Getting the wrath of a racist extremist close to the Ku Klux Klan, being shot on leaving a court where he was appearing for “Obscenity”, become paraplegic and spend the last forty-three years of his life in a gold-plated wheelchair: so lived Larry Flynt, who died in his sleep, in Los Angeles on February 10, at the age of 78.
The statement released by the Flynt group specifies that the businessman, known to be addicted to painkillers and drugs, is dead “As a result of a sudden illness”, his wife Elizabeth and daughter Theresa by his side. An end of life as ordinary as the existence of the founder of the porn magazine Hustler (“Scammer”, “Crook”, “Prostitute”, in French, in the text) was effervescent.
When he launched the magazine that made his reputation in 1974, Larry Flynt first sought to promote the clubs he already had in Ohio, where customers rinse their throats and eyes in front of fully naked waitresses. In 1972, Gérard Damiano’s film Deep Throat, starring Linda Lovelace, has achieved public success, despite pornography bans, as the magazine Playboy, by Hugh Hefner, reigns supreme over the erotic press.
“There was a niche to be taken in the boutique photography market, and that niche was the low end,” later told the man who conquered his stripes of libertarian provocateur on the body of women, the raw images (the genitals are exposed there without filter) and dirty (the models do, on occasion, their needs).
Sex shops, studios and casino
A year after the birth of the magazine, Larry Flynt agrees to publish images refused by his competitors: those of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis nude, “Shot” by an Italian paparazzi on the Greek island of Skorpios, where the couple have a residence. Sales of this exceptional issue quickly reached one million copies, permanently installing Hustler in the landscape (up to 3 million copies will be sold per issue).
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The base of an empire, gradually built on other publications of clubs, sex shops (including the giant, Hollywood), studios specializing in porn movies, then Internet sites. In 2000, Larry Flynt even opened a “Hustler” casino in Las Vegas, which announced the death of its founder on Twitter from a sober “Rest in peace” (” May he rest in peace “). A few hours later, another tweet invited followers to come and spend a #wildwednesday (“a wild Wednesday”) with the pretty “Honeys” of the establishment, Strawberry, Tai, Angie, Courtney, Suset, Lilly and the others.
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