![]() ![]() “The bunny took a big nosedive off a cliff,” she said. While Playboy recently abandoned full frontal nudity, Penthouse has no plans to go that route, Holland said. Penthouse Letters, which publishes adult-themed fiction with erotic pictures, will chop three issues and publish just 10 times annually. While staying in print, Penthouse will drop its production schedule to 10 times a year from 11. In addition, Holland is working on deals for 10 Penthouse cable channels to supplement the 13 licensed clubs, including one in New York. Holland is pushing hard to develop Penthouse digital - which she said languished under the old ownership. Layout, design and copy editing will all be done Down Under by Filthy Gorgeous Media, headed by Damien Costos, she said. “Most of the production work is being outsourced to our Australian partner, who can do the work at 20 percent of the cost of doing it in the United States,” Holland said. ![]() Raphie Aronowitz, who had worked for the fashion designer Ecko and at Complex magazine, according to Holland, is Penthouse’s new editor. 19, she shipped the April issue to the printer. Holland said that as soon as the deal closed on Feb. “We have a long-term commitment to this magazine,” she said. ![]() “Absolutely, we’re staying in print,” Holland told Media Ink on Thursday.įriendFinder last month had fired the entire New York publishing staff - including longtime Editor Barbara Rice - fueling speculation that the title, newly relocated to Los Angeles, was going all digital. That’s the word from Chief Executive Kelly Holland, whose Penthouse Global Media recently purchased the title from FriendFinder Networks. ET on A&E.Penthouse magazine’s print edition lives! “Secrets of Penthouse” airs September 4 and 5 at 9 p.m. There’s a sense of karma, perhaps, in watching his almost Shakespearean descent from the Penthouse to the poor house, provided one doesn’t spend too much time dwelling on the voyeurism that’s central to making “Secrets of” such a viable concept. Guccione died of cancer in 2010, living long enough to see the empire he had meticulously built essentially collapse around him. Other sordid chapters include the lawsuit brought by former Pet Anneka DiLorenzo, who accused Guccione of treating her as a “sex slave,” forcing her to sleep with men to advance his business interests. “The hatred was visceral,” recalls Peter Bloch, Penthouse’s longtime editor, one of several former employees who detail Guccione’s bullheadedness and misguided decisions. There’s also a cultural aspect to the Penthouse saga, as Guccione managed to simultaneously draw the wrath of feminists as well as evangelicals, punctuated by the episode in which he published explicit photos of Vanessa Williams, the first Black Miss America, prompting her to relinquish her crown. Not surprisingly, “Secrets of Penthouse” is most interesting in the “fall” part of Guccione’s business, as he foolishly expanded into areas separate from the magazine – sinking money into the star-studded “Caligula,” basically just a glorified porn film amid a more explicit cinematic wave in the 1970s and losing millions fruitlessly trying to open an Atlantic City casino. Nick Guccione, interviewed for the docuseries "Secrets of Penthouse." A&E Not that they listened to him, according to his son Nick, who says he “didn’t have a father” growing up, and, along with his sister Nina, speaks freely about personal struggles related to his upbringing. Indeed, while Guccione carried on relationships with a number of his employees, and the discussion includes his unorthodox sexual appetites, he expressly forbade his sons from fraternizing with the magazine’s models. Guccione launched Penthouse in Europe, offering more explicit photography than the better-established Playboy before jumping the Atlantic in 1969, targeting its rival with cheeky “We’re going rabbit hunting” ads.įor a time, there was ample room for both, allowing Guccione to earn millions – investing much of it in priceless artwork – and occupy a lavish New York mansion with Penthouse “Pets” (that is, its featured models) among the occasional residents, while proceeding to alienate himself from his four children. As trashy as one might expect, it’s also a rise-and-fall story, told heavily through Guccione’s children, about an empire built and lost. Having carved out a niche in vaguely sleazy “Secrets of” docuseries beginning with Hugh Hefner and Playboy, A&E finds an ideal and perhaps inevitable playground for the franchise with “Secrets of Penthouse,” which basically serves as a four-part biography of the magazine’s founder, Bob Guccione. ![]()
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