Bob Guccione

Penthouse magazine's 1975 "Pet of the Year" who sued publisher Bob Guccione for forcing her to sleep with some of his business associates was awarded $4 million. "Sexual slavery was not a part of her job description," Acting state Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk said in awarding what was believed to be the largest amount in New York history for sexual harassment. Marjorie Lee Thoreson, 37, was under contract with Penthouse International Limited and was once Guccione's live-in lover.

Penthouse International Inc. said Friday that founder Bob Guccione remains editor in chief of the adult magazine despite having resigned the day before as chairman and chief executive officer of its parent company. Guccione, 72, started Penthouse in 1965 and ranks as one of the world's most famous publishers of adult magazines, along with Playboy's Hugh Hefner and Hustler's Larry Flynt.

Bob Guccione, publisher and chairman of Penthouse magazine, announced today that he has agreed to buy the Saturday Review, a magazine dedicated to literature and public affairs for most of its 63-year history. No price was divulged, but a year ago the asking price was reported as $3.5 million. The Review's owner since 1984 has been Manhattan Media Corp. In the last five years, the magazine has had three owners and suspended publication three times.

With all the new and improved--and just plain new--men's magazines glutting the newsstands, has anyone noticed what we've noticed? They're not your dad's men's magazines. More specifically, they're not Bob Guccione Jr.'s dad's men's magazine, otherwise insouciantly referred to as Penthouse. Hey, you know what we're talking about. No, we do not mean that men aren't interested in sex anymore. But Guccione le fils has seen the future and it is sexy, not sexual. More on that later.

Penthouse International Inc. said Friday that founder Bob Guccione remains editor in chief of the adult magazine despite having resigned the day before as chairman and chief executive officer of its parent company. Guccione, 72, started Penthouse in 1965 and ranks as one of the world's most famous publishers of adult magazines, along with Playboy's Hugh Hefner and Hustler's Larry Flynt.

Spin magazine Publisher Bob Guccione Jr. said he will appeal part of the $110,000 sexual-harassment verdict lodged against him and the magazine's ownership group by a federal jury in New York, the New York Post reported. The newspaper also quoted elderly Harlem resident Alma Green, a juror in the three-week trial in U.S. District Court, as saying she initially was the only one of the nine panel members who thought plaintiff Staci Bonner deserved a cash award. "I caught hell," she said.

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a judgment under which Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione won $129 million from Dominion Federal Savings & Loan, wiping out a decision that had threatened to force the McLean, Va.--based thrift out of business. The original judgment, handed down last year in a suit brought by Penthouse International Ltd., exceeded Dominion's net worth. Had it been upheld, it might have forced regulators to step in and compel a sale of the institution.

In a mixed verdict in the sexual harassment trial of Spin magazine and its publisher, Bob Guccione Jr., a federal jury Wednesday awarded $110,000 in compensatory damages and back pay to a former Spin employee but declined to assess punitive damages. After five grueling days of deliberation in U.S.

It's war between MCA Records and Spin magazine. Incensed by a recent story in Manhattan Inc. where Spin publisher Bob Guccione Jr. was quoted as saying, "The music business is a whore, so remember you've got to treat it like a whore," three MCA Records execs have launched a counterattack against the back-in-business music magazine.

Spin magazine Publisher Bob Guccione Jr. said he will appeal part of the $110,000 sexual-harassment verdict lodged against him and the magazine's ownership group by a federal jury in New York, the New York Post reported. The newspaper also quoted elderly Harlem resident Alma Green, a juror in the three-week trial in U.S. District Court, as saying she initially was the only one of the nine panel members who thought plaintiff Staci Bonner deserved a cash award. "I caught hell," she said.

In a mixed verdict in the sexual harassment trial of Spin magazine and its publisher, Bob Guccione Jr., a federal jury Wednesday awarded $110,000 in compensatory damages and back pay to a former Spin employee but declined to assess punitive damages. After five grueling days of deliberation in U.S.

In the hour that the Branch Davidian compound burned to the ground, the Clinton presidency came to a sobering crystallization. Like a rubber band stretched over 51 of the First 100 Days that we love to measure new presidents by, the apocalyptic images from Waco, Tex., suddenly snapped the nation into reality.

For young adults in America to have an opportunity in this country, it is imperative that George Bush be voted out of office on Nov. 3. If Bush, who openly displays his political obligations, is reelected, he will sell off those parts of the American soul and future he has already mortgaged. And I say that without one wit of enthusiasm for Bill Clinton. In my opinion, Clinton has done very little to inspire any particular hope other than that he might unseat Bush.

Penthouse magazine's 1975 "Pet of the Year" who sued publisher Bob Guccione for forcing her to sleep with some of his business associates was awarded $4 million. "Sexual slavery was not a part of her job description," Acting state Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk said in awarding what was believed to be the largest amount in New York history for sexual harassment. Marjorie Lee Thoreson, 37, was under contract with Penthouse International Limited and was once Guccione's live-in lover.

Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt allegedly paid a flamboyant soldier of fortune $1 million to kill singer Frank Sinatra, Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner and two other celebrities, authorities disclosed Wednesday. The November, 1983, plot was immediately canceled, however, when Flynt's business manager stopped payment on the check Flynt had written to the proposed hit man, who had once worked for him as a security guard, Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators said.

Bob Guccione Jr., editor and publisher of Spin magazine, was injured Monday when he sideswiped a car on an off-ramp of the Santa Ana Freeway, tore down a freeway sign and fence and smashed into another car in a parking lot, authorities said. A passenger in Guccione's rented 1989 Saab convertible suffered minor injuries. The California Highway Patrol identified her as Anita Rao of Los Angeles. Guccione Jr.

The attorney for Hustler publisher Larry Flynt said Thursday that a $1-million check that Flynt gave a soldier of fortune was a joke and that a story that it was payment for killing Frank Sinatra and three publishers was concocted later. Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators say Flynt allegedly wrote the check on Nov. 14, 1983, to Mitchell Livingston WerBell III for the slaying of Sinatra, Playboy publisher Hugh M.