GGW Brands, LLC

  1. June 04, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Creator Rips Subsidiary's Ch. 11 Filing

    "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis asked a California federal court Monday to review a bankruptcy judge's order allowing the defunct company's trustee to push a subsidiary into Chapter 11 in a bid to recover company trademarks transferred overseas.

  2. May 23, 2013

    Trustee Says 'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Can't Stop Ch. 11

    The trustee overseeing the California "Girls Gone Wild" bankruptcy derided efforts by founder Joe Francis to halt the bankruptcy of a subsidiary involved in the purportedly fraudulent overseas transfer of company trademarks on Thursday, saying his emergency motion was filed an hour and a half too late.

  3. May 21, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Subsidiary Cleared For Ch. 11

    A California bankruptcy judge on Monday gave the green light to the "Girls Gone Wild" Chapter 11 trustee to file bankruptcy for subsidiary GGW Marketing LLC, paving the way for the recovery of company trademarks that were allegedly fraudulently transferred to an offshore trust.

  4. May 15, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Says Marketing Co. Isn't Subsidiary

    "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis on Tuesday said the trustee overseeing the company's bankruptcy should not be allowed to declare bankruptcy for GGW Marketing LLC in a bid to recover alleged trademark transfers because GGW Marketing is not a subsidiary of the bankrupt company.

  5. May 09, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Trustee Wants Subsidiary In Bankruptcy

    The Chapter 11 trustee for "Girls Gone Wild" filed a motion in California bankruptcy court Thursday seeking permission to declare bankruptcy for subsidiary GGW Marketing, just one day after Neilson accused GGW founder Joe Francis of offshore intellectual property fraud.

  6. May 08, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Accused Of Offshore IP Fraud

    "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis fraudulently transferred the bankrupt company's trademarks to an offshore company he owns, GGW's Chapter 11 trustee told a California judge Wednesday in an emergency motion requesting access to the notorious company's computer files.

  7. May 03, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Trustee Gets Subpoena Power

    A bankruptcy judge in California gave the go-ahead Thursday for the trustee in the Chapter 11 case of "Girls Gone Wild" to issue subpoenas as he investigates alleged mismanagement and whether founder Joe Francis has been plundering the raunchy company's assets for himself.

  8. April 24, 2013

    'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Threatened Workers, Trustee Says

    The bankruptcy trustee for the company that makes the racy "Girls Gone Wild" videos sued founder Joe Francis on Tuesday in order to stop him from having any contact with his former firm, claiming he's made violent threats against employees to coerce them to follow his orders.

  9. April 17, 2013

    Ex-FBI Agent, Solyndra CRO Named 'Girls Gone Wild' Trustee

    R. Todd Neilson, a forensic accountant and former FBI agent that headed the internal investigation into Solyndra LLC's bankruptcy, has been tapped as Chapter 11 trustee for the company behind the raunchy "Girls Gone Wild" videos.

  10. April 11, 2013

    Girls Gone Wild Can't Block Trustee In Ch. 11

    A California federal judge granted a motion to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee Wednesday in the bankruptcy case for the company behind the raunchy "Girls Gone Wild" videos, despite threats from the brand's founder that he'd pull his image from the product line, crippling its future.