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Hustler publisher Larry Flynt dies in Hollywood home aged 78 following a life of controversy and tragedy
Porn purveyor Larry Flynt, who built Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment empire while championing First Amendment rights, has died aged 78.
Key points:
- Mr Flynt was in poor health and died of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home according to family
- His publishing and financial successes were offset in equal measure by controversies and tragedies
- He was paralysed from the waist down after being shot by a sniper, and won high profile court cases
Flynt had been in frail health and died of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his nephew Jimmy Flynt Jr said.
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…
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