The feud between “Girls Gone Wild” scumbag Joe Francis and Playboy model Jayde Nicole continues to rage on. We told you about the L.A. nightclub incident in which Jayde poured a drink on Francis after she saw him aggressively hitting on her friend. Joe retaliated by grabbing the model from behind by the hair, throwing her to the ground and kicking her. Now, there is video that supports Jayde’s claims, taken from the club where the incident occurred. The video clearly shows Francis coming up behind Jayde while her back is turned and viciously dragging her through a crowd of people by the hair.

“He can’t lie anymore!” Jayde Nicole speaks out for the first time since the attack, describing her nightmare experience at the hands of Joe Francis while watching RadarOnline.com’s explosive never-before-seen security video of the incident.

Early in the morning on Friday, August 28, Jayde, her boyfriend Brody Jenner and a group of friends were at Hollywood hot spot Guys and Dolls when Jayde spotted Joe and said he was grabbing her friend and trying to kiss her. Jayde reached through a crowd and dumped her shot-glass drink on Joe’s shoulder. She then turned back to the bar.

That’s when the violence started. Joe pushed bar patrons aside, reached through the crowd and grabbed Jayde by the hair, viciously yanking her to the floor and dragging her through the crowd. A melee ensued, with Brody and others chasing Francis through the bar.

As she stood up barefoot and sat at the bar Jayde said she had no idea what had just happened to her. “I was traumatized at this point,” the former Playboy model told RadarOnline.com. Conflicting reports from Jenner and Francis say that the two got into a fist fight outside the club and Brody was tasered by someone.

Jayde’s lawyer, Ronald Richards, defended his client and slammed Francis’ violent reaction and the defense he’s been using – “This was not any self defense by Mr. Francis.”

[From Radar]

Radar has the video exclusively, so we can’t post it here. But the footage, while black and white and kind of grainy, clearly shows what happened in the club. Unfortunately there’s no video of the fight that happened outside the club, but my theory is that Francis unleashed a couple of thugs on Brody Jenner because he didn’t want to mess up his hair.

Sean Penn has long been known for his bad temper. He’s certainly not a happy-go-lucky sort, and comes across as rather surly much of the time. Given all that, it’s not surprising to hear that he attacked a paparazzo on Friday. The photographer, Jordan Dawes, was at the Brentwood Country Mart taking photos of celebs from inside his car. As Sean Penn pulled into the parking lot, Dawes started photographing him. However things got ugly when Dawes got out of his car and Sean saw him – and went ballistic, chasing, kicking, and hitting the guy.

The paparazzo in the alleged Sean Penn scuffle is not taking his supposed altercation with the actor lying down. Photographer and self-proclaimed documentarian Jordan Dawes spoke to E! News exclusively about his alleged beat-down Friday afternoon, for which he filed a police report against the Oscar winner.

According to Dawes, he and four other photographers and videographers were waiting at the Brentwood Country Mart for the Milk star that afternoon. When Penn got out of his car, the photog started snapping pictures of the actor from his vehicle, which he claims was parked about 50 feet away from Penn.

When Dawes got out of his car and started taking photos of Penn, that’s when Penn approached him, the photog said. “He beelined it for me and started kicking me in the legs,” Dawes said. “As I was backing away, I was still shooting. Then he got me to the other side of the street and punched me in the arm and in my camera.” According to the shutterbug, the 49-year-old star threatened to “put him in a box” and told him he would remember his face.

“My camera was damaged,” Dawes said. “I’m all bruised up…I empathize with the photographers now, I really do. It’s horrifying.” The paparazzo said he turned in photos taken during the alleged attack to authorities, but hasn’t decided whether to take civil action against Penn.

E! News has confirmed that a police report was filed in the incident. “We can confirm that a battery report involving a member of the paparazzi was taken on Friday the 2nd at about 1:15 p.m. in the 300 block of Mesa Drive, but we are not confirming the names in the complaint,” Officer Karen Rayner of LAPD Media Relations said.

[From E! News]

No one from Sean Penn’s camp has responded as of yet. I find it really hard to figure out who to sympathize with here. Yeah, celebrities know that when they become famous, photographers are going to hound them. But when you see videos of the way the paparazzi does it – how many there are, how loud they are, how close they are – it’s hard not to sympathize with anyone living like that. I would never want to be famous for that reason alone. The excessive money would probably help soften the blow though. Obviously Sean Penn wasn’t being surrounded by a throng of paps. But I can see how, over the years, the sight of any photographer could get to be too much. We all have our breaking point, and Sean Penn’s is obviously a shorter distance than most people’s.

That said, he’s still responsible for his actions. I can imagine why he might have done what he did, but I’m not saying it’s okay. He assaulted a man who wasn’t harming him in any way, just annoying him. Oh, and he looked like an absolute buffoon doing it, according to these TMZ photos. Being that Jordan Dawes is a paparazzo, I’m assuming it’s safe to say he’ll be filing a massive civil suit shortly. I’m betting Penn will settle quietly out of court – I’m guessing $15,000. That just feels like the right number for being kicked by Sean Penn, and just enough to get the guy to drop his case.

