Well, that’s Bob.”Įvery Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term “There’s a satanic sense, a darkness - even a Sicilian darkness that reminds me of all my Sicilian relatives. “Bob’s a little an-hedonic,” says Dick Teresi, former editor of Omni, the science magazine that Guccione published from 1978 to 1996. And in its moody visual style and muckraking, conspiracy-theory-heavy journalism, Penthouse also happened to be a direct reflection of its complex, unsmiling and mysterious creator. A prime artifact of the glamorously gritty Seventies, Penthouse was the adult magazine that wormed its way into the kinkier recesses of the libidinal subconscious and, arguably, did more to liberate puritan America from its deepest sexual taboos than any magazine before or since. Dark, decadent and more elegantly louche than Hugh Hefner’s magazine ever dreamed of being, Penthouse played bad-boy Rolling Stones to Playboy’s perky Beatles. Unlike Playboy’s airbrushed, schoolboy take on boobs ‘n’ buns, Guccione’s Penthouse made sex look like something that happens between real adults (who weren’t your parents). He is Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione, creator of Penthouse, the greatest adult magazine in history. Obituary: Penthouse Founder Bob Guccione Dies at 79 Today - December 17th, 2003, which happens to be his seventy-third birthday - his business is bankrupt, his house up for sale, his personal debt in the tens of millions of dollars. At the pinnacle of his power, when he was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, he even dreamed of defying death. He is at once a public-relations master and a recluse a street-savvy cynic and a gullible optimist a tough-guy heavy and a sensitive artist. Confining himself to a modest suite of rooms on the mansion’s third floor - a level from which he will sometimes not stir for weeks on end - he sleeps by day and works by night, hunched over a light table in a chaotic, paper-strewn office-garret, poring over slides of naked young women. He rarely leaves “The House,” a vast, vine-covered Upper East Side crypt that is the largest private residence in Manhattan.
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