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Old 01-24-2005   #1
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Fallen porn king rebuilds with bagels
Mon Jan 24, 2005 04:14 PM GMT

By John Zawadzinski
NEW YORK (Reuters) - He spent a lifetime peddling smut and once had an $11 million (5.9 billion pound) 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.

"The Internet made pornography available for free and I couldn't compete," said Goldstein, who now lives on Staten Island, with his fifth wife, Christine, 28.

Those he befriended in the porn business, a billion-dollar industry he helped pioneer, turned their backs to him. Even his own son, Jordan, a Harvard graduate who works for a New York-based law firm, refuses to speak to him.

"My life has turned to crap," Goldstein said. "To go from a being a millionaire and then living in a homeless shelter and being rejecting by 98 percent of your friends is horrendous, but I'm a survivor."

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"I'm in a business that to me, is more dynamic than pornography," he said. "I could do many things, but people who typecast me as just a pornographer, they're just stupid
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Is $11 million a fortune?
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and what about this guy?

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I love that guy already.
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I think its been said that you go back to mainstream if you loose your adult job.
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I bet Al never went to Hebrew School.

If he did, he would've learned to be a better Jew and save...

Anyone know where he works, I'd go get a bagel from him.
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fuck now i have a sudden urge to grab a roll of TP and hug my tv
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The worst part about this is that his own son wouldn't help him out.

I bet the kid graduated harvard cause of his dad's money, yet won't even help pick his own father off the ground.

He should read gonzo's thread on family.
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I bet the kid graduated harvard cause of his dad's money, yet won't even help pick his own father off the ground.

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I was thinking the same thing....

I was also thinking "I'm not so sure I'd want to eat a bagel touched by Al Goldstein" ;-)
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Kaiser never had an empire....

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