Trending: The ballad of James Franco and Lucy Clode

Lucy Code, 17, ultimately had the good sense to refuse to meet up with James Franco for a late-night hotel tryst — so why did she bother flirting with him on Instagram at all? Lucy had 'an opportunity to get her name in the 

James Franco speaks candidly about his failed underage Instagram conquest on Live! With Kelly and Michael!

When news broke that a Scottish teenage girl posted text message exchanges with James Franco on Imgur, we thought the photos could be fake. James Franco, 35, wouldn't really try to hook up with a 17-year-old, would he?

When news broke that a Scottish teenage girl posted text message exchanges with James Franco on Imgur, we thought the photos could be fake. James Franco, 35, wouldn't really try to hook up with a 17-year-old, would he?

James Franco owned up Friday to flirting with a teenaged girl. But is the whole thing just a big hoax? Franco's Instagram conversation with Lucy Clode, a 17-year-old Scottish tourist visiting New York, triggered a wave of criticism of the “Spring