US porn mogul Larry Flynt, best known as the publisher of Hustler magazine and a self-styled free-speech champion, died in Los Angeles on Wednesday aged 78, his spokeswoman said.
“He passed quietly in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife Liz and daughter Theresa by his side,” Minda Gowen said in a statement, referring to the Los Angeles hospital.
Flynt died “from the recent onset of a sudden illness,” the statement added, without specifying the cause.
Various media reports have said that Flynt died of heart failure.
A self-described “smut peddler with a heart,” Flynt rose from abject poverty to run a
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