My question is, when will Dawes’ pictures come out? Those have got to be some interesting shots.

Here’s Sean running from the paps in August.

Ordinarily, I can’t really stand any Courtney Love story, but this one struck me. Page Six is reporting that Courtney attacked a defenseless man (a pharmacist!) at a party. It seems the guy, named Sebastian Karnaby (sidenote: there are pharmacists named Sebastian?) accidentally walked in on Courtney Love while she was using the bathroom. And yes, “using” means “her skirt [was] around her ankles.” Sebastian walked out quickly, but Courtney hiked up her skirt, quickly exited the bathroom, and began attacking the poor bastard. Sebastian claims that Courtney was like a “possessed woman” and that seeing her on the toilet wasn’t a “pretty sight”. Shiver.

Don’t interrupt Courtney Love while she’s in the bathroom.

The rocker “went nuts” when a guest at a party at the Standard Hotel opened an unlocked bathroom door and saw her on the toilet with her skirt around her ankles.

According to the astonished, unintentional intruder, Love flew out of the loo, launched herself at him and threatened to have him thrown out.

Sebastian Karnaby, a pharmacist, tells Page Six he was trying to leave the party for the Times’ T style magazine at the hotel’s new Boom Boom the other night when he had the encounter with Love.

He said, “I couldn’t find my way out and asked someone to show me the door.” He opened the door he was led to, and “there was Courtney Love, sitting on the toilet with her skirt around her ankles.”

Karnaby says he was shocked and slammed the door shut, but that wasn’t enough for Love. He relates, “She stormed out screaming, ‘I am going to get you thrown out!’ She jumped on me, went crazy and dragged me over to security by the arm and claimed that I’d attacked her.

“They were trying to calm her down, but she was out of control. She was like a possessed woman. I absolutely did not attack her — I was trying to get away,” Karnaby said. “Thankfully, she’d remembered to pull up her skirt.”

He says security told him, “It’s best you get away as fast as possible.”

“I never wanted to see Courtney Love on the toilet,” he said. “It wasn’t a pretty sight. I just wanted to get out of there.”

Enjoying the party in a more civilized fashion were editor Stefano Tonchi, co-hosts Jeff Koons and Simon Doonan, Josh Hartnett, Helena Christensen, and photographer Terry Richardson.

Other guests at the party confirmed Karnaby’s story. Love’s rep refused to comment.

[From Page Six]

That’s the kind of thing that would scar me for life – that is, the part about seeing Courtney on the toilet, not the part about her attacking me. At this point, Courtney has probably attacked most people in Los Angeles, London and New York. I would imagine everyone has their “Courtney Love went berserk on me and here’s the scar” story. I’ve actually had people walk in on me in the toilet before – you know how it is, you’re in some sketchy dive bar, the lock doesn’t work, and you really need to pee. I didn’t freak out, I just shouted “I’m in here, dude!” Because I’m classy.

Courtney Love is shown at NY fashion week on 9/15/09. She’s also shown out with raccoon eyes on 9/12/09. Credit: WENN.com

2008 Playboy Playmate of the year, Jayde Nicole, has issued an official statement regarding the attack she suffered at the hands of “Girls Gone Wild” mogul Joe Francis at a Hollywood club late last week. According to Nicole, Francis attacked her from behind, threw her down, and punched her in the face. Reports that came out last week claim that Francis’ attack occurred after Nicole through a drink at him. If you watch a paparazzi video on TMZ taken right after the incident, Nicole is visibly upset and shaken and shows the bruises near her eye that she says were inflicted by Francis. She comes across as completely believable. Francis claims that Nicole’s boyfriend, reality star Brody Jenner, is the one who punched him out of nowhere and that all he did was kind of grab Nicole. Jenner then ended up getting tased by someone that night outside the club, which Francis didn’t mention as far as I could tell. This wasn’t the first bar fight between Jenner and Francis – they were involved in previous altercation in March, at which time Francis is also alleged to have hit Nicole.

Joe Francis claims he was sucker punched. But Jayde Nicole insists it’s Francis who prefers to take the cheap shots.

“Jayde Nicole was the victim of a violent assault when she was attacked from behind, thrown down to the ground by her hair and beaten in the face and body in front of multiple witnesses by a person identified as Joe Francis,” her rep, Jerry Shandrew, said in a statement Monday.

Shandrew says that the Playboy Playmate will not be talking too much while authorities investigate the rumble that occurred early Friday between Francis, Nicole and her boyfriend, Brody Jenner, outside a Hollywood club. Instead, they’d rather the police be the ones making all the noise.

Noting that Nicole filed a police report immediately afterward and has been cooperating with the cops, Shandrew added, “Because of the ongoing criminal investigation of Mr. Francis, it will be inappropriate to comment further at this time out of respect for the law enforcement process.”

Of course, Nicole’s version of the story couldn’t be any different from Francis’, as he has admitted to maybe a bit of hair pulling and denied everything else.

Francis maintains Nicole poured a drink on him inside Guys and Dolls that night, and, in turning around, he may have grabbed her hair.

