Known for the pornographic empire he created in the publishing world, Larry Flynt he died yesterday at the age of 78 in Los Angeles for heart failure.
The controversial publisher was one of the biggest men in the adult entertainment industry after the launch of the review Hustler, in 1974, which brought him great popularity and several legal troubles, as reported TMZ.
After an assassination attempt by Joseph Paul Franklin, the publisher was paralyzed from the waist down four years after making his publication, forcing him to fight battles that were left as material to be addressed in the film ‘The people vs. Larry Flynt ‘1996. (Name of the Scandal), which featured the star of Woody Harrelson in the role of the tycoon.
The movie earned an Oscar nomination.
The film told its way into the adult industry until he was tied up in a wheelchair by a bullet. From there he showed the story, continued the management of his companies and fought for civil rights in the United States and freedom of speech, the last flag he always used to further edit the men’s magazine.
It took 11 years (2007) for the documentary “Larry Flynt: the right to be left alone” to be made, which looked at who was considered a common man. Shortly before that, another genre production, which combined its name with the word Hardcore, passed without pain or glory.
Flynt repeatedly clashed with religious men and was once charged by Jerry Falwell, whose case reached the US Supreme Court.
In the following years, Larry was president of Larry Flynt Publications, which produced pornographic videos and the Hustler TV channel in addition to making other publications.
Larry Flynt entered politics, and in 1984 had a brief presidential career alongside a candidate for California governor.
Flynt is credited with such phrases as, “What’s more obscene: sex or war?” and “eight million people buy it and no one reads it, they fool them,” referring to the magazine of the rabbit with a bow, his competition.
“I’m not trying to imply that you would like what Larry Flynt does. I don’t like what he does, but what I like is that I live in a country where you and I can decide for yourself, ”says Flynt’s character, played by Harrelson, at one point in the directed feature. Milos Forman.
Flynt’s final years were spent not only in a wheelchair, but struggling to spin and hear words.