Guccione Gurgles: Penthouse Empire Is Finally Spent

Over the past 15 years, Robert Guccione’s once-lucrative porn

empire has fizzled and is no longer the cash machine it once was.  As chairman and chief executive of General Media International

Inc., which publishes Penthouse, Mr.

Guccione could havesoldthe magazinefor perhaps half a billion dollars less

thantwo decades ago. But instead he held on, diversified Read More