Penthouse Magazine Founder Bob Guccione Dead At 79

AP via CBS 11 ^ | October 20, 2010 | AP

[John W]

PLANO, Texas (AP) ― Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione has died in a suburban Dallas hospital at age 79. A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died Wednesday at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano after a long battle with cancer. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Guccione introduced Penthouse to the American public in 1969, at the height of the feminist movement and the sexual revolution.

[GeronL]

gone to hell, good

[Celtic Cross]

Dirty old buzzard.

Lord have mercy.

[BullDog108]

RIP John. However, something tells me that he may be gnashing his teeth right now...

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[digger48]

Dear Penthouse,

I never thought this would really happen to me......

[lookout88]

People die

[US Navy Vet]

I thought that the air smelled cleaner tonight. I hope that reprobate Hugh Hefner repents and then dies soon.

[JPG]

72 Pets...and they all look like Coons.

[grey_whiskers]

Say hello to Uncle Ted down there, Bob.

Nonetheless, prayers for his soul.

Reluctantly.

g_w

[Rebelbase]

If they come in three’s, there’s Larry Flynt and Hugh.

[grey_whiskers]

Like *PING*, dude(ettes?) (*)

(*) sorry, I can't remember whether all three of you are ladies and I am too embarrassed to ask -- particularly given the topic of the thread.

See especially post #8...

g_w

[BookmanTheJanitor]

...but his hair "lives" on.

[SoldierDad]

Flynt should die a slow and agonizing death IMHO. And, then spend eternity in agony also.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Bob was famous for getting a bunch of famous actors to appear in what he claimed would be a classy, and only mildly bawdy, retelling of the Caligula story. He stuck a bunch of hard core scenes in without their knowledge, resulting in all of the major actors disavowing the movie.

I used to subscribe to Games magazine a loooong time ago. It got bought by Omni and I cancelled my subscription in protest.

Games magazine died soon after, but I think that it has come back from the dead.

Bob won't.

[dforest]

oh bye.

[43north]

It would only be poetic justice if he died of prostate cancer...

[grey_whiskers]

"A long battle with cancer"...

Cancer of the what, exactly? (Did it fall off?)

g_w

[Rocky]

From Penthouse to the basement. It was inevitable.