2nd Pet of the Month was Kelly McQueen in October 1969.

3rd Pet of the Month was Ulla Lindstrom in November 1969.

2nd Was Stephanie McLean in 1971- Stephanie McLean (married to GP racer Barry Sheen) was also crowned Miss Penthouse Pet for April 1970 and then Penthouse Pet of the Year for 1971. Stephanie has also appeared in Mayfair Magazine.

3rd was Tina McDowell in 1972.

Pia Zadora in October 1983.

Blondie(Debra Harry)in Febuary 1980.

TWO-TIME PETS OF THE MONTH

Corinne Alphen (Jun 78, Aug 81) (POY in the Nov 82 issue)

Cody Carmack (May 81, Jan 84) (POY in the Jan 86 issue)

YOUNGEST POM

Famous Pets of the Month (other than porn stars)

• Lynn Carey (Dec 72) is the daughter of actor Macdonald Carey. She was also the vocalist of the not-very-successful rock band Mama Lion and did most of the female vocals on the soundtrack to Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
• Betsy Harris (Feb 77) is pop singer Terri Nunn, formerly of the band Berlin.   She also appeared in the movie Thank God It's Friday.  Berlin's biggest hit was Take My Breath Away, from the movie Top Gun.
• Tamara Kapitas (Jan 80) is pop singer Carole Davis.  She also posed had posed for a Playmate hopefuls feature appearing in the Feb 78 Playboy under the name Carole Davis. Davis turned down the lead female role in Prince's Purple Rain, (but cowrote a song with him, Slow Love).  She's had albums released by Warner Bros. and Atlantic and has had supporting roles in movies such as Shrimp on the Barbie, Mannequin and The Rapture.
• Sandi Korn (Mar 91) is aka actress Sandra Taylor.
• Natalie Lennox (Jan 93) had starred in the television series American Gladiators before she became POM.
• Traci Lords (Sep 84) is best known for porn work but has made the transition to a relatively successful mainstream acting career.
• Julie Strain (Jun 91) is a successful B-movie actress.
• Alex Taylor (Aug 94), aka Andrea Molinari, is a former Miss New Hampshire USA whose title was taken away after it was learned that she'd been a stripper.
• Joann Witty (Mar 76) is aka actress Priscilla Barnes from TV's Three's Company.

Other hardcore erotic work by Pets (uncertainties included)

Andi Sue Irwin (Sep 93): Hardcore stills of her performing fellatio, taken at the same time as her 1996 b/g Penthouse pictorial, exist.  These either are unpublished or are available through or at the Penthouse members-only site.

Sherry Moran (Apr 81): A cyber-correspondent reports having seen her in a hard-core photo book in the early 80s. No further information is available.

Lydia Schone (Jan 95): At least one hardcore still of her with her tongue apparently touching a guy's penis, taken at the same time as her b/g Penthouse pictorial, exists.  It is either unpublished or available through or at the Penthouse members-only site.

THE POY CYCLE

Models who have been in Playboy and Penthouse

• Deanna Baker (May 72 PMOM, Aug 77 Penthouse as Rebecca Davenport)
• Ursula Buchenfellner (Oct 79 PMOM, Nov 85 Penthouse as Ursula Fellner)
• Teri Weigel (Apr 86 PMOM; May 92 Penthouse)

• Monique Gabrielle (Dec 82) ("On the Scene [Jul 86] and "B-Movie Bimbos [Jul 89] pictorials)

• Sandi Korn (Mar 91) (as Sandra Taylor in Playboy)

• Juliette (Dec 97) (as Erica Lookadoo in X-Girls)

• Gina LaMarca (May 93) ("Biker Babes" pictorial as Gina Severini)

• Amy Lynn (Jun 90) ("Girls of Radio" pictorial)

• Cheryl Rixon ( Dec 77) ("Girls of Rock 'N' Roll" pictorial in Jan 85)

• Seana Ryan (Sep 92) (NSSs)

• Dianna Van Laar (Dec 90) (NSSs)

• Patricia Barrett (Jan 72) (as Cathryn Lacey in the Jun 66 "Girls of Texas" pictorial)

• Lisa Gayle (Oct 96) (Girls of Summer 95)

• Leslie Glass (Feb 92) ("Women of Washington [Nov 88]," "Working Girls [Sep 91]" pictorials)

• Chloe Jones (Apr 98) (NSSs)

• Tamara Kapitas (Jan 80) (in Feb 77 Playboy as Carole Davis)

• Heidi Lynne (Oct 94) (aka Heidi Staley in Playboy NSSs)

• Mason Marconi (Oct 97) (aka Amber Erickson in Playboy NSSs)

• Theresa Presley (Apr 91) (NSSs)

• Julie Strain (Jun 91) ("On the Scene [May 91]" and "Height Report [Jul 91]" pictorials)

• Ashley Williams (Sep 95) (as Stacy Ciccarelli in the Jul 95 pictorial on petite women)

• Asia Carrera (as Jessica Bennett in a Playboy BOL)

• Tally Chanel

• Kelly Jackson (porn star Racquel Darrian)

• Kelly Jackson (porn star Kelly Jaye)

• Joyce Mandel (aka Joyce Gibson, Alexis Love) (Penthouse Dec 74 b/g/b; Playboy Jul 80 with Dudley Moore in a steambath and Apr 75 on the beach with Arnold Schwarzenegger)

• Brooke Morales (aka Brooke Moore)

• Helga Schiller (as Marlene Appelt in the Aug 72 Playboy pictorial, "Girls of Munich")

• Brinke Stevens (Penthouse Jul 82 g/g; Playboy May 83 "On the Scene," Jan 85 "Girls of Rock 'N' Roll," Entertaining Women NSS)

• Edy Williams (Penthouse Mar 78; Playboy many times)

For many years Penthouse fell somewhere in between Playboy and Hustler in terms of explicitness (and respectability). Almost from the start the pictorials showed female genitalia and pubic hair when this was still considered by many to be obscene. Simulated sex, but not penetration or male genitalia, followed, then, several years later, male genitalia, including erections, could be seen. In addition, Penthouse attempted to maintain some level of reading content, although usually of a more sexually oriented nature than Playboy.

