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Larry Flynt, who has died aged 78, was an American pornographer who picked wild legal fights in his efforts to protect freedom of speech - or to attract publicity for his magazines - and built a business empire of publications, strip clubs and "adult" shops worth $400m (€330m) in 2015. Much of his life was spent promoting Hustler, the magazine he founded in 1974. It pioneered a demotic brand of pornography and outsold Playboy and Penthouse. It was not enough for Flynt to shock people with pic...

(Feb 11): Larry Flynt, who parlayed a string of striptease bars into a multimillion-dollar pornography empire of magazines, books and videos, and successfully defended the enterprise in a First Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. He was 78. He died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, according to the Washington Post, citing his brother Jimmy Flynt. No cause was given. In 1965, Flynt bought a bar and began setting up Hustler clubs in cities from New York to California. He p...

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 worlds 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 ...

Larry Flynt, pornographer, provoker and scabrous champion of Americans’ right to free speech – obituary After his 1988 Supreme Court win Flynt said: ‘If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you’ Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine, giving a press conference in 2007 Credit: Gus Ruelas/REUTERS Larry Flynt, who has died aged 78, was an American pornographer who picked wild legal fights in his efforts to protect freedom of speech – or, depending o...