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The businessman became very popular after founding the pornographic magazine ‘Hustler’, in 1974, with which he started his empire. His career was filled with episodes of lawsuits, trials, imprisonments, 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 whom he won an Oscar nomination.
Of humble origins, Flynt (Kentucky, 1942), opened his first strip club in 1964. It was the first of a series of places that he opened throughout the United States and 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 the snapshots obtained 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 i was right“He explained in an interview collected by the Washington Post.
But his idea 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.
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) they did not save him from complaints and prosecutions for obscenity. He was even sentenced to prison for contempt.
In 1978, on the way out of a trial, the businessman was shot and killed by a serial killer, leaving him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
In the decades that followed, he started in the production and distribution of porn movies, opened casinos and He flirted with politics when he ran as a candidate for 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.