Probably the most famous issue of Penthouse was its September 1984 issue, which was the largest selling issue of any magazine in history. This issue featured photos of Vanessa Williams, who was the current Miss America, from early in her modeling career. Williams posed for the series of black and white photos with another female model, engaging in simulated lesbian acts. While Williams' pictures created the most publicity at the time, the issue would later become even more controversial because of its centerfold, Traci Lords. Lords posed nude for this issue at the beginning of her career as an adult film star. It would later be revealed that Lords was underage throughout most of her career in pornography and was only fifteen when she posed for Penthouse. As a result, the issue is illegal to own with centerfold intact, falling under the laws against child pornography. The September 1984 issue also featured an interview with John Travolta, a feature on Boy George, and a pictorial on a pornographic actress, Hyapatia Lee.

In 1998, caught between the widespread availability of pornography on the Internet and the growing popularity of non-explicit "men's magazines" like Maxim, Penthouse decided to change its format and began featuring sexually explicit pictures (ie: actual oral and vaginal penetration). It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female models urinating, which up until then had been considered a defining limit of illegal obscenity as distinguished from legal pornography. The new format ended up losing subscriptions and newsstand circulation for the magazine.

On August 12, 2003, General Media, the parent company of the magazine, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In October 2003, it was announced that Penthouse magazine was being put up for sale as part of a deal with its creditors.

On October 4, 2004, General Media emerged from bankruptcy and was renamed the Penthouse Media Group. It is now owned by Marc Bell, a south Florida real-estate developer, who significantly softened the content of the magazine in early 2005.

Penthouse was started in 1965 in England and began to be published in America in 1969. Penthouse was an attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner's Playboy on several levels. One approach Guccione took was offering editorial content that was more sensationalistic than Playboy. The magazine's writing was aimed more at the middlebrow reader than Hefner's upscale emphasis, with stories about political issues, government coverups, and scandals.

Due to a lack of money and resources, Guccione himself photographed most of the models for the magazine's early issues. Without professional training, Guccione applied his knowledge of painting to his photography, establishing the diffused, soft-focus look that would become one of the trademarks of the magazine's pictorials. Guccione would sometimes take several days to complete a shoot, and, as this was during the days of the sexual revolution, he not surprisingly slept with a lot of his models.

As the magazine's success grew, Guccione openly embraced a life of luxury; his mansion is said to be the largest private residence in Manhattan. However, in contrast to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion, whose phenomenal parties are the stuff of legend, life at Guccione's mansion was remarkably sedate even during the hedonistic 1970s. Reportedly Guccione once had a party guest thrown out simply for jumping into the swimming pool fully clothed.

The magazine's pictorials offered more sexually explicit content than was commonly seen in most aboveground "men's magazines" of the era, being the first to show female pubic hair and then full-frontal nudity. Penthouse has also, over the years, featured a number of authorized and unauthorized photos of celebrities such as Madonna and Vanessa Williams. In both cases the photos were taken earlier in their careers and later sold to Penthouse after Madonna and Williams became famous. In Williams' case, this forced her resignation as Miss America in 1984.

The famous "Penthouse Forum" column, which featured readers writing in about their (alleged) sexual experiences, was and remains one of the most popular features of Penthouse, with several books of the "letters" in publication.

Penthouse enjoyed a great deal of success in the 1970s and 1980s, and Guccione used some of this fortune to make movies ("Caligula," 1979, with Malcolm McDowell) and to create Omni, a science fiction and science fact publication, and Spin, a music magazine intended to compete with Rolling Stone by being more "edgy". Guccione's son, Bob Guccione Jr., was given editorship of Spin, but father and son soon fell out over editorial decisions, and Bob Jr. eventually found independent investors to continue the magazine.

Penthouse was eventually outgunned by Larry Flynt's Hustler, which went even farther with both pictorials and editorial content than Guccione was willing to go. The magazine fell into a niche between Playboy's upper-class pretensions and Larry Flynt's no-holds-barred approach, and began to lose the impact it once had. Numerous unwise investment decisions on Guccione's part, including a never-built nuclear power plant and casino (which all told lost in excess of $100 million), added to his publishing empire's financial strain. Guccione's efforts to regain sales and get notoriety, which included attempts to get Monica Lewinsky to pose for the magazine and offering the Unabomber a free forum for his views, were not successful in reviving the magazine.

With the rise in online access to erotica and pornography in the 1990s, Penthouse's circulation numbers began to suffer even more. In 2003, General Media (the publishing company for Penthouse) declared bankruptcy, and Guccione himself resigned as chairman and CEO of Penthouse International, Inc. The magazine (as of December 2003) is still in publication and has an online presence; its circulation is estimated at 500,000, roughly 10% of where it was in the magazine's heyday.

Guccione has in recent years been treated for throat cancer, and must be fed through a tube directly into his stomach.