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Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP), producing over twenty magazines, including Hustler with an annual turnover of around $150 million. He took part in several legal battles involving the First Amendment. He suffers from bipolar disorder and is paralyzed from the waist down after an assassination attempt.
Biography
Born in Magoffin County, Kentucky, he spent his childhood in poverty. His mother divorced his alcoholic father and when Flynt was 10 he moved to Indiana with his mother. Flynt joined the US Army in 1958 aged only fifteen, lasting barely a year. He then joined the Navy and served on the USS Enterprise. He left the Navy in 1964 and opened a strip club in Dayton, Ohio. He later owned several strip clubs and started his magazine Hustler in 1974.
He was married five times, the longest marriage was to his fourth wife Althea from 1976 until her death in 1987. She had been suffering from AIDS and drowned in a bath tub, possibly as a result of a heroin overdose. He has five children.
He had a one-year flirtation with evangelical Christianity, converted by evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton (sister of President Jimmy Carter) in 1977.
During a legal battle related to obscenity in Lawrenceville, Georgia on March 6, 1978, he and his lawyer Gene Reeves Jr were shot outside the courthouse by an assailant who was never convicted. The white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin confessed to the shooting while serving life in prison for a separate crime; he said he was outraged by an interracial photo shoot in Hustler. Flynt's injuries left him paralyzed from the waist down and initially in much pain, until surgery in 1983.
After the attack, he renounced Christianity and moved with Althea to a Bel Air mansion in Los Angeles.
Flynt disowned his eldest daughter Tonya Flynt-Vega after she became a Christian anti-pornography crusader. In her 1998 book Hustled she claims that she was sexually abused by Flynt as a child, which Flynt denies. She also wrote that Jesus spoke to her from a cross on a mountainside in the Catskill Mountains, New York.
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