

Earlier this week, the company said it was putting the famed Playboy Mansion up for sale for $200 million, but with the understanding that the magazine’s 89-year-old founder would be allowed to stay for the rest of his life. In recent years, Playboy’s parent company was also taken private and largely re-imagined as a licensing business after private equity firm Rizvi Traverse stepped in. “This move will keep Penthouse competitive in the future and will seamlessly combine our unmatched pictorial features and editorial content with our video and broadcast offerings,” FriendFinder CEO

Penthouse will also shutter its New York offices and will be relocated to FriendFinder’s Los Angeles offices. Playboy now has a circulation of about 800,000, down from a height of 5.6 million in 1975, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. It would top its rival Playboy’s sales to start the decade, but missteps would cripple the magazine’s image before the eighties were over. Penthouse, whose print circulation regularly topped 5 million copies a month in its heyday, is no longer publicly audited. Penthouse Pets 1980-19’s saw highs and lows for Penthouse magazine. We will follow up your report/abuse within 24 hours. In 2013, FriendFinder Networks, which also operates a variety of adult social-networking sites, filed for bankruptcy and ceased being publicly traded. If this picture is your intelectual property (copyright infringement) or child pornography / immature images, please send email to cloudygirl19 for abuse. Penthouse, which once sold over 5 million copies, has endured a rocky path over the past decade since founder Bob Guccione filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and lost control of the company. They were among the first media outlets to see their audiences slip away as wide varieties of adult content became available online. The increased focus on digital comes just months after Playboy announced that it would no longer publish nude photographs as part of a broad redesign that will be unveiled in March.Īdult magazines have long struggled with adapting to the digital era. The beleaguered magazine had lost it’s lead over Playboy due to the scandals of the 80s. Stacey Cameron, Penthouse, August, 1974 Francis Cannon (Fiona Watson) Penthouse March 1974 Lavinia Douglas, Penthouse, November, 1974 Lindsay Rudland, Penthouse, 1973 Molly McCreading, Men Only 1976 Wendy Blodgett, Penthouse, June, 1975 Laura Doone Penthouse 1974 Stacey Cameron Penthouse August 1974 sexy smiling blonde hot dp anal. Ezra Shashoua, FriendFinder’s chief financial officer, said the company plans to continue publishing the print magazine “for the foreseeable future,” though he acknowledged uncertainty about its long-term prospects. Penthouse Pets 1990-1999 Visual Guide The 90s saw a change in direction for Penthouse. Rebecca Davenport (Deanna Baker) Penthouse August.
