Girls Gone Wild Guru Francis Sues Ex-Accountant (E! Online)

Josh Grossberg Fri Jul 25, 11:51 AM ET Los Angeles (E! Online) - Joe Francis is going wild on his former accountant. The boob-obsessed Girls Gone Wild mogul has sued the former bookkeeper of his Mantra Films whose blabbing to the feds to hammer Francis with a tax-dodging case. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses Michael Barrett of fraud for allegedly creating and preparing tax ledgers that the CPA personally reviewed and approved that contained various errors. The suit claims that instead of alerting Francis or outside bean counters to the mistakes, Barrett instead contacted the Internal Revenue Service to collect a multimillion-dollar reward the agency offers for informing on would-be tax cheats. "While Barrett was secretly trying to get Francis investigated by the Reno [Nevada] division of the... [read full story]