The Washington Post (WP) reported on the 10th (local time) that Flint died at his home in Los Angeles (LA).
However, no specific signature was disclosed.
Flint is a person who has been in court on several occasions for obscenity by publishing pornographic material with explicit content.
His story was released in the movie’Larry Flint’ (1996) and garnered attention.
Born to a poor family in Kentucky, Flint started working in a GM plant after dropping out of high school, and in 1968 with his younger brother opened the Hustler Club in Ohio, and entered the adult industry in earnest.
He published a newsletter to promote adult clubs, and later transformed the newsletter into an adult magazine’Husler’.
Hustler published pornographic material that would obscure rival’Playboy’.
In 1975, he secretly took a photo of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the wife of former President John F. Kennedy, enjoying a naked sunbathing on a hustler, and posted shocking pornography on the cover photo.
In 1979, he was shot by a white supremacist who was dissatisfied with the contents of the Hustler’s publication, and became dubious, and since then, he has been in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
He also dreamed of advancing into politics by challenging the elections for governor and president of California.
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