Penthouse models laid bare horrific accusations against multimillionaire founder Bob Guccione
Date: 2023-08-29 Author: Karina Ziganova Categories: NEWS 18+, WEBCAMS & MODELS
A new documentary about the life of Penthouse magazine owner Bob Guccione has given us a dark look at his life. In the center of the story was a story about persuading and forcing young models to have sexual intercourse, as well as to live in a billionaire's mansion located near New York.
Penthouse Confidential is a four-part limited series that will air on A&E and spotlight a sleazy adult magazine owner to face off against Hugh Heffner's 1965 Playboy.
At the height of his fame and fortune, multi-billionaire Guccione, who at the height of his success was worth an estimated $400 million, lived with his third spouses, Katie Keaton, in Manhattan's largest private residence, 22,000 sq. ft.
But far stranger things were happening outside the doors of the stately home: Former penthouse tenants claimed to have been shown bestiality pornography and persuaded to act as number X.
Jane Hargrave, who was once part of the penthouse and was his former pet, said she was forced to watch bestiality porn with Guccione while Keaton's wife was away.
In 1975, she was only 18 years old, and at that time she lived in the dressing room of Guccione for four years.
“He invited me to the master bedroom when Katy was away for a couple of days,” she recalled. There was a huge bed, which was located near the throne. It was about twice as large as the royal one."
“In fact, he had video footage of young ladies having sex with animals. Girl in the company of a pig. It never occurred to me that pigs have a corkscrew. In my opinion, he wanted to shock me or something like that.
“He started coming into my room and showing a desire to be closer,” she said. I wasn't sure I felt comfortable with him. Because of the fact that Cathy was in the other room and I was completely upset by my perception of what was happening.
After that, Guccione was married four times. The first wife - Lilianne Becker - at a late age for a teenager.
He married the British Muriel Hudson, in marriage they had four children: Bob Jr., Nick (later became Tony) and Nina.
In 1979, after a divorce, Guccione married his third wife, Keaton. It was a long time ago and they have been in a relationship for many years.
Keaton succumbed to complications from surgery to correct an obstruction in her digestive tract, long after battling cancer for more than 58 years.
Hargrave announced that he had starred in the controversial Helen Mirren and John Gilgray erotic film Caligula, which flopped at the box office. This picture was spent 17 million dollars of his own funds.
“I never imagined that I would suck someone's shit. I have never even met him like this before, ”she said in the film’s orgy scene with frightening frankness.
I was only 19 years old. I could not understand how insignificant I was for the person who was supposed to trust me.
The claim that Guccione asked her to throw a golden shower on his bed comes from another former "penthouse pet" Sheila Kennedy.
“Bob did unusual things that turned him on,” she concluded. “Kathy was in Europe one night and I decided to go down to him after she had gone to bed. I don't know how he started it, but he managed to say to me, "I would really like to do something for you."
“He asks the question: “Have you ever heard of the golden shower?”
At first, he took Sheila's things, but she refused to take them because she was very wet as a child and asked to take all this to the bath.
“He was completely naked and had all the gold chains on him, completely naked. And I just got smeared in it,” she said. “I think this is a strange fetish. He was completely excited.
According to Sheila, she was fired from the penthouse mansion after having sex with him and his wife Kathy at her request.
“He finally broke me,” she said. “That was the first time I thought, ‘Don’t do this,’ but I knew I wouldn’t. I just knew that I would leave without trying to do it.
"If there's one thing I regret about Penthouse, it's this," she continued. “It was only after I was with Katy that they fired me. It's not clear to me why. It made me feel shock, yes it is.
Guccione's own children have shared some heartbreaking stories from their growing up years.
The only daughter, Nina, shared her father's story about how he forced PenthousePets to take birth control pills.
“He said it made the girls look more voluptuous the night before filming and that made sense to me. Because I know your breasts are getting a little bigger,” she said.
But I thought that he was probably trying to prevent the girls from getting pregnant. It was terrible, but he didn't care.
The New York Times quoted him in April 2002 as saying that over the past three decades, Penthouse has earned between $3.5 billion and $4 billion.
But by the late 1990s, Penthouse's circulation began to decline due to the rise of online pornography.
The parent organization of General Media magazine filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2003, and less than two months later, Penthouse was listed for sale by creditors.
In November of the following year, Guccione decided to step down as chairman and CEO of Penthouse International, he resigns.
On October 20, 2010, Guccione died at the age of 79 after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
