The store paid a $10,000 fine and agreed to stop selling X-rated videos as part of a plea agreement. He and his brother, Jimmy, who owned a store in Cincinnati, were indicted on obscenity and conspiracy charges. The charge was eventually overturned on appeal.įlynt also had a second run-in with authorities in Ohio in the late 1990s. He was found in contempt of court for screaming profanities at federal judges, and served several months. With a gruff voice but otherwise friendly demeanor, he rarely missed an opportunity to promote himself.Īmong his many legal battles was a dispute that erupted in 1983 when he said he obtained an FBI tape related to a drug sting involving carmaker John DeLorean. He added, “I loved him and may he rest in peace.”įrom his beginnings as a fledgling Ohio strip club owner to his reign as founder of one of the most outrageously explicit adult-oriented magazines, Flynt constantly challenged the establishment and was intensely disliked by the religious right and feminist groups that said he demeaned women and put them at risk with pictures of bondage and other controversial acts.Ī sober Flynt eventually returned to work, pain eased by surgery, and he tooled around his office in his signature gold-plated wheelchair. “He suffered decades of health issues and you can imagine it was pretty difficult,” said his nephew Jimmy Flynt Jr. He had been paralyzed and nearly killed in a 1986 assassination attempt. Gent Adult Magazine April 1983 Covergirl Cheryl, Harriet is Pregnant, Sylvia McFarland. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Porn purveyor Larry Flynt, who built Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment juggernaut that included casinos, films, websites and other enterprises as he relentlessly championed First Amendment rights, has died at age 78.įlynt, who had been in declining health, died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his longtime attorney, Paul Cambria, told The Associated Press. 90 Day Fiancs Natalie is running in Maxims cover girl contest.