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6 unusual facts about Penthouse


Al Goldstein

In his 2011 book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! - of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, an American Tale of Sex and Wonder, former Screw writer and editor Mike Edison documents Goldstein's rise and fall against the successes of his peers Larry Flynt of Hustler, Bob Guccione of Penthouse, and Hugh Hefner of Playboy.

Bruce Venture

Following his debut in April 2010 with the production company Kink.com, Bruce Venture has been highlighted for its qualities and “Passion-Aggression” style for the major U.S. Adult Networks and Production companies such as 21Sextury, Bang Bros, Brazzers, Evil Angel, Fame Digitals, Hustler Video, Kink, Lethal Hardcore, Mega Site Pass, Naughty America, New Sensations, Penthouse, Porn Pros, Premium Pass, Puba, Reality Kings, Vivid Entertainment and many others.

Hajime Sorayama

He worked with movie makers in Hollywood on fantasy science fiction projects, including a movie about Penthouse.

Penthouse

The Penthouse, a 1967 film starring Suzy Kendall and Terence Morgan

Penthouse apartment, a special apartment on the top floor of a building

Sheila Kennedy

Sheila Kennedy is a model and actress who was the December 1981 Penthouse Pet of the Month and the 1983 Pet of the Year.


235 Van Buren

It also has a penthouse on the top floor which was featured on an episode of HGTV's House Hunters TV Show.

A Contract with God

He abandons his faith, shaves his beard, and lives a life as a miserly businessman in a penthouse with a gentile mistress.

Arthur Upham Pope

By 1927 he and Phyllis returned to San Francisco and pursued additional design projects, including an ornate Persian-palace-style interior for the penthouse of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and the interior of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, where they made extensive use of Middle Eastern kilims as well as Native American artifacts.

Bob Guccione, Jr.

(born September 19, 1955) is the eldest son of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.

In 1978, after two attempts at going into the publishing business on his own, the young, London-raised Guccione went to work for Penthouse publisher General Media International, a company owned by his father, Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.

Catseye

The battle, held in the New Warrior's penthouse, came down to a game of numbers and Catseye scored one for her team by viciously defeating Night Thrasher, easily tearing through his reinforced armor.

Edward J. Berwind House

It served as headquarters for the American Heart Association until 1978 when it was reconverted to residential use with a new penthouse.

Emílio Garrastazu Médici

Official censorship tightened its grip over the media, and the import of the men's magazines Playboy, Penthouse and Lui, as well as the West German news magazine Der Spiegel, was banned because they offended “morality and proper behavior”.

Faust Landmark

Plans to place a large replica of a 'Fez' Cap over the penthouse, at the base of the flagpole, which was abandoned as impractical.

Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story

Interview subjects include former Penthouse editor Lynn Barber and Guccione's sons.

Gene Derwood

The couple lived in a penthouse of an office building on Water Street.

George Keister

Built for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artist Everett Shinn, and a ten-room duplex penthouse apartment that Belasco utilized as combination living quarters/office space.

Hooterville

Green Acres (1965–71) was about a wealthy New York City couple, lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his diamond-clad wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), who give up their Park Avenue penthouse for a run-down farm, "The Old Haney Place".

Juliet Cariaga

She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.

Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.

Keeton was a case for defamation brought by Kathy Keeton, a New York resident and publisher of Penthouse magazine, against the nationally distributed Hustler magazine.

LGBT history in Singapore

As a token of this restriction, to placate social conservatives, prominent porn websites such as Playboy and Penthouse were blocked.

Lloyd Wells

Wells cites his most memorable jobs, naming two appearances at the White House (with Tennessee Ernie Ford) and playing on Sesame Street and The Electric Company form the top penthouse of Radio City Music Hall.

Lunch of Blood

Edward de Bono: "‘I find everything beautiful, everything,’ he says. ‘I am very much against the notion that for something to be beautiful, it has to be in a frame in an art gallery with someone reviewing it. Beauty may be the elegance of a mathematical solution, it can be a Penthouse centrefold, design, a rainy day … anything.’"

Mercantile National Bank Building

Mercantile Bank owner and founder Robert L. Thornton constructed his own penthouse level in the upper floors.

Michelle Bauer

Bauer's Penthouse centerfold appearance led to acting for the Playboy Channel and a film try-out for director Fred Olen Ray.

Mike McGuirk

McGuirk left the WWF in 1993, reported by Penthouse magazine to be because she refused sexual advances made upon her by Vince McMahon, around the same time Boni Blackstone was hired as an interviewer.

Oscar Williams

They lived in a penthouse of an office building on Water Street.

Riggatron

Originally referred to as the Demountable Tokamak Fusion Core (DTFC), the name was later changed to refer to the Riggs Bank, which funded development along with Bob Guccione, publisher of the adult magazine Penthouse.

Robert A. Altman

After leaving the practice of law, Altman served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of FriendFinder Networks Inc. (formerly Penthouse Media Group, Inc.) until December 1998.

Roberto Madrazo

Shortly after Gordillo's denunciation, the Mexico City newspaper Reforma published an article that condemned Madrazo as the owner of a luxury penthouse in a prestigious highrise tower in Miami worth eight million pesos ($800,000 U.S. dollars) and three luxury apartments in Mexico City with the alleged value of seven million pesos.

Swire Hotels

Designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the hotel has 99 rooms, including a two-floor penthouse, two restaurants and two bars.

Symphony Center

From 1907 through 1996 the ninth-floor penthouse of the building served as the home of the Cliff Dwellers Club, with interior architecture by Howard Van Doren Shaw and the first significant mural of John Warner Norton.

Tatzu Nishi

Nishi has built his fabricated hotels and apartments around historical monuments in Europe, Australia, Singapore and most recently in Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City: a penthouse apartment surrounding Gaetano Russo's statue of Christopher Columbus.

Teri Byrne

She appeared in a non-nude Nitro Girls pictorial in the September 1998 issue of Penthouse, along with Melissa Bellin, Chae An, and Kimberly Page.

The Ilikai

The show's star, Jack Lord, is standing on the Ilikai penthouse balcony when a helicopter dramatically rises up behind him.

The Penguin's a Jinx

Later, at the Batcave, as the Penguin and his "Finks" cleverly eavesdrop courtesy of a bug he planted on The Batbrella, Batman and Robin decide that the Penguin's scheme is kidnapping actress Dawn Robbins, who is in town at a penthouse apartment.

The Penthouse Suite

The Penthouse Suite is a library music theme by the English composer Syd Dale.

Tomm Coker

Throughout the 1990s he worked on such titles as Gen 13 Bootleg, Nightfall: The Black Chronicles and Penthouse Comix.

Urca, Rio de Janeiro

The most famous is Roberto Carlos, the Brazilian Julio Iglesias, who lives in a relatively modest penthouse apartment on the seafront and, devout Catholic as he is, can sometimes be caught singing in Urca's only church.

Vicca

Vicca is noted for her onscreen performances with her girlfriend, fellow Russian actress Nikita Gross, and for being December 1998's American Penthouse Pet of the Month and 2001 Penthouse Pet of the Year runner-up.

Victoria Zdrok

She is the second centerfold, after Linn Thomas, to be both a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet.

Who's Got the Action?

Many of the scenes were filmed on location in Flood’s/Knight’s luxurious penthouse apartments in the historic Talmadge building on Los Angeles’ Wilshire Boulevard; much of the automobile driving shown runs up and down Wilshire.


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