Bob Guccione

The founder of the penthouse magazine is no more, Bob Guccione was 79 and he had in actual spent a lot of time in the seminary and spent several years trying to become an artist, before in actual found niche which Hefner left for the man in the late sixties. At a time when the playboy magazine of Hefner strove to surround the pinups with help of an upscale image, Bob Guccione aimed to get something that was a bit more directed towards the penthouse. Some more explicit nudes and a lot more sensational stories were added and some great letters as well were added. The things started to work out and continued for decades and are in actual still going on in the current time with a lot of success.
Bob Guccione once stated that during the time period in which he worked as a published for the magazine Penthouse had earnings of around 4 Billion Dollars. Bob was also among the Forbes ranking of the 400
richest persons and had a net worth of some 400 million dollars in 1982. In the year 1984 the magazine issued nude pictures of Vanessa Williams who was the Miss America of her time but after these pictures she had to give up the title, the issue which had her pictures in it sold around six million copies and earned some 14 million US Dollars. The success rate of Bob changed to a great extent when the videos became more popular form of porn and the arrival of internet made things worse.