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The Kentucky town that raised, reviled Larry Flynt, 'The King of Smut'


Chris Kenning, Louisville Courier Journal
Published
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. ....

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