Porn mogul Larry Flynt, founder of the magazine Hustler at the heart of a film by Milos Forman in the 1990s and self-proclaimed defender of freedom of expression, died Wednesday February 10 in Los Angeles, according to American media citing his family.
His brother Jimmy Flynt confirmed to the Washington post the death, initially announced by the site TMZ. According to this celebrity site, Larry Flynt died of cardiac arrest.
Flynt launched in 1974 his pornographic magazine Hustler, competitor of Playboy he judged “Cheesy”, with very explicit photos and a deliberately scandalous tone. He then developed his empire with other publications, studios specializing in porn movies then websites. In 2000, the businessman even opened a “Hustler” casino in the suburbs of Los Angeles, where he had lived for a long time.
Ultimate shine
In October 2017, the old paraplegic man, nailed in a gold-plated wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1978, had allowed himself a last stroke of glory by offering, on a full page in the Washington post, $ 10 million 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.
