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"Girls Gone Wild"
The Smoking Gun ^ | 7/2/2003 | staff

Posted on 07/02/2003 7:15:51 PM PDT by sjersey

In May 1999, Michelle Padilla, her boyfriend, and their cronies headed for some R&R at California's Lake Havasu, one of the West's leading spring break/party havens. One afternoon, while Padilla--then a 23-year-old single mom--was chilling on the deck of a boat, she was greeted with the standard exhortation to, you know, "SHOW US YOUR T***." Padilla, understandably, responded by pulling down the top of her blue bikini and flashing the appreciative crowd. What she didn't know at the time was that her act was being filmed by a "Girls Gone Wild" crew. As a result, Padilla's breast flash has been included in a "Girls Gone Wild" video and DVD, and she can be seen on the firm's web site and in its pop-up advertising (in the photo of the DVD cover at right, Padilla can be seen with the words "All Real" superimposed on her chest). In a federal lawsuit filed last week--an excerpt of which you'll find below--Padilla charges that the "Girls Gone Wild" gang has invaded her privacy and, as a result, she is seeking an injunction barring further sale or distribution of the offending video and DVD. Lisa Cervantes, Padilla's lawyer, told TSG that her client is "not in the habit of doing things like that." She added that Padilla, now 27, has since married and is the stepmother of her husband's two sons, ages 14 and 11. The boys, Cervantes said, have heard "rumors" at school about their stepmom's "Girls Gone Wild" appearance. (5 pages)

In May 1999, Michelle Padilla, her boyfriend, and their cronies headed for some R&R at California's Lake Havasu, one of the West's leading spring break/party havens. One afternoon, while Padilla--then a 23-year-old single mom--was chilling on the deck of a boat, she was greeted with the standard exhortation to, you know, "SHOW US YOUR T***." Padilla, understandably, responded by pulling down the top of her blue bikini and flashing the appreciative crowd. What she didn't know at the time was that her act was being filmed by a "Girls Gone Wild" crew. As a result, Padilla's breast flash has been included in a "Girls Gone Wild" video and DVD, and she can be seen on the firm's web site and in its pop-up advertising (in the photo of the DVD cover at right, Padilla can be seen with the words "All Real" superimposed on her chest). In a federal lawsuit filed last week--an excerpt of which you'll find below--Padilla charges that the "Girls Gone Wild" gang has invaded her privacy and, as a result, she is seeking an injunction barring further sale or distribution of the offending video and DVD. Lisa Cervantes, Padilla's lawyer, told TSG that her client is "not in the habit of doing things like that." She added that Padilla, now 27, has since married and is the stepmother of her husband's two sons, ages 14 and 11. The boys, Cervantes said, have heard "rumors" at school about their stepmom's "Girls Gone Wild" appearance. (5 pages)

In May 1999, Michelle Padilla, her boyfriend, and their cronies headed for some R&R at California's Lake Havasu, one of the West's leading spring break/party havens. One afternoon, while Padilla--then a 23-year-old single mom--was chilling on the deck of a boat, she was greeted with the standard exhortation to, you know, "SHOW US YOUR T***." Padilla, understandably, responded by pulling down the top of her blue bikini and flashing the appreciative crowd. What she didn't know at the time was that her act was being filmed by a "Girls Gone Wild" crew. As a result, Padilla's breast flash has been included in a "Girls Gone Wild" video and DVD, and she can be seen on the firm's web site and in its pop-up advertising (in the photo of the DVD cover at right, Padilla can be seen with the words "All Real" superimposed on her chest). In a federal lawsuit filed last week--an excerpt of which you'll find below--Padilla charges that the "Girls Gone Wild" gang has invaded her privacy and, as a result, she is seeking an injunction barring further sale or distribution of the offending video and DVD. Lisa Cervantes, Padilla's lawyer, told TSG that her client is "not in the habit of doing things like that." She added that Padilla, now 27, has since married and is the stepmother of her husband's two sons, ages 14 and 11. The boys, Cervantes said, have heard "rumors" at school about their stepmom's "Girls Gone Wild" appearance. (5 pages)

In May 1999, Michelle Padilla, her boyfriend, and their cronies headed for some R&R at California's Lake Havasu, one of the West's leading spring break/party havens. One afternoon, while Padilla--then a 23-year-old single mom--was chilling on the deck of a boat, she was greeted with the standard exhortation to, you know, "SHOW US YOUR T***." Padilla, understandably, responded by pulling down the top of her blue bikini and flashing the appreciative crowd. What she didn't know at the time was that her act was being filmed by a "Girls Gone Wild" crew. As a result, Padilla's breast flash has been included in a "Girls Gone Wild" video and DVD, and she can be seen on the firm's web site and in its pop-up advertising (in the photo of the DVD cover at right, Padilla can be seen with the words "All Real" superimposed on her chest). In a federal lawsuit filed last week--an excerpt of which you'll find below--Padilla charges that the "Girls Gone Wild" gang has invaded her privacy and, as a result, she is seeking an injunction barring further sale or distribution of the offending video and DVD. Lisa Cervantes, Padilla's lawyer, told TSG that her client is "not in the habit of doing things like that." She added that Padilla, now 27, has since married and is the stepmother of her husband's two sons, ages 14 and 11. The boys, Cervantes said, have heard "rumors" at school about their stepmom's "Girls Gone Wild" appearance. (5 pages)

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To: Cacophonous; Centurion2000
You beat ne to it. I was gonna question the same "understandable" behavior.

