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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0823_joe_francis_EX_01\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/08/23/0823-joe-francis-ex-01.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/person/joe-francis/\"&gt;Joe Francis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; insists he never laid a hand on the chick who claims the \"&lt;strong&gt;Girls Gone Wild&lt;/strong&gt;\" honcho assaulted her in his Hollywood mansion -- telling TMZ, he even has security footage to PROVE he's innocent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe tells us, he has THREE surveillance cameras that captured the 3-woman altercation at his home back in January -- from several different angles -- and he wasn't involved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Francis, two of the girls were fighting EACH OTHER -- and all three were escorted out of his house for being unruly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a drastically different story from what the girls told police -- that Francis grabbed one of them by the throat and hair, and &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/05/joe-francis-police-investigation-woman-battery-los-angeles-girls-gone-wild-push/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;slammed her head&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; into the tiled floor of his house ... four times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Francis was charged with one count of assault causing great bodily injury as a result -- &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/23/joe-francis-girls-gone-wild-surrenders-to-police-lapd-police-cops-false-imprisonment/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in addition to&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; three counts of false imprisonment and one count of dissuading a witness from filing a police report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Francis insists it's all BS -- telling us, there wasn't even a tiled floor anywhere near the scene of the fight. TMZ spoke to two other people at Francis' home that night -- and both are prepared to testify in Joe's defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting side note: the City Attorney who charged Francis is currently prepping to run for D.A. -- and Joe believes the entire case is politically motivated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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