Fallen U.S. Porn King Goldstein Rebuilds with Bagels (Al Goldstein)

[kskiska]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - He spent a lifetime peddling smut and once had an $11 million fortune, but after losing everything and becoming just another homeless New Yorker, Al Goldstein is now happy pushing bagels instead of porn.

Goldstein, a founding father of America's porn industry, now hustles bagels and white fish at a New York-based deli and catering establishment.

"I've always loved food more than sex, so this is really my first love," said Goldstein, 69, now a cold-calling salesman for New York City Bagels. "I've gone from broads to bagels."

Goldstein has good reason to feel good about his new career, however mundane, after becoming homeless last year when the porn empire he began building in 1968 collapsed.

The former owner of Milky Way Productions, home of Screw magazine and the now defunct X-rated cult show "Midnight Blue," went bankrupt over a year ago after amassing an $11 million fortune. Screw once sold over 140,000 copies weekly and was a cash cow thanks to ads for call girls and prostitutes before it fell victim to Internet porn and sagging circulation.

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[Osamasux]

1. Sticking with what he knows

Things with holes. :shrug:

[kskiska]

2. Unlike Donald Trump, this guy's bankruptcy

put him on the street.

He now lives in a Staten Island apartment after magician Penn Jillette, of the duo Penn and Teller, helped him out financially to get him back on his feet.

Good for Penn Jillette.

[Azathoth]

3. Kind of sad to see the guy fall so far

But he's partly to blame. Goldstein is one of the nastiest, most foul-tempered guys to ever inhabit the world of porn. He spent a lifetime treating everyone around him like shit, and it's coming back to bite him now that he needs help. It's sad, but at least he's not homeless anymore.