Larry Flynt, Hustler Founder and First Amendment Activist, Dead at 78
Larry Flynt, Hustler Founder and First Amendment Activist, Dead at 78
His famed legal battles - which he took to the Supreme Court - are memorialized in the 1996 film The People Versus Larry Flynt
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Larry Flynt, the publisher of the sexually explicit
Hustler magazine whose legal battles turned him into a flamboyant crusader for free speech rights, has died at 78. Flynt’s famed legal battles which he took to the Supreme Court were memorialized in the 1996 film
The People Versus Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson. Flynt’s death was first reported by TMZ and his brother Jimmy Flynt confirmed the news to
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Hustler magazine at his offices in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 26, 2014. Credit: AFP via Getty Images
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It s highly unusual to start an obituary with a warning about sexual content ahead. But Larry Flynt would ve approved.
Flynt was a hard core pornographer whose Supreme Court case in 1988 made him a free speech folk hero. Admire him, despise him â or both, Flynt left a singular mark on culture and politics. Flynt died on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles. He was 78 years old. Pornography is really the purest form of art, Flynt told WHYY s Fresh Air in 1996. The high school drop out was born in a log cabin, in Kentucky. His magazine, Hustler, started as a newsletter promoting Flynt s strip clubs. I felt guys wanted to see . more a girl next door, whether she might have small breasts, medium or large. Or be a brunette or a blonde, he said.