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Penthouse Magazine Founder Bob Guccione Dies at 79
Published October 20, 2010
| Associated Press
DALLAS -- Bob Guccione, who founded Penthouse magazine and created an erotic corporate empire around it, only to see it crumble as his investments soured and the world of *advertiser censored* turned toward video and the Internet, died Wednesday. He was 79.
A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano. His wife, April Dawn Warren Guccione, had said he had battled lung cancer for several years....
Published October 20, 2010
| Associated Press
DALLAS -- Bob Guccione, who founded Penthouse magazine and created an erotic corporate empire around it, only to see it crumble as his investments soured and the world of *advertiser censored* turned toward video and the Internet, died Wednesday. He was 79.
A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano. His wife, April Dawn Warren Guccione, had said he had battled lung cancer for several years....