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Posted: 3:36 PM May 6, 2008
Tennessee Bible Park promoter was photographer for Penthouse magazine
One of the founders of the investment company proposing a Bible-themed park in Rutherford County was a photographer for Penthouse magazine.
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- One of the founders of the investment company proposing a Bible-themed park in Rutherford County was a photographer for Penthouse magazine.
Nashville newspaper The Tennessean reports Web sites that sell back issues of the magazine show Amnon Bar-Tur shot cover and centerfold photos of nude models for the publication during the 1970s.
Bar-Tur is the father of Armon Bar-Tur, the main spokesman for New York-based SafeHarbor Holding LLC, which wants to build the 282-acre Bible Park USA in the Blackman community.
The news was first posted Monday on a blog on the Web site of Nashville's WKRN television station.
After the developers released a statement acknowledging that the elder Bar-Tur had been a photographer for Penthouse but calling the report distorted and irrelevant.
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