Nicholas Guccione, the son of Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione, looks back at his upbringing and late father in the new docuseries, 'Secrets of Penthouse.'
"He was a different animal," Nicholas chuckled."They took it one step further than Penthouse. At one point, they published a cover of a woman going through a hamburger meat grinder and coming out as ground meat. Now that’s disgusting. We weren’t close with Hustler and Flynt. They were a little bit skewed. But as far as Playboy and Penthouse, I think we both had a wonderful and healthy representation of lovely ladies showing off their beauty.
"I was young, but I do remember we made so much money from that one issue," he explained."And my dad, he was a simpleton. He liked to play video games in his bedroom. I didn’t see him for years because he was too involved in his own things. … He got lucky for having a good eye for beauty. … People would go, ‘You grew up with Penthouse – you must abuse and use women.’ Quite the opposite – I respect and love women, that’s what I learned from growing up in this industry.
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Penthouse's circulation dipped below 1 million in the late 1990s and fell to about 463,000 in 2003, the year General Media Inc. filed for bankruptcy. Over the first six months of 2010, Penthouse reported circulation of barely 178,000. In 2004, a private-equity investor from Florida acquired Penthouse in a bankruptcy sale.
Bob Guccione's Penthouse Mansion is seen here Aug. 13, 2003, in New York City. At the time, he was in danger of losing his home.
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