tonight on "nightline," girls gone bust? is is it the racy emwire built on spring break but this video franchise is filing for bankruptcy. tonight the story behind the man behind "girls gone wild." he roams the earth for the perfect combination of snow and gravity. tonight snow barding trail blazer jeremy jones takes me on a back country adventure. and the shocking 91 is tape, a dispatcher pleading we can't wait as a nursing home staffer

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debauchery. >> reporter: joe francis is what you might call a playboy and rich. he made millions because young women in bikinis flashed his cameras. he started the "girls gone wild" franchise which just filed for bankruptcy in las vegas because steve wynn one of the 500 richest men on the planet wants his money. and joe francis owes steve wynn the casino owner around $30 million. to call wynn a casino owner is an understatement. he is mr. vegas and a legend. it's a wild west trail stranger than fiction. a five year legal clash of the titans complete with false accusations of a murder threat. >> they stated he was going to

hit me in the back of the head with a shovel and bury me in the desert. >> it's hard to believe that anybody sitting in that room could come to any other conclusion than joe francis is a liar and a desperate out of control vicious guy. >> reporter: joe francis who lives a bel-air lifestyle is no stranger to legal tussles. a number of women have sued. last year a woman from st. louis won $5.77 million. she claimed a contractor working for a company controlled by "girls gone wild" lifted her tank top. francis has pled guilty to filing false returns and bribery. but troubles with steve wynn started in 2007. francis had a net worth of over $100 million off the back of "girls gone wild." their m.o. is to have girls who

are drinking flash their bodies at clubs in parties and on the beach. >> we shoot girls going wild. >> reporter: in 2007 francis racked up a $2 million gambling debt and didn't pay up. a court ordered francis to pay up. he still hasn't. then came the war of words and francis' claim in 2010 that their friend quincy jones told him that steve wynn e-mailed jones saying that wynn wanted to have francis killed. >> i was afraid for my life. he made it very clear he wanted to kill me. >> he accused me of murdering people and being part of a crime family. >> reporter: steve wynn sued. quincy jones took the stand describing the win/francis

dynamic. >> a lot of drama. a lot of drama. >> reporter: then the crucial question. >> did you ever hear steve wynn threaten to kill joe francis? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: and jones testifies he never saw any such an e-mail. for joe francis game over? wynn is eventually awarded $19 million in damages. francis is appealing. joe francis is a survivor. he spent 339 days in jail on 70 or so charges on a "girls gone wild" mission to panama city, florida. they didn't want him in town. >> here comes a company that is going to put on a show and basically turn our community into a theater for some soft important movie.

they are very good at getting young people who have been drinking or perhaps have not, to do things that are, at best, risque but more appropriately just illegal and nasty. >> reporter: francis won the right to shoot in the city and francis was thrown in jail. the judge threw out all but eight of the charges and francis pleaded no contest at charges that the cameraman had performed women performing sex acts in the bathroom. the plea was a legal convenience at the time. >> i'm 100% innocent of anything that i just pled to. >> reporter: francis said they lied about their age and signed release forms and francis claims he wasn't there. he told "nightline" he doesn't have a problem obeying the law. >> i have a problem with being an easy target and being a likable person that lawyers

think i will get him in front of a jury and people will be jealous of him. >> reporter: francis has not declared personal bankruptcy and "girls gone wild" is still in existence and steve wynn's representatives say the corporate bankruptcy twist makes no difference to them. they are chasing their money against francis personally. our wild west saga goes on. i'm nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. >> just ahead on "nightline" my trip into the sierra nevadas for a split boarding adventure with mountain riding legend jeremy jones. >> abc news "nightline" brought to you by allstate. yeah. yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate safe driving bonus check? what is that? so weird, right? my agent, tom, said... [ voice of dennis ] ...only allstate sends you a bonus check

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for a guy who throws himself off the steepest mountains in the planet, jeremy jones is amazingly sane though there was a time that many in snowboarding questioned even that. you can see why he wanted to turn mountain into skate parks he swore off half pipes and helicopters and became the greatest big mountain rider alive. i met up with him in the sierra nevadas. there is nothing quite like a snow covered mountain to sort people into very distinct skill

sets. the demigods who wing into the back country and bring their conquest back on film and the mortal masses who watch those films and spend their vacations on groomed greens and blues dreaming of what it must be like in the vertical 1% like this guy. >> usually right about here islip into a goofy fantasy where this is the back country of alaska and i become jeremy jones. >> yeah. midnight here in the arctic circle. couldn't be happier. >> reporter: if they carve a mount rushmore of snowboarding jeremy jones is a lock. shaun white claims medals but

jones has given up on fuel burning flying machines. he wants to seek out the most extreme runs in the world using only the power of his legs and lungs. snowboarder magazine named him the big mountain rider of the year for the tenth time. >> these are your bindings. imagine the thrill for a snowboarding mortal when jones offers an invitation to ride in his back country backyard. >> if i ever meet this jones guy i want to talk about the ego that led him to put his name this big. jones is one of the most ego-free cats you'll ever meet. despite his exploits in these films. he has the titles further and deeper, films that could not have been made before jones took a power saw to his board.

