Lawsuits gone wild: Steve Wynn sues Joe Francis for slander

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe ‘Meatstick’ Francis shoulda known better, but with a nickname like ‘Meatstick’, perhaps not. In April, during a lawsuit filed by one of Steve Wynn’s casinos over Francis’ unpaid gambling debts, Francis made the extraordinary claim that Wynn had threatened to kill him and bury his body in the Nevada desert. Wynn denied the claim, and has now slapped Francis with a slander suit, which does sort of threaten to bury Francis in an even bigger debt hole than the one he’s in now. Read more.