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Larry Flynt turned 78 years old. Stock Photography.
American porn mogul Larry Flynt has passed away, American media report.
Flynt is best known as the man behind the men’s magazine Hustler and as a staunch defender of his magazines in court.
During the 1960s, Larry Flynt ran a series of clubs in Ohio, all called “Hustler clubs.” A club newsletter became so popular that it turned it into what in 1974 became Hustler magazine, launched as a slightly rougher alternative to Playboy and similar magazines.
The Hustler brand later also became a television channel and the magazine was published in several countries.
Sued by Falwell
With Hustler, Flynt became known nationally in the United States, and even more so when over the years he was prosecuted and he himself carried out a large number of cases in court, from moral crimes to freedom of the press. The most talked about was the accusation in which Conservative television pastor Jimmy Falwell Sr. sued Flynt and Hustler for running a false satirical ad in which Falwell drinks alcohol.
The case went all the way in 1988 to the Supreme Court, which ruled that public figures cannot sue people or posts for satire or parody simply because they are offended.
Flynt’s life and path to the final verdict were made into a 1996 film, Milos Forman’s “Larry Flynt – The Scandal Man,” in which Woody Harrelson was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Flynt.
In a wheelchair after attempted murder
In 1978, Larry Flynt was shot while leaving a Georgia courthouse. He survived, but was partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. When the shooter was to be executed in Missouri in 2013 for a murder, Flynt pleaded for his life, saying that “a country that prohibits its people from killing each other must not participate in the murder.”
Flynt never hesitated to create publicity for himself or his posts. In 1983, he invited then-President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, and all members of Congress to a free subscription to Hustler, because he wanted them to “stay well informed on all social issues and trends.”
When President Bill Clinton was brought before a federal court, Flynt set out to expose various Republicans as hypocrites and published, among other things, several infidelity deals by members of Congress. In 2003, he ran in the California gubernatorial election won by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Larry Flynt turned 78 years old.
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