Larry Flynt, who built a porn empire before becoming a First Amendment champion, dies at 78 Author: Miles Corwin, Los Angeles Times Updated: February 10 Published February 10
Larry Flynt Publications Inc. (LFP) Publisher Larry Flynt comments on the resignation of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 14, 2008. Flynt, who turned Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment empire while championing First Amendment rights, has died at age 78. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Print article LOS ANGELES Larry Flynt, the son of a dirt-poor Kentucky sharecropper who amassed a pornographic publishing empire and later became an unlikely First Amendment champion and self-appointed arbitrator of political hypocrisy, has died at his home in Los Angeles.