Porn Pioneer Goldstein Back in Business - Come full Circle:

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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.

Regardless of all his troubles and alleged faults, Al Goldstein in his editorials has consistently spoken truth to power. In this age when we are governed by tin plated Nazis we need more like Al. "I'm with you in Rockland. I'm with you in Rockland."

This is old news, but his quest for "truth" was nothing more than a way to line his filthy pockets. Nothing wrong in that, but don't be fooled for a minute that this cretin had any other convictions beyond greed. If he couldn't rail about those in power to make a buck, he'd sell bagels, shoplift or pimp out his mother. Al Slobstein is just a pathetic whale who deserves NO sympathy or credit for shit.

Greeter??? I wouldn't shake his fucking hand if I was a Leper!!!!

Al Goldstein scares me. He may be 70 but he looks hard as nails. I bet he carries a gun.