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Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and unsuccessfully ran for public office. He was paralyzed from the waist d…

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business · American publisher (1942–2021) · publisher · entrepreneur · autobiographer · journalist · politician · pornographic film producer · non-sex actor in a pornographic work · also Larry Flynt, Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr., Larry Flint, Flynt

Born 1 November 1942 · Died 10 February 2021 · Q223839

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I have had many years in this wheelchair to think about this very topic.
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I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.
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2026· 2 entries

Aug 17, 2026Documented record87% confidence

“I have had many years in this wheelchair to think about this very topic.”

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Aug 17, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.”

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2025· 1 entry

Jun 22, 2025Documented record69% confidence

AOL: Larry Flynt’s widow, unshaken by OnlyFans boom, says Hustler is still evolving after its provocative past

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2023· 3 entries

Jun 21, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: Larry Flynt's estate won't send 'single penny' to Kentucky brother after lawsuit dismissed

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Jun 21, 2023Documented record69% confidence

The Courier-Journal: With lawsuit dismissed, Larry Flynt's estate won't send 'single penny' to Kentucky brother

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Jun 16, 2023Documented record69% confidence

radaronline: Larry Flynt's Brother Drops Battle With Late Publisher's Widow Over Hustler Fortune 'Without Receiving a Single Penny'

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2022· 1 entry

2022Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

When adjusted for inflation) from his savings and bought his mother's bar in Dayton, Ohio, called the Keewee

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2021· 2 entries

Feb 10, 2021Documented record78% confidence

Reuters: Larry Flynt, porn publisher and free-speech activist, dead at 78

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Feb 10, 2021Documented record86% confidence

Died 2021-02-10.

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2019· 1 entry

2019Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

A 2019 Christmas card from Larry Flynt Publications, sent to several Republican congressmen, depicted Trump's assassination.

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2014· 1 entry

2014Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt said his print portfolio made up only 10% of his company's revenue, and predicted the demise of Hustler due to competition from the Internet

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2013· 1 entry

2013Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Said he was "a civil libertarian to the core", though he once attempted a presidential run as a Republican in 1984

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2012· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2012Documented record84% confidence

Awarded XBIZ Industry Icon Award (2012).

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2012Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt offered a $1 million reward for information on Mitt Romney's unreleased tax returns and ran two full-page ads in USA Today and The Washington Post to promote the offer

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2007· 1 entry

2007Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt repeated his $1 million offer and also wrote the foreword to Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer's The Brotherhood of Disappearing Pants: A field guide to conservative sex scandals, which contained some cases publis

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2004· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2004Documented record84% confidence

Awarded XBIZ Lifetime Achievement (2004).

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2004Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

Flynt supported activist groups opposed to the war in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

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2003· 2 entries

2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt was a candidate in the recall election of California governor Gray Davis, calling himself a "smut peddler who cares"

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2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt purchased nude photographs of former PFC Jessica Lynch, who was captured by Iraqi forces, rescued from an Iraqi hospital by U

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2001· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2001Documented record84% confidence

Awarded NightMoves Award (2001).

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2000· 1 entry

Jun 22, 2000Documented record70% confidence

Flynt opened the Hustler Casino, a card room located in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena

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1999· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1999Documented record84% confidence

Awarded AVN Special Achievement Awards (1999).

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1998· 3 entries

1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Through the Hustler Video film studio, which purchased VCA Pictures in 2003

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1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Offering $1 million for evidence and publishing the results in The Flynt Report

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1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

He did so during the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton in 1998, offering $1 million for evidence and publishing the results in The Flynt Report.

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1996· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1996Documented record87% confidence

“s Fresh Air in 1996. The high school drop out was born in a log cabin, in Kentucky. His magazine, Hustler, started as a newsletter promoting Flynt”

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1992· 1 entry

1992Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

When an appeals court ruled that the jury should not have seen cartoons drawn by Tinsley

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1989· 1 entry

1989Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Tinsley was arrested, charged with molesting his daughter from age 13–18

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1988· 1 entry

1988Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt won a Supreme Court decision, Hustler Magazine v

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1983· 3 entries

1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

With Flynt losing the case

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an outhouse

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Leaked an FBI surveillance tape to the media regarding John DeLorean

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1978· 2 entries

Mar 6, 1978Documented record70% confidence

During a legal battle related to obscenity in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Flynt and his local attorney, Gene Reeves Jr

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Jan 1, 1978Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: attempted murder.

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1977· 2 entries

1977Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And later its output included other mainstream work

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1977Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

By evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of Jimmy Carter

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1976· 3 entries

1976Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And they remained married for eleven years until her death at age 33

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1976Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Kathy Keeton, then girlfriend of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, filed a libel suit against Flynt in Ohio

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1976Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

By Simon Leis, who headed a local anti-pornography committee

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1951· 1 entry

1951Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Flynt's sister, Judy, died of leukemia at age four

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1942· 1 entry

Nov 1, 1942Documented record86% confidence

Born 1942-11-01.

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