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Chris Kenning, Louisville Courier Journal
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1:15 pm UTC Mar. 1, 2021
LAKEVILLE, Ky. Year after year, Larry Flynt’s private Lear jet would streak through the sky to land at a remote Appalachian airfield, his bodyguards pushing him in his gold-plated wheelchair to a waiting car.
The poor little pornographer from Eastern Kentucky,” as he once called himself, would wind his way through the two-lane roads of Magoffin County toward a one-story home in Lakeville, a Bible Belt hamlet on Kentucky s Licking River, where Flynt grew up as the son of a tobacco farmer and bootlegger.
It was about as far away as the Hustler porn mogul could get from Beverly Hills and his roller-coaster legal and personal dramas after he’d become the often-reviled but self-described King of Smut.
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.