Larry Flynt, 'Hustler' Founder and First Amendment Activist, Dead at 78 Larry Flynt, 'Hustler' Founder and First Amendment Activist, Dead at 78 His famed legal battles - which he took to the Supreme Court - are memorialized in the 1996 film 'The People Versus Larry Flynt' Tim Dickinson, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Larry Flynt, the publisher of the sexually explicit Hustler magazine whose legal battles turned him into a flamboyant crusader for free speech rights, has died at 78. Flynt’s famed legal battles — which he took to the Supreme Court — were memorialized in the 1996 film The People Versus Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson. Flynt’s death was first reported by TMZ and his brother Jimmy Flynt confirmed the news to