>> i take brand new boards and cut them in half which you never get used to running a saw down a fresh board. >> a split board that is a snowboard that converts into cross country skis. it allows you to find runs in places that helicopters cannot reach. >> no lift lines. no one telling you where you can go. >> if they are willing to put in the effort. >> that is a doozy. >> i felt i was not evolving as a person. i wanted to inspire people and show them that free riding can be done without a travel budget and helicopters. >> reporter: that came with a trade off. films that used to take days now take years. >> this is no man's land. >> reporter: what is the longest

you had to hunker down and wait out a storm? >> ten days. >> reporter: he had to develop mountaineering skills and avalanche dynamics. when it comes to caution he is a paradox, a guy who will walk away from a mountain because the snow doesn't feel right but will brave runs like this. >> i get the punch bowls and powder. but when you drop into those chimneys like going down an elevator shafts surrounded by running chain saws. what is the appeal of that? >> gravity so much at your fingertips. you're almost floating and free falling but in total control. >> reporter: jeremy has three other reasons to stay in control. >> three more jumps and it's

jammy time. >> they come from his kids and wife. >> i worry when he goes to squaw. >> when he gets on a chair lift? >> yeah. >> do you? >> yeah. i mean stuff can happen anywhere. >> we lost more friends in -- at squaw valley than we have in the back country here. >> reporter: how has fatherhood changed your risk management or has it? >> kids they just put things in perspective and put an added weight on the importance of coming home every day. there is no question i turn back more than i used to. there is a lot of ways to die out there and the mountains are one of them. i have respect for them but i need to keep living my life. >> top of the world. >> you do this every day? >> yes. >> you take it for granted or get sick of going to work? >> i don't take it for granted

when i get away from the mountains for a period of time i really kind of get in a funk and i -- you know it's like when i get back out for the first time in ten days i'm a totally different person. >> altitude therapy. >> it's my medicine. >> reporter: it's time for the reward. jeremy drops in and i follow clumsily. and just when we hit a groove it's over. but the beauty is there is always another ridge to climb and line to ride as long as the snow keeps falling. on a warming planet that is not guaranteed. jones formed a foundation called protect our winters to sound the alarm on climate change and he has lobbied congress on behalf of the snow sport industry. >> it seems like society is going in a different direction where they are more excited

about the new app on their phone than going for a walk in the woods. i don't think that's a good thing. i want people to get in the mountains and love the mountains and hopefully protect them. >> jeremy jones is scouting the final film in his trilogy. thanks for the ride, jeremy. why some are paying good money for apartments barely bigger than a parking space. [ male announcer ] want to make a great car interior? stop looking at car interiors. get inspired by other stuff. yep. yep. ok. sure. why not? woah. touchscreens. put that in your dash. now, luxury stuff. make your seats like that. that thing has wifi, why doesn't your car? you can't do that. ignore that guy. give it wifi. yes! make it fit 5 people. no, 5 actual sized people. give them leg room, good. destroy boring car interiors forever. and that's how you do it. easy. ♪

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how much space do you need to live comfortably? 2,000 square feet is the norm. but how about 200 square feet? a new kind of architecture is coming into vogue. and we take a teeny look inside the microapartments in tokyo. >> reporter: they are sliced, diced and squeezed into pint sized patches of land. space so tight that bathrooms are tucked away. this bedroom requires so much kneeling and ducking it feels

like a scene out of being john malcovich. in tokyo couples are cramming to 250 square foot homes. this apartment with the width between the walls are just inches. >> the houses are close to begin with and on the right and left they are touching the houses next door. >> reporter: this architect say the japanese have used creative design to transform shoe boxes into works of art. >> this underfloor storage idea is traditional. >> reporter: the storage is under floors. large windows create the illusion of space. >> there you see the roof and the wall. you are almost kissing it.

and this 250 square foot unit the counters fold out and the bathtub is part of the living room. >> the house is big. but if it is really tiny and livable that is special. a trend started and people began to expect good design. >> reporter: and architects have taken the challenge to extremes crafting sculptures on slivers of land. this has a percussion room below a tree top kitchen. and it looks more like a spaceship than a humble abode. this concrete structure feels like a maze. she says life is easier in small bases because everything is within reach. her tiny slice of heaven is one sixth the size of the average home in the u.s.

americans are taking note. last year brown was tasked to advice new york microapartments incorporating lessons from japan. >> if you make smaller homes they won't be more dangerous or uncomfortable and be equally livable or even better. >> reporter: that may be "b" a matter of no small debate. >> spacious if you just got out of prison. time for the closing argument. the 911 call igniting a backlash. a california retirement home staffer refusing to giving cpr a to an 87-year-old resident. >> we need to get cpr started. are we going to let this lady die? we can't wait. we can't wait right now. >> the patient later passed away at the hospital. the retirement home defended the

action saying that our practice is to wait with the individual needing attention until personnel arrives. that is the protocol we followed. we want you to know what you think, are nonmedical personnel obligated to try to save a life? weigh in on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet us @nightline. we thank you for watching abc news. check in with "good morning america" always online at answerneansw