Lessons From Larry Flynt
Sheldon Zoldan
For nine months straddling the fall of 1977 and the spring of 1978, the
Hustler publisher signed my paychecks. So, when a friend of mine texted me the news in February that Flynt had died at age 78 in Los Angeles, a floodgate of memories opened.
I cannot say all the memories were good, and it was not the highlight of my journalism career. My lessons learned were about life, not words. About people, loyalty and greed. I learned most of them from Flynt, without him saying a word to me.
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