PENTHOUSE FOUNDER GUCCIONE DIES
Publishing mogul BOB GUCCIONE has died at the age of 79.
The New Yorker, who famously first introduced full frontal nudity to the men’s magazines market, passed away in hospital in Texas on Wednesday (20Oct10) following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Guccione made his name after launching the provocative Penthouse magazine in 1969, competing with rival Hugh Hefner by publishing explicit pictures of naked women.
His raunchy release led him to build a billion-dollar publishing empire in the mainstream market.
Guccione’s most famous scoops included printing naked snaps of Madonna in 1985 and then-Miss America, Vanessa Williams.
He lost his publishing business to bankruptcy in 2003.
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