Larry Flynt dead at 78: Controversial publisher who founded Hustler has died of heart failure
BREAKING NEWS: Larry Flynt dead at 78: Controversial publisher who founded Hustler and launched a porn empire has died in LA of heart failure
- Flynt died on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, TMZ said
- He was best known for his pornography publishing empire and Hustler
- Flynt became a First Amendment crusader and fought multiple legal battles
- He ran for president in 1984 as a Republican but said he was a libertarian
- In October 2017 he offered a $10m reward for evidence to impeachment Trump
- Flynt was married five times, and married his current wife Elizabeth in 1998
Larry Flynt, the porn publisher behind Hustler magazine, has died at the age of 78, TMZ is reporting.
He died on Wednesday morning of heart failure, the site said.
Flynt had been in a wheelchair since 1978, when white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin shot him in an attempted murder, in retaliation for Hustler publishing images of interracial sex.
Larry Flynt, pictured in March 2009, died on Wednesday morning of heart failure
Flynt was married five times, and had five children – his daughter Lisa Flynt-Fugate died in a car crash in Ohio in October 2014, at the age of 47.
He married Elizabeth Berrios in 1998.
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