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Bob Guccione's net worth is a staggering $400 million. Bob managed this immense wealth as the owner, CEO, publisher, and chairman of the board of Pent House International Inc.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, the late Bod Guccione was raised a Catholic by his father, an accountant, and mother who was a housewife. Bob attended Blair Academy in New Jersey and had at some point contemplated being a priest, but changed his mind.
He was, during his lifetime, able to marry four wives and have 5 children with the first two. He began as a cartoonist for the London American before putting up his own adult magazine company that published Penthouse, The Omni, The Viva, and The Longevity magazines. He started Penthouse in England in 1965, then afterward in America in 1966. Bob sought to out-do the playboy by focusing on more sensational and well-investigated stories. Before his death in Plano, Texas, 2010, he had left a lasting memory in the magazine world.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2019 |
Sale of Asset |
Selling price of Bob Guccione and his wife's house on East 67th Street between Madison and Fifth avenues |
$29,500,000 |
|
2008 |
Sale of Asset |
Sale of Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, Phil Falcone and family's 25,000-square-foot residence in New York City |
$49,000,000 |
|
2004 |
Salary |
Bob Guccione's annual salary from The Penthouse magazine |
$1,000,000 |
|
1993 |
Sale of Asset |
Sale of Bob Guccione's bonds in the company The Penthouse magazine |
$80,000,000 |
|
1980 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Bob Guccione's Picasso painting at Sotheby's |
$1,050,000 |
|
1976 |
Asset |
Bob Guccione's investment in the controversial historical epic pornographic film, Caligula, with Malcolm McDowell in the title role and a supporting cast including Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole |
$17,500,000 |