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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, his brother confirmed
  • He was best known for his pornography publishing empire and Hustler
  • He began with Ohio strip clubs and built up a $100 million company 
  • Flynt became a First Amendment crusader and fought multiple legal battles
  • In February 1988 he won a landmark Supreme Court case on freedom of speech
  • Flynt has published a spoof Campari ad mocking televangelist Jerry Falwell
  • Falwell sued but the Supreme Court ruled that satire and parody was protected 
  • He ran for president in 1984 as a Republican but said he was a libertarian
  • In October 2016 he offered a $10m reward for evidence to impeachment Trump 
  • Flynt was married five times, and married his current wife Elizabeth in 1998

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