AP Photo/Peter Kramer
This Jan. 18, 2009 file photo shows Joe Francis at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire is upping the ante in a legal dispute over a $2 million casino debt with Las Vegas Strip casino mogul Steve Wynn and the Wynn Las Vegas resort, alleging that an effort to criminally prosecute Francis for failure to pay a casino IOU in 2007 amounted to malicious prosecution, defamation, conspiracy and abuse of process.
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