Larry Flynt, pornographer, provoker and scabrous champion of Americans’ right to free speech – obituary
After his 1988 Supreme Court win Flynt said: ‘If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you’
Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine, giving a press conference in 2007
Credit: Gus Ruelas/REUTERS
Larry Flynt, who has died aged 78, was an American pornographer who picked wild legal fights in his efforts to protect freedom of speech – or, depending on one’s point of view, to attract publicity for his magazines and himself – and built up a business empire of magazines, strip clubs and “adult” shops estimated to be worth $400 million in 2015.