KATHY KEETON GUCCIONE
Name: Kathy Keeton
Born: 1939
Died: 19 September 1997
Kathryn "Kathy" Keeton (b. 1939, South Africa - September 19, 1997, New York,
New York) was a magazine publisher along with her partner, and later husband,
Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione. Her title was President/COO of General Media
Communications, Inc.
She founded the magazines Viva (1973); OMNI (1979); and Longevity (1989). She
also published two books, Woman of Tomorrow (1986) and Longevity (1992).
After her diagnosis with breast cancer, Keeton treated herself with hydrazine
sulfate, after reading about it in OMNI, one of her own publications. She
claimed that she had ridden or shrunken almost all of the tumors and extended
her life by several years, after being given a dire initial prognosis of only
six weeks to live by her doctors.
Keeton died of complications during surgery for an intestinal obstruction, aged
58, in New York City.
Name: Kathy Keeton
Born: 1939
Died: 19 September 1997
Kathryn "Kathy" Keeton (b. 1939, South Africa - September 19, 1997, New York,
New York) was a magazine publisher along with her partner, and later husband,
Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione. Her title was President/COO of General Media
Communications, Inc.
She founded the magazines Viva (1973); OMNI (1979); and Longevity (1989). She
also published two books, Woman of Tomorrow (1986) and Longevity (1992).
After her diagnosis with breast cancer, Keeton treated herself with hydrazine
sulfate, after reading about it in OMNI, one of her own publications. She
claimed that she had ridden or shrunken almost all of the tumors and extended
her life by several years, after being given a dire initial prognosis of only
six weeks to live by her doctors.
Keeton died of complications during surgery for an intestinal obstruction, aged
58, in New York City.