For a period of time, he was the single largest pornographer and distributor of adult material in the world.

He began his empire in his hometown of Durand, Michigan (located midway between Flint and Lansing) by buying a failing drive-in theater just outside Durand and switching to showing adults-only movies.

[1] Déjà Vu is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada; it was founded and is controlled by Harry Mohney, who partnered with Roger Forbes and opened his first Déjà Vu strip club in Seattle in 1987.

Déjà Vu also owns most of the adult theatres and clubs in San Francisco, but these however carry different names.

The Erotic Heritage Museum (EHM) is a 24,000 sq ft (2,200 m2) area with 17,000 sq ft (1,600 m2) dedicated to displays on the history of erotica, and it is located at 3275 Industrial Road in Paradise, Nevada.