Late last week, Joe Francis told MTV News his side of the story regarding a Thursday-night bar fight he got into with "The Hills" star Brody Jenner and his girlfriend, Jayde Nicole that resulted in Jenner being tased. Now Nicole is coming out with her version.
In a statement to TMZ, the Playmate says that she was, in fact, assaulted by the "Girls Gone Wild" founder at the Guys and Dolls club in Los Angeles, contrary to Francis' claim that he would never hit a girl.
"On Friday, August 28, at approximately 1:20 a.m., 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," the statement reads.
"Jayde immediately reported the assault to the police and is continuing to cooperate fully in the ongoing police investigation of Mr. Francis," it continues. "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."
The statement goes on to say that video footage of the incident, hospital records and photographs of Nicole's injuries — which reportedly included a swollen face, bruised cheek and left rib and sore lower abdomen — prove that she was assaulted. "[I]t is the hope of those who love and care about Jayde that Mr. Francis will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
In an interview with MTV News last week, Francis also claimed that security footage and witnesses would back up his story that Jenner and Nicole attacked him unprovoked.
"This kid runs around Hollywood. His whole thing is to try to be famous," Francis said. "I would never hit a girl in my life, and the footage proves that. Brody is saying everything he can, 'cause he knows ... legally, he is dead. It's on camera. He's trying to ... cloud the whole perception of this thing, so that when his arrest comes, he's trying to destroy the facts of the story. Brody knows he's guilty."
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