Same. The word "understandably" really stuck out.

21 posted on 07/02/2003 7:27:26 PM PDT by lowbridge (Rob: "I see a five letter word. F-R-E-E-P. Freep." Jerry: "Freep? What's that?" - Dick Van Dyke Show)
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To: sjersey
I wonder what would have happened if they had yelled "SHOW US YOUR GALL BLADDER!"
Would she have whipped out a scalpel and done self-surgery?
22 posted on 07/02/2003 7:27:27 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: martin_fierro
She certainly appears willing, to say the least!
23 posted on 07/02/2003 7:28:29 PM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: sjersey
WOW, when printed upside down spells MOM. It sounds as if this MOM once fancied herself a WOW.
24 posted on 07/02/2003 7:28:52 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: Izzy Dunne
I wonder what would have happened if they had yelled "Show us your schlong!" to any guys on the boat..."understandably", they'd have whipped it out, I s'pose.
25 posted on 07/02/2003 7:29:40 PM PDT by Cacophonous
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To: sjersey
Padilla charges that the "Girls Gone Wild" gang has invaded her privacy and, as a result, she is seeking an injunction barring further sale or distribution of the offending video and DVD.

How irresponsible of the GGW gang to expose the boobs she exposed in public to the public.

26 posted on 07/02/2003 7:29:58 PM PDT by DaBroasta (All good democrats are dead)
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To: Archangelsk
The real relevant issue is "23-year old, single mom".

Apparently her T*** weren't the only thing she showed upon request.

27 posted on 07/02/2003 7:31:19 PM PDT by Dr Warmoose
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To: sjersey
Padilla charges that the "Girls Gone Wild" gang has invaded her privacy and, as a result, she is seeking an injunction barring further sale or distribution of the offending video and DVD.

"Invaded her privacy"? By taking photographs of something she did in public, for a crowd of people?

Yeah, right.

28 posted on 07/02/2003 7:32:49 PM PDT by timm22
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To: sjersey
the standard exhortation to, you know, "SHOW US YOUR T***."

SHOW US YOUR TUBA?
SHOW US YOUR TIRE?
SHOW US YOUR TANK?
SHOW US YOUR TIME?
SHOW US YOUR TORT?
SHOW US YOUR TILE?
SHOW US YOUR... oh, THOSE...

29 posted on 07/02/2003 7:32:58 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: timm22
"Invaded her privacy"? By taking photographs of something she did in public, for a crowd of people?

More like "gathered evidence".

30 posted on 07/02/2003 7:33:53 PM PDT by Dr Warmoose
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To: Lurker
We've got GOVERNMENT GIRLS GONE WILD in CA!!!
Pilyosi, Boxer & Fienstien!!!
31 posted on 07/02/2003 7:37:03 PM PDT by SierraWasp (The Endangered Species Act had not saved one specie, but has ruined thousands of American Dreams!!!)
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To: TomServo
"She could care less about being embarrassed."

The pics sort of tell that story, don't they!

32 posted on 07/02/2003 7:37:38 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: lowbridge
The word "understandably" really stuck out.

Among other things in this story that were, um, stuck out.

I think I was just raised differently. I can't imagine a context where I would feel compelled to yell "Show us your t**s" without deserving a slap in the face. And yet some women don't just get offended - they actually comply! Another of those things I just don't understand. Are they *that* desperate for attention or do they think a guy is going to care more than for a fleeting moment of gratification?

Then, of course, when their goods are **flashed** all over the internet or on videotape, these "good girls" actually have the nerve to feel offended.

33 posted on 07/02/2003 7:39:21 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Spay or neuter your liberal.)
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To: timm22
They forced her to do it. Just look at how terrified she looks on the box cover!
34 posted on 07/02/2003 7:39:40 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Izzy Dunne
SHOW US YOUR TORT?

That's what she yelled at her attorney....

35 posted on 07/02/2003 7:41:21 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Spay or neuter your liberal.)
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To: Archangelsk
"The real relevant issue is "23-year old, single mom".

No, I think this gal may have a case. The real, relevant issue is "RELEASE FORM". If it is not a news show, the producers are really supposed to get one. I've signed these myself, but you know GGW producers don't do this.

LOL, I think she's got a shot, and deserves to, or maybe goes to the attorney, because, if my inferrence is correct, it's about time SOMEONE got wise to this!

I know this story's got boobs, I wonder if its got legs!


36 posted on 07/02/2003 7:45:08 PM PDT by jocon307 (You think I exagerate? You don't know the half of it!)
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To: Henrietta
Let's see - some dorks walk up with a video camera and ask her to flash them her breasts - and she does. Now she is upset because that video is now for sale? Gee-Wiz, no one forced her to flash them.....
37 posted on 07/02/2003 7:47:36 PM PDT by TheBattman
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To: Tall_Texan; sjersey
It probably won't do any good asking sjersey questions.
He seems to be one of those shy freepers who post articles
and never respond on the threads.
38 posted on 07/02/2003 8:09:31 PM PDT by gcruse (There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women[.] --Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Izzy Dunne
SHOW US YOUR T(otal lack of self-respect)
39 posted on 07/02/2003 8:29:37 PM PDT by Tony in Hawaii (Actually Tarzana CA.)
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To: jocon307
I don't believe so. Public acts that intentionally draw public attention are PUBLIC domain. This has been upheld time and time again.
40 posted on 07/03/2003 6:14:19 AM PDT by fuente
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