Larry Flynt dead: Hustler porn magazine mogul dies at 78
The controversial publisher, known for launching a porn empire, has died at the age of 78
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Hustler magazine mogul Larry Flynt has died at the age of 78.
Family sources told TMZ the publisher passed away on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles from heart failure.
Flynt had been regarded as one of the biggest names in the adult film industry for 50 years after launching Hustler back in 1974.
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.
Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78
As the publisher of a notorious sexually explicit magazine, he found himself at the nexus of a cultural and legal war and became an unlikely free-speech hero.
Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, in 1996. He was an unpopular hero to civil libertarians, the Devil incarnate to an unlikely alliance of feminists and morality preachers, and a purveyor of guilty secrets to legions of men.Credit.Evan Hurd/Sygma, via Getty Images
Feb. 10, 2021
Larry Flynt, a ninth-grade dropout who built a $400 million empire of raunchy publications, strip clubs and “adult” shops around his sexually explicit magazine Hustler, and spent decades battling obscenity and libel charges as a self-promoting champion of freedom of the press, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 78.
Porn purveyor Larry Flynt, who built Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment empire while championing First Amendment rights, died Wednesday. He was 78.