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Bob Guccione:Penthouse magazine founder and longtime editor-in-chief Bob Guccione has died at the age of 79, according towards AP. A statement issued through the Guccione loved ones says he died at at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano, TX. The publisher experienced battled lung cancer for several years.
Guccione presented Penthouse in the U.S. in 1969 as a far more explicit competitor to Playboy. The magazine proved hugely effective and by 1982 Forbes was estimating that Guccione experienced a net worth of $400m. In September 1984, an issue of Penthouse which featured nude photographs of reigning miss America Vanessa Williams sold almost 6 million copies. But more than the subsequent two decades, the magazine’s flow declined and in 2004 Guccione lost ownership within the magazine.
Guccione also produced and financed the hugely controversial film 1979 film Caligula. The film starred Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, and Peter O’Toole and featured explicit sex scenes which Guccione himself directed.