Bob Guccione
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
- Bob Guccione in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "Of one who set out to move out of America" ( Spiegel Online on October 21, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The New York Times : “Don't Blink. You'll Miss the 258th-Richest American. "
- ↑ a b IMDb : “Biography for Bob Guccione”
- ↑ bloomberg.com : "Bob Guccione, Penthouse Magazine Founder, Dies After Long Illness, AP Says"
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Guccione, Bob |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guccione, Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American publisher and founder of the men's magazine Penthouse |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |
DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 2010 |
Place of death | Plano , Texas, USA |