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Penthouse Mag Owner's Storage Lockers, Containing X-Rated Treasures, Have Been Opened
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 29, 2013
Modified Jan 30, 2013
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Never-before-seen nude photos of Madonna; plans for a Penthouse casino that never got built; mock-up ads attacking Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire; photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger performing some sort of sex act; personal journals; home movies; original paintings; and correspondances with both Dick Cheney and the Unabomber—those are just a few of the things that were found in the late Brooklyn-born Bob Guccione's storage lockers.
According to the NY Post, hedge funder Jeremy Frommer purchased a few of Guccione's old storage lockers in Englewood, NJ, and has "since acquired more of Guccione’s estate and partnered with producer Rick Schwartz to preserve the legacy and launch a potential exhibition and other projects."
Guccione died in 2010, seven years after going bankrupt. His financial troubles started sometime around 1979, when he invested $17.5 million in the x-rated film Caligula—Frommer's treasures include footage and artifacts from the controversial film.
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