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Larry Flynt - Wikipedia. Larry Flynt. Born. Larry Claxton Flynt Jr.(1. November 1, 1. 94.
Lakeville, Kentucky, U. S. Residence. Hollywood Hills, California, U. S. Lakeville, Kentucky, U. S. Occupation. Publisher, free speech activist. Years active. 19. Spouse(s)Mary Flynt (1. Peggy Flynt (1. 96.
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American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1. Joseph Paul Franklin.[1] In 2. Arena magazine listed him at No. Powerful People in Porn" list.[2]Life and career[edit]Early life[edit]Flynt was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, the first of three children to 2.
Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. World War II veteran,[3] and 1. Edith (née Arnett; 1. He had two younger siblings: sister Judy (1. Jimmy Ray Flynt (born June 2. Beyblade Metal Fury All Episodes. His father served in the United States Army in the European Theatre of World War II. Due to his father's absence, Flynt was raised solely by his mother and maternal grandmother for the first three years of his life.[5] Flynt was raised in poverty, and claimed Magoffin County was the poorest county in the nation during the Great Depression.[6] In 1.
Flynt's sister, Judy,[7] died due to leukemia at age four.[8] The death provoked his parents' divorce one year later; Flynt was raised by his mother in Hamlet, Indiana, and his brother, Jimmy, was raised by his maternal grandmother in Magoffin County. Two years later, Flynt returned to live in Magoffin County with his father because he disliked his mother's new boyfriend.[5][9]Flynt attended Salyersville High School (now Magoffin County High School) in the ninth grade. However, he ran away from home and, despite being only 1. United States Army using a counterfeit birth certificate.[1. It was around that time that he developed a passion for the game of poker. After being honorably discharged, Flynt returned to his mother in Indiana and found employment at the Inland Manufacturing Company, an affiliate of General Motors.
However, there was a union- led slowdown and he was laid off after only three months.[1. He then returned to his father in Kentucky. For a brief period, he became a bootlegger but stopped when he learned that county deputies were searching for him.[1. After living on his savings for two months, he enlisted in the United States Navy in July 1. He became a radar operator on USS Enterprise. He was the operator on duty when the ship was assigned to recover John Glenn's space capsule.[1.
He was honorably discharged in July 1. First enterprises[edit]In early 1. Flynt took $1,8. 00 from his savings and bought his mother's Dayton, Ohio, bar, the Keewee.
He refitted it and was soon making $1,0. He worked as many as 2. He frequently had to break up fistfights between drunken customers. Flynt decided to open a new, higher- class bar, which would also be the first in the area to feature nude hostess dancers; he named it the Hustler Club.
From 1. 96. 8 onward, with the help of his brother Jimmy and later his girlfriend Althea Leasure, he opened Hustler Clubs in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo, Ohio. Soon each club grossed between $2. He also acquired the Dayton franchise of a small newspaper called Bachelor's Beat, which he published for two years before selling it. At the same time, he closed a money- losing vending- machine business.[1. Hustler magazine[edit]In January 1. Flynt created the Hustler Newsletter, a two- page, black- and- white publication about his clubs. This item became so popular with his customers that by May 1.
Hustler Newsletter to 1. August 1. 97. 3. As a result of the 1. American economy went into recession. Revenues of Hustler Clubs declined, and Flynt had to either refinance his debts or declare bankruptcy. He decided to turn the Hustler Newsletter into a sexually explicit magazine with national distribution. He paid the start- up costs of the new magazine by deferring payment of sales taxes his clubs owed on their activities.
In July 1. 97. 4, the first issue of Hustler was published. Although the first few issues went largely unnoticed, within a year the magazine became highly lucrative and Flynt was able to pay his tax debts.[1. Flynt's friend Al Goldstein said that Hustler took its inspiration from his own tabloid SCREW, but credited him with accomplishing what he had not: creating a national publication.[1. In November 1. 97.
Hustler showed the first "pink- shots", or photos of open vulvas.[1. Flynt had to fight to publish each issue, as many people, including some at his distribution company, found the magazine too explicit and threatened to remove it from the market. Shortly thereafter, Flynt was approached by a paparazzo who had taken nude pictures of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis while she was sunbathing on vacation in 1. He purchased them for $1.
August 1. 97. 5 issue.[1. That issue attracted widespread attention, and one million copies were sold within a few days. Now a millionaire, Flynt bought a $3.
Shooting[edit]On March 6, 1. Gwinnett County, Georgia, Flynt and his local lawyer, Gene Reeves Jr., were returning to the courthouse when they were shot on the sidewalk in front of 1. South Perry Street in Lawrenceville by a sniper standing near an alley across the street. The shooting left Flynt partially paralyzed with permanent spinal cord damage, and in need of a wheelchair. Flynt's injuries caused him constant, excruciating pain and he was addicted to painkillers until multiple surgeries deadened the affected nerves. He also suffered a stroke caused by one of several overdoses of his analgesic medications.
He recovered but has had pronunciation difficulties since. Larry Flynt's Gold- Plated Wheelchair – November 1.
White supremacistserial killer. Joseph Paul Franklin confessed to the shootings many years later, claiming he was outraged by an interracial photo shoot in Hustler. Franklin was never brought to trial for the attempted killing of Flynt, who has made statements indicating he believes Franklin's story. Some police officials[who?] also concur.
Franklin was eventually charged in Missouri with eight counts of murder unrelated to the Flynt shooting, and sentenced to death. In October 2. 01.
Flynt said he opposed the death penalty and did not want Franklin to be executed.[2. Franklin was executed in Missouri by lethal injection on November 2. Personal life[edit]Flynt has been married five times. He married his fourth wife, Althea, in 1. He married his current wife, Elizabeth Berrios, in 1. He has four daughters and a son. He claimed to be an evangelical Christian for one year, "converted" in 1.
Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter. He said he became "born again" and that he had a vision from God while flying with Stapleton in his jet. He continued to publish his magazine, however, vowing to "hustle for God."[2. He has since declared himself an atheist.[2. Flynt disowned his eldest daughter, Tonya Flynt- Vega, after she became a Christian anti- pornography activist.
In her 1. 99. 8 book Hustled, she claims that Flynt sexually abused her as a child, often calling her names.[2. Flynt has denied the charges, claiming to have passed a polygraph test and to be in possession of a tape recording of his daughter admitting she made up the accusations for money.[2.
In 1. 99. 4, Flynt bought a Gulfstream II private jet, which was used in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. In 2. Gulfstream IV. He currently resides in the Hollywood Hills. He also still owns property near Lakeville in Magoffin County, Kentucky. Flynt has mentioned that he has bipolar disorder.[2. His daughter Lisa Flynt- Fugate died in a car crash in Ohio in October 2.
Flynt's enterprises[edit].