Wild thing.

Girls Gone Wild! mastermind Joe Francis can sleep easy again tonight. The New York Post’s Page Six reports Darnell Riley has been sentenced to almost 11 years in prison for illegally entering Francis’s home, tying him up, videotaping him in graphic positions and attempting to extort $500,000 from him in exchange for not broadcasting the footage. Police were able to track down Riley due to a tip they received from – gasp! – Paris Hilton, of all people. The heiress had evidently overheard Riley having a conversation where he gloated about the burglary, which she promptly shared with authorities. Combined with the fingerprints he left on the tape used to bind Francis, as well as unedited Girls Gone Wild! footage found in his possession, the police were able to convict Riley.

Francis has produced more than 80 different Girls Gone Wild! titles and his empire is reportedly worth millions of dollars. The footage that Riley took of him would have been Francis’ first foray into an entirely new genre, one by which, I imagine, might have made some of his regretful GGW! stars gleeful with delight - Girls Gone Wild: Karma!