“Hustler” magazine founder Larry Flynt in 2007. -
Gary He / AP / SIPA
He considered
Playboy
"old-fashioned".
Porn mogul Larry Flynt, founder of
Hustler
magazine
at the heart of a 1990s Milos Forman movie and self-proclaimed free speech advocate, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 78, according to reports. US media citing his family.
His brother Jimmy Flynt confirmed
the death
to the
Washington Post
, originally announced by TMZ.
According to this celebrity site, Larry Flynt died of cardiac arrest.
Flynt launched in 1974 his pornographic magazine
Hustler
, a competitor of
Playboy which
he considered “old-fashioned”, with very explicit photos and a deliberately scandalous tone.
For more than two decades, he fought obscenity laws in court.
He then developed his empire with other publications, studios specializing in porn movies and websites.
In 2000, the businessman even opened a Hustler casino in the suburbs of Los Angeles, where he had lived for a long time.
Trump, the sworn enemy
In October 2017, the lifted old man, nailed in a gold-plated wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1978, had given himself a final blow by offering, on a full page in the
Washington Post
, 10 million dollars to which would provide him with any information leading to the impeachment of Donald Trump.
It was his "patriotic duty", said this accustomed to polemics and trials, who had built his reputation and his fortune on provocation.
The man was used to the method: to support President Clinton entangled in the Lewinsky affair in 1998, he had obtained the heads of several elected officials compromised in sex scandals revealed in his magazine.
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