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Neal Boulton (born 22 February 1967) is an American editor and publisher of magazines and books.
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Career
In his career, Neal Boulton has been the Editor in Chief of Sly magazine in which he edited and published the screenplay Rocky VI, which was adapted into a major motion picture entitled Rocky Balboa that earned a worldwide box office gross of 156,000,000 US dollars. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone and debuted in 2006. After, he became the Editor in Chief of Men's Fitness magazine, in which he worked with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on his U.S. Fit Nation tours and television programs for the news network CNN. Later, he served as the Editor in Chief of Genre magazine, after which the celebrity gossip column PageSix in The New York Post reported about his bisexuality when he announced his editorial role at the publication, which focused on gay, transgender, and bisexual subject matter.
Personal life and controversy
Boulton was called "a controversial figure in the New York magazine world" by The New York Times after he was reported by PageSix in The New York Post to be romantically involvement with Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner; reported by Vanity Fair to have helped golfer Tiger Woods to cover up his extramarital affairs; and reported by The New York Times as once entering rehab after struggling with cocaine, alcohol, and heroin addiction.
Recognition
After Neal was reported as having been a part of numerous sex and celebrity scandals, he was described as "a publishing industry lightning rod" by The New York Times, "one of publishing's most notorious magazine editors" by the British newspaper The Independent; "maybe even genius" by The Huffington Post. And in an article about his heroin addiction magazine Heroinlife, in which he published articles about drug rehabilitation, he was called "brilliant" by New York Magazine.
Television work
Between 2004 and 2015 Boulton has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, multiple television programs for the news network CNN discussing the work of the writers he has published.
Early career
Boulton began a series of periodical literature relaunches, beginning in 1992 with Architecture Magazine. By 2009 he had relaunched a total of 28 periodical titles, including the multiple National Magazine Award Outside Magazine, as well as Men's Fitness, Life, and Food & Wine. Between 2010 and 2013 he created two digital periodicals: A sex and relationships magazine entitled Bastard Life, about which The New York Times wrote, "This editor, who once worked on redesigns at magazines like Outside and Shape, continues to transform his site from an outpost of thinking-man’s erotica to a service-oriented online magazine about sex and relationships." The second digital periodical Boulton created was entitled Heroin Life and provided heroin addicts with rehab and detox listings, and help obtaining entry into free rehabs within the United States. Heroin Life was celebrated as "Brilliant" by New York Magazine.