Lilith
04-14-2005, 12:21 PM
(submitted by gekkogecko)
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hard-core porn pioneer Al
Goldstein, who went from multimillionaire owner of
Screw magazine to being homeless on the streets of
Manhattan after his sleaze empire collapsed, is making
a comeback.
Goldstein, 69, last employed as a greeter at a Kosher
deli and as a wholesale bagel salesman working on
commission, is back promoting smut, this time over the
medium that helped push him from his porn pedestal --
the Internet.
Goldstein was named on Monday as national marketing
director for XonDemand, an Internet video-on-demand
porn Web site. The site is an Internet version of the
old-fashioned peep shows that populated the once-seedy
stretch of 42nd Street west of Times Square. Customers
can pay a per-minute charge for viewing a pornographic
firm or order the whole movie.
Goldstein built an $11 million fortune off the
now-defunct Screw, which he founded in 1968, and New
York cable TV show "Midnight Blue." He went bankrupt
more than a year ago, blaming his fall on the
proliferation of porn on the Internet.
Legal problems have also plagued the former porn king,
who was forced to sell his $2.5 million Florida
mansion and New York townhouse to pay off debts.
Goldstein, who had taken to sleeping in Central Park
and at homeless shelters, was charged with shoplifting
from a Manhattan bookstore last year.
He was convicted in 2002 of harassing a former
secretary, whom he accused of stealing, by disparaging
her on his cable TV show, printing her home address in
his magazine and threatening her over the telephone.
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hard-core porn pioneer Al
Goldstein, who went from multimillionaire owner of
Screw magazine to being homeless on the streets of
Manhattan after his sleaze empire collapsed, is making
a comeback.
Goldstein, 69, last employed as a greeter at a Kosher
deli and as a wholesale bagel salesman working on
commission, is back promoting smut, this time over the
medium that helped push him from his porn pedestal --
the Internet.
Goldstein was named on Monday as national marketing
director for XonDemand, an Internet video-on-demand
porn Web site. The site is an Internet version of the
old-fashioned peep shows that populated the once-seedy
stretch of 42nd Street west of Times Square. Customers
can pay a per-minute charge for viewing a pornographic
firm or order the whole movie.
Goldstein built an $11 million fortune off the
now-defunct Screw, which he founded in 1968, and New
York cable TV show "Midnight Blue." He went bankrupt
more than a year ago, blaming his fall on the
proliferation of porn on the Internet.
Legal problems have also plagued the former porn king,
who was forced to sell his $2.5 million Florida
mansion and New York townhouse to pay off debts.
Goldstein, who had taken to sleeping in Central Park
and at homeless shelters, was charged with shoplifting
from a Manhattan bookstore last year.
He was convicted in 2002 of harassing a former
secretary, whom he accused of stealing, by disparaging
her on his cable TV show, printing her home address in
his magazine and threatening her over the telephone.