Gore Vidal's Italian films: Roma, Caligula and a gay Ben-Hur
The American writer had several movie mishaps in Europe, but he toasted his collaboration with Fellini
October 2010
Paul Raymond and Bob Guccione were threatened with blackmail
Police release details of inept attempt by Irish decorators to blackmail porn barons by pretending to be terrorists
Bob Guccione's journey from birthday card to birthday suit
Tom Lamont: The publisher of Penthouse, who died last week, was a pioneer of printed pornography
Bob Guccione obituary
Bob Guccione: A life in pictures
Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, dies
February 2004
Boom and bust (part two)
Boom and bust
January 2004
German sex shop chain makes $62m play for Penthouse group
Bob Guccione is facing a battle for control of Penthouse, the magazine he founded in the 1960s as a rival to Hugh Hefner's Playboy, reports Mark Milner.
November 2003
Guccione makes way for older man
Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine, yesterday hung up his medallion and resigned as chief executive of the adult entertainment empire.
August 2003
Trailblazer that took sex down a notch
Penthouse comes unstuck
July 2003
So long, Medallion Man...
Financial follies and internet competition have driven Penthouse chief Bob Guccione from porn to pawn. Now his empire is on the brink of collapse.
April 2002
Boom and bust
Bob Guccione made a fortune out of showing the parts that Playboy would not. But the internet left Penthouse looking tame and now he faces eviction from his $40m mansion. Oliver Burkeman on the fall of a porn king.
July 2001
Hard times in skin
Penthouse porn baron Bob Guccione is heading an empire in crisis, writes Edward Helmore
