The Ohio Hustler bars later spawned the Hustler Hollywood sex shop, a casino, and numerous other magazines and clubs.įlynt also faced controversy in his personal life.
Flynt was also charged with obscenity-related offenses in 1998 as a result of a sting operation. Falwell in 1988, which went to the Supreme Court, which ultimately sided with Flynt. Franklin was eventually sentenced to death, but Flynt famously expressed his opposition to the death penalty in 2013 to no avail.įlynt was involved in several other obscenity cases, including Hustler Magazine v. Franklin didn’t confess to the attempted murder until years later, and said his reasoning was that an interracial photoshoot in Hustler that had enraged him. The shooting left Flynt partially paralyzed from the waist down, with permanent spinal cord damage, and Flynt used a gold-plated, velvet-lined wheelchair from then on.
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In March 1978, while Flynt was leaving a court hearing in Georgia, he was shot on the sidewalk by a gunman, who was later revealed to be serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. It became so popular that Flynt expanded it, and it eventually became Hustler magazine, which went several steps further than Playboy, with sexually explicit nude photos as well as paparazzi pictures of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.ĭuring Hustler’s early years, the publication faced many legal battles over obscenity laws. In 1972, Flynt started the Hustler Newsletter, which was a two-page publication about his clubs. After he was once again honorably discharged in 1964, Flynt entered into the bar business and eventually opened Hustler Clubs all around Ohio. After being honorably discharged, Flynt worked at the Inland Manufacturing Company for a few months and then as a bootlegger before enlisting in the Navy in 1960. 1, 1942 in Lakeville, Ky., Flynt grew up in poverty and eventually joined the United States Army at the age of 15 using a counterfeit birth certificate.
Larry Flynt,” in which Woody Harrelson played Flynt and Flynt himself guest-starred as a judge.īorn on Nov. Flynt was also known for his many legal battles involving adult entertainment and the First Amendment, which were portrayed in Milos Forman’s 1996 Oscar-nominated film “ The People vs. His brother Jimmy Flynt confirmed his death on Wednesday in Los Angeles to the Washington Post.įlynt was a notable figure in the porn industry for nearly 50 years, launching Hustler magazine in 1974 and later expanding to three television channels known as Hustler TV. The decision prohibited public figures from recovering damages over parodies.Larry Flynt, the controversial founder of Hustler magazine and president of Larry Flynt publications, has died. Falwell, after the televangelist sued Flynt for emotional distress over an ad printed in Hustler Magazine that suggested Falwell's first sexual encounter had been with his own mother in an outhouse.
In perhaps his most famous case, Flynt won a 1988 Supreme Court decision against Reverend Jerry Falwell, in Hustler Magazine v.
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The success of Hustler made Flynt a millionaire, as well as a frequent target of obscenity charges in court, as the sudden access to explicit pornography in the '70s and '80s forced an ongoing fight in the country over the regulation of pornography and the importance of free speech. The magazine saw peak circulation above 2 million in the 1970s, according to The Post, as Flynt styled the publication as an alternative to other classier sex-centric magazines of the day by showcasing raw images of naked men and women, as well as crass cartoons. More Hustler clubs across the country quickly followed, and in 1974, Flynt launched Hustler Magazine, a monthly pornographic magazine that catapulted the publisher to fame and fortune. It often indicates a user profile.Īfter a short stint in the US Navy, Flynt found his true calling in the nightlife scene, buying a bar in Dayton, Ohio, in 1965 and refitting it to turn a profit that allowed him to open a new, sexier bar one that featured nude dancers and would usher in Flynt's eventual $100 million porn empire: The Hustler Club. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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