The founder argues in favor of Penthouse, saying most Miss America winners fade into oblivion.

Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione on fame, scandal and who gets to publish what in America. August 11th, 1994.

Guccione joins Geraldo with contributing Editor Alan Dershowitz to defend 25 years of Penthouse - from Omni and Longevity to his Manhattan mansion, art collection and painting studio. He claims Penthouse magazine helped liberate sexuality in the U.S., launched Vanessa Williams to international fame after Miss America, and gave women a choice to pose for career, ego or principle - not just money.

On stage: 25th-anniversary Pet Lee Anderson with boyfriend boxer Vinnie Pacienza, 1990 Pet Amy Lynn, 1982 Pet of the Year Davina Celeste, 1977 Pet Dottie Meyer, and 1994 Pet Alex Taylor. They debate motherhood and modeling, what Pet really means, cosmetic surgery, body image, and what happens after modeling - business, school and managing other Pets.

The flashpoints: publishing photos from Tonya Harding's wedding video and where privacy ends for public figures, with Dershowitz on free speech; author Barbara Taylor Bradford by phone on how she helped Guccione get into publishing; Guccione on rival Playboy founder Hugh Hefner; Dershowitz and Guccione on the Mike Tyson appeal and Dershowitz declining on the O.J. Simpson defense team; Dottie Meyer on testifying before the Meese Commission; and wife / business partner Kathy Keaton on running the company, electronic media and virtual reality, and life in the famous mansion.

A raw 90s daytime time capsule on publishing, celebrity scandal, feminism and free expression.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro: The man behind Penthouse magazine
01:37 Art vs Controversy
03:00 Claim: Liberating Sexuality
03:40 Audience Pushback: Impact on Women
05:40 Vanessa Williams: Who Launched Her?
06:55 Inside the Mansion and Art Collection
08:34 Meet the Pets, Past and Present
10:20 51 alan dershowitz on Free Speech
16:42 Motherhood and Modeling
19:26 Tonya Harding Photos and Privacy
25:17 Why the Name Pet?
27:18 61 barbara taylor bradford Calls In
35:16 Hefner, Tyson and O.J.
39:50 Meese Commission Testimony
41:10 Kathy Keaton on Business and Future

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