Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, a self-styled free speech activist, dies aged 78
10 Feb, 2021 11:16 PM
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Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, a self-styled free speech activist, dies aged 78. Video / CBS Sunday Morning
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, a self-styled free speech activist, dies aged 78. Video / CBS Sunday Morning
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American publisher Larry Flynt, who turned Hustler magazine into a pornography empire, has died at the age of 78.
Flynt died of heart failure in Los Angeles, celebrity website TMZ reports.
A self-described free speech activist, he was involved in several high-profile legal cases over his publications. His story inspired the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt in which he was portrayed by Woody Harrelson.
Larry Flynt
Portrayed by Woody Harrelson in a 1996 Milos Forman film, he famously beat televangelist Jerry Falwell in a case that went to the Supreme Court.
Larry Flynt, the tenacious, controversial and free-thinking entrepreneur who took a string of strip clubs and built them into Hustler, one of the world s most successful sex-based brands, has died. He was 78.
Flynt died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from a sudden illness, according to his manager Minda Gowen.
Flynt changed the face of publishing with
Hustler magazine, an explicitly lewd monthly featuring nude photos and crude, below-the-belt humor. Launched in 1974, it focused on a part of the female anatomy that Flynt felt
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That letter, and others, which are on display at the presidential libraries of Richard Nixon and Kennedy, show the importance of the visit by Onassis and her children, and the tenderness of the treatment by Pat Nixon as the family visited the White House.
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