{"id":35016,"date":"2018-06-30T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/?p=35016"},"modified":"2018-06-21T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T22:33:06","slug":"penthouse-sold-at-auction-to-online-porn-company-for-11-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/penthouse-sold-at-auction-to-online-porn-company-for-11-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Penthouse Sold At Auction To Online Porn Company For $11.2 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/06\/07\/penthouse-sold-at-auction-to-online-porn-titan-for-11-2m\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/afp_14n5iq_158833217.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&amp;h=683&amp;crop=1\" width=\"388\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: New York Post<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The owners of more than 43 porn sites, including Bang Bros, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/06\/07\/penthouse-sold-at-auction-to-online-porn-titan-for-11-2m\/\">won the auction<\/a> to take over Penthouse. The porn company outbid Pornhub, Hustler, and Dream Media for a cool $11.2 million. They now own the assets of Penthouse Global Media, which includes all the X-rated back content of the magazine, whose most recent cover features porn star Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>Penthouse declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy recently, only two years after a group bought the title and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/01\/22\/penthouse-backpedals-on-plan-to-shutter-print-magazine\/\">resurrected the print edition<\/a>. The 53-year-old magazine was founded originally to be a more explicit hardcore version of Hugh Hefner\u2019s Playboy, and at its peak, Penthouse sold more than 5 million copies a month to Playboy\u2019s peak of 7 million. \u201cWith the company debt-free, we are ready to grow,\u201d said the former Chief Executive who plans to stay on under the new owners. \u201cThe new owners are committed to maintaining the four business units \u2014 publishing, broadcast, licensing and digital,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some explicit adult entertainment? 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