposing themselves.
Francis has said he he’d personally played in one of the WWE shows, a character named Raw, with McMahon’s husband, Vince.
It's real girls and there's nothing else like it. I like girls and I really like them naked and I thought other guys would, too,” Francis was quoted telling the Monitor of South Texas.
The shows were set to go to Panama City, FL, and two other locations. But the mayor of Panama City threatened to arrest everyone involved if the pay-per-view extravaganza went on.
Don't you just love this example of Republican Family Values?
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