He told E! News Friday that, after security had helped him get outside, it was an unprovoked Jenner who hit him in the face. “He coldcocked me,” Francis said. He threatened legal action against Jenner afterward for accusing him via Twitter of beating on Nicole.

But according to Nicole’s rep, there is photographic and video evidence of Francis attacking her, not to mention hospital records of her injuries.

“It is the hope of those who love and care about Jayde that Mr. Francis will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Shandrew said.

[From E! Online]

Radar Online has more details of the night in question, and apparently the altercation started because Jayde and Brody were with an ex girlfriend of Joe Francis’, model Abbey Wilson, at the club. Wilson gave Radar a statement about what happened, and by her account Francis grabbed her and forcibly tried to kiss her. She said that Jayde then intervened but she wasn’t sure if Jayde threw a drink at Joe at all. Then Francis grabbed Jayde by the hair and pulled her back, but the rest was supposedly out of view:

“As I tried to get away from him Jayde intervened and (Francis) grabbed her hair and she fell backwards. I’m not sure if a drink was poured over him though. The next thing a whole bunch of people surrounded us and I couldn’t see any actual physical attacks.”

[From Radar Online]

It sounds like Wilson is being super careful not to incriminate anyone in her statement, and I would bet that she witnessed much more than she’s owning up to. She also says that in the year she lived with Francis he was never violent toward her and she never witnessed him being violent toward anyone else. I find that hard to believe, and maybe she’s scared of the guy and is covering up for him, but whatever.

Joe Francis still faces federal tax evasion charges. His trial is scheduled to start on October 14. E! Online asked a rep from the US Attorney’s Office if Francis’ attack on Nicole could put him behind bars while he awaits trial. The rep said it’s too early to tell. The judge isn’t going to take kindly to Francis beating up a woman at a club, though, and maybe it will earn him some more jail time. He’s already spent 11 months in jail without bail on a civil charge for using underage girls in his videos which he claimed that was a gross travesty of justice and whined that the judge and prosecutor had it out for him. The guy spent most of his time in a Nevada jail of his choice where he had phone and Internet privileges, though, so it’s not like he was truly hurting. Francis faces up to ten years in federal prison for tax evasion, and that experience will be nothing like his last stint in jail. There’s at least some justice in this world.

Jayde Nicole is shown on 7/11 (with Brody Jenner) and 7/30/09. Credit: WENN.com. Joe Francis is shown on 7/28/09. Credit: PRPhotos

Once upon a time, Joe Francis was a slimy creep whose worst crimes against women consisted of making millions by getting college girls drunk enough to coerce them into removing their clothes and doing things they wouldn’t normally do. Oh, and if the rumors are to be believed, he’s probably the one who gave Paris Hilton herpes. But now, you can add woman-beater to that list, after an epic fight at a club in LA last night. Joe punched and kicked former Playboy Playmate Jayde Nicole after she did what every woman in America would love to do – threw a drink in his face. (Personally, I would have kicked him in the balls, but that’s just me.) Because every man knows that an appropriate response to having some liquid thrown in your face is to punch, kick, and throw someone to the ground, right?

Brody Jenner was in an epic fight outside of Guys and Dolls this morning, with Girls Gone Wild honcho Joe Francis.

Jenner just spoke with us by phone. According to Jenner, he and his girlfriend, Jayde Nicole, were at the club celebrating his birthday, when Jayde saw Francis hitting on an ex-girlfriend of his (Francis’), Jenner says “unrelentingly.” Jayde felt he was harassing the woman — whom Jayde and Brody know — and she threw a drink on Francis.

Jenner says Francis then pulled Jayde’s hair, punched her in the face and threw her to the ground and began kicking her. Security broke it up and Francis got dragged away — Brody followed.

Jenner says he started yelling at Francis and both men were ejected from the club.

Outside the club, Jenner says he tried to get back in to see Jayde but security wouldn’t let him. Jenner then saw Joe, punched him in the face, and then someone tased him and he fell to the ground.

Francis left the scene. The cops — who say a call came in at 2:46 AM for battery — came but no one was arrested.

Jayde tells TMZ she will press charges against Francis.

Jayde has a black and blue cheek, her face is swollen, she has a bruised left rib and her lower abdomen is sore. Some of her hair also got pulled out.

UPDATE: Brody put the following message on his Twitter: “Joe Francis beat up my lady this morning for no reason! Pulled her to the ground, punched & kicked her..what does that say about him. How can you call yourself a man when you beat up a girl?? Joe Francis is a piece of sh*t. Joe Francis needs to be in jail!!!”

[From TMZ.com]

Is anyone really surprised that Joe Francis would physically assault a woman? After all, he has built an empire out of treating them like objects, so this is the next logical step. And I never thought I would say this about Brody Jenner, but he gets big points for stepping in. I wonder who exactly tased Jenner- perhaps one of Joe’s security thugs?

Here’s Brody Jenner and Jayde Nicole going shopping at the Apple store in Hollywood on Monday. Header of Joe Francis from April 22nd. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .