Bob Guccione

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Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini "Bob" Guccione (born December 17, 1930 in New York ; † October 20, 2010 in Plano , Texas ) was an American nude photographer and film producer and founder and until the end of 2003 publisher of the men's magazine Penthouse .

Life

Bob Guccione was on December 17, 1930 New York District Brooklyn born to Anthony and Nina Guccione, grew up in Bergenfield ( New Jersey ) and attended in Blairstown , the private school Blair Academy .

1965 founded Guccione in the UK , the men's magazine Penthouse as competition to Hugh Hefner's Playboy and led it four years later in the USA. Since 1980, with interruptions in the 2000s, a German-language edition has been published. In the early days of the magazine, he photographed most of the models himself due to financial problems.

In 1979, Guccione produced the film Caligula , from whose editing he excluded the director Tinto Brass and had pornographic scenes added. The film did not get good reviews from film critics .

At the height of his success was one Guccione among the richest people in the United States and was in 1982 in the first edition of the Forbes 400 ranking  - where the richest Americans are listed - with a former assets of about 400 million US Dollar represented.

Guccione was married to the publisher Kathy Keeton from 1988 until her death in 1997. In her honor, he established a cancer research foundation. Before that, Guccione was married twice.

His son Bob Guccione junior , born in 1956, was the first editor of the music magazine Spin . Besides him, he has four other children.

Guccione died of Plano (Texas) 20 October 2010 of cancer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The New York Times : “Don't Blink. You'll Miss the 258th-Richest American. "
  2. a b IMDb : “Biography for Bob Guccione”
  3. bloomberg.com : "Bob Guccione, Penthouse Magazine Founder, Dies After Long Illness, AP Says"