Larry Flynt Dead: 5 Things To Know About The ‘Hustlers’ Founder Who Died At 78
Pioneering adult magazine publisher and First Amendment activist Larry Flynt has passed away. We have five things to know about the ‘Hustler’ founder.
Legendary adult magazine published Larry Flynt has died at the age of 78. He passed away from heart failure at his home in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2021, family sources tell TMZ. He founded Hustler magazine in 1974, and fought for his First Amendment rights to publish such risque material in cases that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. His life was chronicled in the Oscar-nominated 1996 film, The People vs. Larry Flynt, where he was portrayed by actor Woody Harrelson.
Proud Democrat Flynt was politically active as well. On Oct, 14, 2017, Flynt took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post stating that he was willing to pay up to $10 million to anyone who could provide him with information on President Donald Trump that would lead his impeachment and removal from office! Here’s 5 things everyone should know about Larry Flynt.
1) He was from Lakeville, Kentucky. Long before he was known for his racy magazine, he was a bar owner in Dayton Ohio. He’s said to have worked around the clock and in no time owned a few more drinking establishments. In 1968, he opened the Hustler Club. It was a more high-class establishment than his other watering holes. In the next few years he opened several more Hustler Clubs all over Ohio.
2) In 1974, he published his first issue of Hustler magazine. Before, it had been a newsletter about his clubs, which was extremely popular. So it was reinvented as a magazine featuring sexually graphic content.
3) Due to the explicit nature of his magazine’s content, Flynt found himself constantly in legal battles. The most famous of which landed him in prison for 6 days on charges of obscenity and organized crime in Cincinnati.
4) Larry was shot by sniper when entering a courthouse in Georgia on March 6, 1978. The shooting paralyzed him from the waist down. Afterwards he also suffered a stroke due to an overdose of pain medication. The shooting left him in constant and excruciating pain until several surgeries providing him with relief.
5) He was a proud Hillary Clinton supporter during the 2016 presidential election. “They wind up making the rules that everybody else lives by, and we’ve had a right-leaning court for half a century,” he told Bloomberg Politics. “If Hillary gets in, chances are she’s going to have an opportunity to appoint two, maybe three justices to the court, and we could shift the balance there.” Larry was right on the money, as Trump’s 2016 victory allowed him to appointed three arch-conservative justices to SCOTUS: Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney-Barrett.
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