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New York Porn King tortured his teen daughter over her weight: 'He put me in the hospital'

Hodas terrorized his children and often projected his own insecurities about his weight on his eldest daughter Romola Hodas.
UPDATED APR 5, 2019

Martin Hodas, popularly known as New York's King of Porn, owned every 25-cent sleazy peep show across Time Square in the 1970s and raked in millions. 'Marty,' who ran his porno empire out of an office located at 113W. 42nd St, was considered astute and courageous by business owners outside, however, he was a different person when he came home.

Hodas terrorized his children and often projected his own insecurities about his weight on his eldest daughter Romola Hodas. He routinely fat-shamed her, physically abusing her and sending her off to fat camps, branding her a "fat pig". 

"He once put me in the hospital," Romola told MEA Worldwide (MEAWW). "My dad used to beat me up when I gained weight. He used to pick me up when he came home from work and put me on a scale, and if I gained any weight he used to beat me up. I would later sit at the dinner table and not eat anything and then clean and wash the dishes and go to my room without food. He was rough," she added.

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