Hugh Hefner generously announced today that naked Miley Cyrus would be nakedly “welcomed in [his] magazine” full of naked ladies—when she’s of age, of course. [Us] This isn’t the first time that the doddering coot, or his kin, pulled such a stunt, knowing full well the offer would get a write up in the gossip columns, but that the starlets would never agree. Below, a look back at some of the million dollar deals, made by creepy old men, and Joe Francis, that never were.

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This video from Inside Edition shows how an Inside Edition anchor hides from his Girls Gone Wild subscription by producing a segment about the nefarious porn company which keeps sending him DVDs he totally didn’t request. [BWE] It kind of makes you wonder: Why didn’t The Insider’s Pat O’Brien blame his alcoholism on a beer company that refused to stop sending him free cases?

Rather than tango through the courts with Ashley Dupre, Joe Francis is hoping to “settle” her $10 million lawsuit – for allegedly tricking her into getting drunk in ‘03 and baring all for the cameras – for a cool $1 million. The Girls Gone Wild anti-hero is putting his million dollar fee back on the table for Eliot Spitzer’s ex-call girl, after reneging on the initial offer when he realized he already had her on tape. And as Francis himself notes, “She should keep in mind it’s considerably more than the governor of New York paid her, and our activities aren’t illegal.” Well, that might be for the courts to decide.

What to do when your prostitution income dries up and the music career you hoped for plateaus after selling MP3 downloads to a few curious listeners? Find other means of income, natch. So here’s Ashley Alexander Dupre, Eliot Spitzer’s former call girl, looking for her next big pay day with Joe Francis, launching a $10 million suit against the Girls Gone Wild chief for marketing his video footage of the then 17-year-old, even though, as she claims, she wasn’t old enough to legally sign a contract granting him permission.

It’s unlikely she’ll ever see anything close to $10 million. Francis has the funds to string this lawsuit through the courts and drain whatever cash Dupre might have saved up. That, and he loves this kind of publicity, so it’s in his best interest to keep this scandal going.

That said, we imagine Dupre will end up getting a few bucks, if not via settlement, then through a revenue sharing arrangement with the video Francis plans to sell. Either way, it’d still be significantly more than what she earned back in Miami Beach in ‘03 when she was filmed:

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Joe Francis was all prepared to offer Ashley Dupre $1 million to do a video and photo shoot for his Girls Gone Wild DVD series and magazine … until he realized he already had hours of footage of Eliot Spitzer’s lady friend. In all, there are seven tapes of Dupre, who hooked up with the GGW film crew in Miami Beach during Spring Break ‘03; she had been kicked out of her hotel room after fighting with a friend, and they offered her a bus to party on. And like all good things that enter Ashley’s life, this too, was short lived: They supposedly had to kick her off the bus when they discovered the then-18-year-old drinking.

How did Joe Francis score his release from jail over child abuse charges stemming from his alleged “adult” filming of two 17-year-old girls? By exposing Florida state attorney Steve Meadows showing child porn to ABC’s Nightline, he claims.

Meadows, who was running as much of a media blitz as Francis and his attorney Roy Black, was all too pleased to publicize his drawn-out capture of the Girls Gone Wild chief.

Which is why, when Nightline’s Martin Bashir (of Michael Jackson fame) came calling, Meadows had the tapes ready to show off. That was a mistake: If the footage of the 17-year-old girls was enough to get Francis to plead to a felony count (but not register as a sex offender) then it’s enough to make exhibiting the tape for TV news types just as illegal. (So the story goes, only law enforcement authorities can view child porn, and only under the auspices of an investigation. Remember Kurt Eichenwald?)

For his part, Francis denies ever seeing the tape.

Though the obviously-bias Martin refused to testify against Meadows, invoking privilege, as to whether the attorney showed him the tape, the clip below shows the Nightline anchor has a thorough understanding of exactly what’s on the tape, including the size of the girls’ breasts.

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The friendly skies between Page Six and Girls Gone Wild sleaze Joe Francis are, like spring, here before you know it. [Radar]

Joe Francis’ Girls Gone Wild magazine doesn’t hit newsstands until April 15, but here’s what’s purported to be the first issue — all 14 pages of it. A $9.99 cover price gets you features like “The Search for the Wildest Bar” and “The Insane Life of a Girls Gone Wild Camera Man,” both of which you can already find on Thrillist and, well, a Girls Gone Wild DVD. [P6]

You know that Son of Sam Law, created to keep criminals from writing books and profiting from their crimes? Joe Francis totally found a way around it! Okay, that’s a bit of a stretch: The Girls Gone Wild creator is currently in lock up on tax evasion charges, not for exploiting underage girls!

But from behind bars, he’s already planning the launch of Girls Gone Wild magazine, which Page Six describes as a “PG-13 print version of his raunchy video series in which drunken college girls are coaxed into stripping for the camera.”

The first issue should hit newsstands April 15 and, given that P6 honcho Richard Johnson and the Fran-Man are BFFs, you can expect in-depth chronicling of its Kim Kardashian-filled pages.

Two “stars” of Girls Gone Wild are suing first amendment pioneer/pornographer Joe Francis.

(As an aside, even our cousin got a better nose job than Joe Francis.)

But Joe has proof the girls were willing to lose their diginty and any hope of running for public office for a tank top. In a video posted on Francis’s Web site, the girls consent numerous times.

One girl who appears in the clip but is not suing Francis does say she doesn’t want her likeness used on MTV “because I don’t want my parents to see it.”

If her parents did catch it on MTV, and they were wondering how their little daughter grew up into a girl gone wild, they could point to the fact that they were in their forties watching MTV.