Joe Francis $20 MILLION LOSER In Steve Wynn Lawsuit 
 
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 just got hammered by a jury in's defamation lawsuit -- the jury socked him with a $20 million verdict.If you recall ... Wynn was suing Francis for defamation, claiming the "" guru made bogus claims that Wynn threatened to have him killed and buried in the desert over a gambling debt.The judge nailed Francis to the tune of $5 mil for statements made to a TMZ producer in a courtroom hallway ... talking smack on Wynn.The jury added $11 mil for defamatory statements Francis made on "Good Morning America.
– Lots of girls are going to have to go pretty wild to pay off Joe Francis' legal bills: A jury has awarded casino mogul Steve Wynn $20 million in his slander suit against the Girls Gone Wild soft-porn tycoon, reports the Los Angeles Times. Francis had publicly claimed that Wynn threatened to have him killed and buried in the desert over a $2 million gambling debt, but the jury decided that the allegations were false and Wynn had been slandered. The jury will now decide whether to hit Francis with punitive damages, which could be as much as $60 million, TMZ reports.