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.