Larry Flynt Passed Away!

Larry Flynt passed away.

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Free speech advocate and adult entertainment mogul Larry Flynt has passed away. He was a mixture of progressive and libertarian politics. He was often vilified by religious leaders as a "twisted pervert" which he wore like a badge of honor.

The founder of Hustler Magazine has passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 78. Flynt was survivor of gun violence, attempts at shutting his businesses down and lawsuits by the Moral Majority. He managed to outmaneuver his opponents.

Born in the Eastern Kentucky mountain town, Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. was an American actor, publisher, businessman and activist. He was born in Lakeville to Larry, Sr. and Edith. He was the oldest of three children. He was living in a dysfunctional household. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade and did odd jobs for his family. He would run away from home to join the Army. He forged his birth certificate to get in. While in the Army he loved the game of poker and learned how to "hustle" his fellow soldiers out of money. He was discharged from the Army and went to live his mother in Indiana where he worked at the Inland Manufacturing Company, a GM affiliate.

He went back to Kentucky to be with his father. He learned to outmaneuver his first opponents, the law.

Cops were looking for him after they accused him of being a bootlegger. He managed to elude the law and went into the Navy briefly and had the opportunity to rescue the space capsule of John Glenn.

In the early 1960s, Flynt purchased a dive in Dayton, Ohio and he called it the Keewee. He would open up two other clubs in the city and was making bank. However, the police were calling it a nuisance because his bar would have frequent fights among patrons.

He decided to make himself a boss by opening up gentlemen's clubs and he called it the Hustler Club.

The first club built in Dayton was featuring nude hostess dancers. It was a hit with the patrons.

Larry and his brother Jimmy along with his then-girlfriend Althea Leasure partnered up to open up clubs across Ohio. The clubs opened in Cincinnati, Columbus, Akron, Toledo and Cleveland.

As of today, Hustler Club exists in Cleveland, San Diego, San Francisco, New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, Shreveport, Las Vegas and the most recent opening in Nashville. The Hustler Club International are located in London, Warsaw, Poland and Melbourne, Australia.

He also wrote the first publication known as the Bachelor's Beat before it transitioned into Hustler.

Hustler is a groundbreaking adult magazine. It was rauncher than Playboy and expressed the desire to give women sexual freedom and the LGBTQ community an opportunity to make a living.

He was a legend. I mean you known a person who purchased a Hustler Magazine. Mind you Hustler wasn't just full frontal nudity and sex scenes... It was actually journalism. It covered sports, politics and sexual education. Things that you never expected out of a magazine that markets in nudity.

Flynt had been in frail health and died of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, said his nephew, Jimmy Flynt Jr.

From his beginnings as an Ohio strip club owner to his reign as founder of one of the most explicit adult-oriented magazines, Flynt constantly challenged the establishment and became a target for the religious right and feminist groups.

Flynt scored a surprising U.S. Supreme Court victory over the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who had sued him for libel after a 1983 Hustler alcohol ad suggested Falwell had lost his virginity to his mother in an outhouse.

Flynt's company produced not only Hustler but other niche publications. He owned a video production company, various websites, a Los Angeles-area casino and 10 Hustler boutiques. He also licensed the Hustler name to independently owned strip clubs.

Drudge paid homage to Larry Flynt.

His publishing and financial successes were offset in equal measure by controversies and tragedies.

Shot by a sniper in 1978, Flynt was paralyzed from the waist down and used a wheelchair the rest of his life. The shooter was white extremist Joseph Paul Franklin. That extremist was executed in a Missouri iron college in 2013. Flynt fought battles with drug and alcohol addiction, and his fourth wife died of a heroin overdose.

His daughter, Lisa Flynt-Fugate, died in a 2014 car crash in Ohio at age 47.

With a fortune estimated at more than $100 million, Flynt spent his later years in the political arena.

When Gov. Gray Davis was recalled by California voters in 2003, Flynt was among 135 candidates who ran to replace him. He called himself “a smut peddler who cares” and gathered more than 15,000 votes.

A self-described progressive, Flynt was no fan of former President Donald Trump. Before the 2016 election, he offered up to $1 million for video or audio recordings of Trump engaging in illegal or "sexually demeaning or derogatory" activity.

In 2017, Flynt offered a $10 million reward for evidence that would lead to Trump's impeachment, and in 2019, Larry Flynt Publications sent a Christmas card to some Republican congressional members that showed Trump lying dead in a pool of blood, with the killer saying: “I just shot Donald Trump on Fifth Avenue and no one arrested me” — a reference to Trump’s boast that he could commit such a killing and wouldn’t lose votes.

Flynt's life was depicted in the acclaimed 1996 film "The People vs. Larry Flynt," which brought Oscar nominations for director Milos Forman and Woody Harrelson, who played Flynt.