Martin Hodas had earned his net worth is quite a notable figure thanks to his title as “Porno King of New York City” from the late 60s to the 80s. Learn more about the founder of New York’s porn industry below!
Martin Hodas lived his life as the “Porno King of New York City” for a whopping two decades.
He played a crucial role in building the porn and peep show industry of New York.
Hodas has also been mentioned on the upcoming Netflix docu-series “Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer” due to his works in the sex industry.
While he flourished the number of people involved in the business, it gave more victims to Richard Cottingham, the “Times Square Torso Ripper.”
The Netflix series mainly focuses on Richard, the serial killer’s life where he mainly killed the sex workers of Times Square.
Martin Hodas Net Worth Revealed
Martin Hodas’s exact net worth figure estimation is still under review.
The Cinemaholic reports that, at one point, he had earned $30,000 in just one week from his peep shows.
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Hodas had started his business career from abandoned film-loop machines that he found in the basement of a New Jersey business establishment.
He used those machines to show pornography and later live sex acts to crowds.
As he earned more and became the pioneer figure of peep shows in the city, he earned lavish lives for his poverty-stricken family and children.
Martin Hodas Wikipedia Explored
Martin Hodas was a European immigrant in New York City.
He worked several odd jobs including shoe polisher and newspaperman to feed his family until he came across the abandoned film machines in 1966.
Hodas’s life took a full turn after he started his peep show and flourished the industry of live sex acts.
Though he earned money and lived a lavish life, his family environment started becoming toxic.
His daughter Romola revealed that Hodas used to host swinger parties with drugs and alcohol when they were still in the house.
After ruling the industry, Hodas passed away in 2013 leaving behind his family and children.
Martin Hodas Daughter and Family: Is Romola Hodas In New York?
Martin Hodas’s eldest daughter, Romola Hodas is in New York.
She is a successful businesswoman turned writer. She wrote a memoir titled ‘The Princess of 42nd Street: Surviving My Childhood as the Daughter of Times Square’s King of Porn’.
The book depicts the hardship that her father’s wealth brought to her family.
She solely took care of her siblings and mother though she herself had a tough past.
“Time square killer” Netflix Case Update
Martin Hodas is credited as a successful businessman due to his connection to the city’s peep and porn shows.
The Netflix series “Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer” is to be broadcast on December 29.
The perpetrator Richard Cottingham is currently incarcerated in New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey.