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“He died peacefully, sleeping, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, along with his wife Liz and daughter Theresa,” Minda Gowen told AFP in a statement.
Flint died “of a recent sudden illness,” the statement said, without specifying the exact cause of death. Several US media reported that Flint died of heart disease.
Calling himself a “sincere smut dealer”, Flint emerged from extreme poverty and ran a vast adult entertainment empire.
He published the first issue of Hustler in 1974. The magazine was conceived as a more primitive and open analogue of publications such as Playboy. Sales skyrocketed a year after a nude photo of former President Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who was on fire during the holidays, was printed and L. Flintt ate his first million.
His business empire grew to include dozens of magazines, online porn sites, clubs, and casinos.
In 1978, Flint was paralyzed from the waist down when he was shot by a white supporter, outraged by Hustler’s sexual photos of different races. This injury made L. Flintt intermittently dependent on pain relievers.
Flint’s empire was valued at 100-500 million. dollars (82.5-412 million euros).
He also fought for free speech and was included in the 1988 Supreme Court case of Hustler v. Falwell, who ruled that the United States Constitution protects writers and artists who make fun of public figures.
In this case, the decision that L.Flyntas should pay 200 thousand. dollars (165 thousand euros) in compensation for the defamation that caused “emotional suffering” to the conservative preacher of American television Jerry Falwell.
The case involved a parody posted by Hustler that hinted that Falwell had his first sexual relationship with his mother in the backyard.
The case was presented in the Supreme Court and L. Flylyn’s life was captured in the 1996 Hollywood film The People v. Larry Flynt. The film was directed by Milos Forman and Flint was played by Woody Harrelson.
“I have to admit I never bought Hustler magazine and I think I never will,” Forman wrote in the introduction to Flint’s 1996 autobiography, The Wrong Man: My Life as a Porn Publisher, Expert, and Rejector. Unseemly Man: My Life as a Pornographer, Commentator, and Social Outcast).
“As long as I live, however, I will always look up to Larry Flynt – his life, his courage and his perseverance,” added Forman.
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