Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, Playboy's Hugh Hefner had 'no animosity' in battle for sex empire, doc says

Nicholas Guccione, the son of Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione, looks back at his upbringing and late father in the new docuseries, "Secrets of Penthouse."

"My father was involved with this very controversial, groundbreaking business," Guccione’s son, Nicholas Guccione, told Fox News Digital. "At a very young age, I didn’t quite grasp it as I was growing up in England. But when we moved to America, it hit me like a ton of bricks." Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.

The Brooklyn-born Guccione spent several months in a Catholic seminary before dropping out to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He headed to London in 1960 where he began photographing models. Guccione was working as a cartoonist and a manager of self-service laundries where he got the idea of launching an adult magazine that would cater to "regular guys."