Adult movie king’s 42-room pad where he lived with girlfriend and hid mistress
The notorious owner of a raunchy magazine set up to rival Playboy lived in a 42-room New York City townhouse with his girlfriend, and his mistress in his closet.
Bob Guccione ran the famous Penthouse magazine, a Playboy rival that was so popular it once outsold the notorious mag. Despite his success, however, he died broke and estranged from most of his family in 2010, reports The Sun.
A new documentary called The Secrets of Penthouse has now lifted the curtain on his extravagant lifestyle and the dodgy dealings that went on behind closed doors.
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It also gives a glipse at the decadent Penthouse mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side where Guccione lived with his kids and partner Kathy Keeton, an executive at the company, while a young British model called Jane Hargrave, lived in the couple’s “dressing room.”
The room was linked to the bedroom through an adjoining shower room and Guccione would come to 18-year-old Jane's bed while Kathy slept next door.
“When Kathy was away he asked me into the master bedroom,” she told The Sun.
The same publication reported that the house was decorated with imported marble and £100m worth of art, including an original Picasso.
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The main bathroom even reportedly featured a £200,000 solid gold bathtub with 22 karat gold taps and toilet roll holders. Judy Garland’s gold-plated grand piano was also another flash trinket on display.
Guccione’s children Nina and Nick, who star in the documentary, say they were exposed to sex from a young age and Nick would even sleep with their dad's models, known as the Pets.
"Our family revolved around sex, which is kind of creepy," Nina, now 63, confessed. Meanwhile, younger brother Nick claims he was having sex with X-rated stars from the age of 15.
"We weren’t allowed to 'fraternise' with the Pets but when I was 15, I had the opportunity to have my first girlfriend and she was a Penthouse Pet.
She was 23," he revealed. "Most 15-year-olds could only fantasise about having sex with one of them, I was having sex with all of them."
Penthouse was founded in 1965, nine years after Guccione moved to London from New York after meeting Nina and Nick's British mum. It was a direct competitor to Playboy, run by Hugh Hefner, but was known as the more raunchy of the pair.
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