Penthouse magazine began publication in 1965, in the UK and in North America in 1969, an attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner‘s Playboy. The magazine’s centerfoldmodels are known as Penhouse Pets and customarily wear a distinctive necklace inspired by this logo.
The complete assets of Penhouse Global Media were bought out by the owners of in June 2018 after winning a bankruptcy auction bid.The Penthouse logo is a stylized key which incorporates both the Mars and Venus symbols in its design. Beginning in September 1969, it was sold in the United States as well. It combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographicpictorials that, in the 1990s, temporarily evolved into hardcore.Although Guccione was American, the magazine was founded in 1965 in the United Kingdom. Penhouse is a men’s magazine founded by Robert C.
