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Larry flynt, nicknamed the America’s porn king and a controversial media figure, died this Wednesday at his residence in Los Angeles (USA), his family confirmed to the media.
The tycoon became very popular after found in 1974 the pornographic magazine “Hustler”, With which he started an empire in the sex industry in which he lived all kinds of lawsuits, trials, incarcerations and an assassination attempt in 1978.
His life was documented in the film “The People vs. Larry Flynt” (1996), starring Woody Harrelson in the role of the well-known businessman, with which he won an Oscar nomination.
The Humble Origin, Flynt (Kentucky, 1942), opened his first strip club in 1964. It was the first in a series of stores he opened across the United States that reinforced his brand in the sex industry.
In 1974 he began publishing his pornography “magazine”, “Hustler”, which soon reached a circulation of 2 million copies.
The magazine rose to fame after publishing in 1975 images of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bathing naked in Greece as the competition rejected snapshots taken by a paparazzi.
Later, unlike other publications such as Playboy and Penthouse, Flynt opted for another way of showing sexual relations, more crude and explicit, with the aim of making them more like the reality of the working class.
“I realized that if we were more explicit, we could get a big part of this market. I felt that raw sex was what men wanted. And he was right, “he explained in an interview collected by the Washington Post.
But that goal gave way to a series of sadistic and disturbing images that included gang rapes, mutilations and even the lurid photograph of a woman in a meat grinder that sparked international controversy.
Complaints and prosecutions for obscenity
Flynt defended that this montage was an implicit criticism of the porn industry but his explanations and his agitated defense of the First Amendment of the US Constitution (freedom of expression) did not save him from complaints and prosecutions for obscenity. He was even sentenced to prison for contempt.
In 1978, after a trial, the businessman was riddled with bullets by a serial killer, which left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
In the decades that followed, he began producing and distributing porn films, opening casinos, and flirting with politics by running for aspiring governor of California in 2003.
During his life he supported and criticized Democrats and Republicans. In his last years he was very hard with the mandate of former President Donald Trump.
