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Earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, a feature-length documentary called Filthy Gorgeous: The Extraordinary World of Bob Guccione premiered. The film tells the story of the adventurous and provocative Penthouse magazine founder and aims to go beyond the common image of Guccione—that of a gold-chain wearing pornographer—and discover a more complex figure.

After building a media empire and amassing a fortune, Guccione died nearly penniless. His wild investments—one in a nuclear-fusion reactor—ultimately led to his financial ruin, but also reveal an untold side of the man: a man who explored the arts and sciences with abandon and one desperate to know more about the mysteries of the world around him.

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