Oscar Maroni

Oscar Maroni Filho (January 27, 1951 – December 31, 2025) was a Brazilian businessman who operated in the adult entertainment industry. He was best known as the owner of the Bahamas Night Club in the city of São Paulo, and various public controversies. He worked in adult entertainment, livestock farming, and hospitality. He was publisher of the Brazilian editions of Penthouse and Hustler magazines.

Biography

Early years and education

The son of Oscar Milano Maroni and Maria de Lourdes Costabile, both of Italian origin, Oscar Maroni was born in the city of Jundiaí, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Before becoming an entrepreneur in the adult entertainment industry in São Paulo, he graduated with a degree in psychology and ran his own practice for five years. He began his professional life with a snack trailer. He studied in the afternoons and took turns with his girlfriend Marisa Vaccari, whom he met in college and would later marry.

Public life

In 2007, Maroni was arrested on charges of exploitation of prostitution, criminal conspiracy, and human trafficking. He was detained between August and October of that year, for fifty days, but was granted habeas corpus and responded to the charges while free.

Affiliated with the Labour Party of Brazil (PTdoB), in 2008, he ran for city councilor in São Paulo in a controversial campaign aimed at provoking then-mayor Gilberto Kassab, after a series of public disagreements with Kassab, especially after TAM Airlines Flight 3054.