Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications. LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and unsuccessfully ran for public office. He was paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.
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Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications. LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and unsuccessfully ran for public office. He was paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the \”50 Powerful People in Porn\” list.Flynt was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, to a sharecropper and a World War II veteran. He had two younger siblings: sister Judy and brother Jimmy Ray Flynt. His father served in the United States Army in the European theatre of World War Two. In 1951, Flynt’s sister, Judy, died of leukemia at age four. The death provoked his parents’ divorce one year later; Flynt was raised by his mother in Hamlet, Indiana, and his brother, Jimmy, was raise by his maternal grandmother in Magoffsin County. He ran away from home and, despite being only 15 years old, joined the U.S. Army using a counterfeit birth certificate. After being honorably discharged, he found employment at the Inland Manufacturing Company, an affiliate of General Motors, but he was laid off after only three months. He then returned to his father in Kentucky.
In early 1965, he bought his mother’s bar in Dayton, Ohio, called the Keewee. He refitted it and was soon making USD 1,000 a week; he used the profits to buy two other bars. He worked as many as 20 hours a day, taking amphetamines to stay awake. In January 1972, he created the Hustler Newsletter, a two-page, black-and-white publication about his clubs. In November 1974, Hustler showed the first issue of Hustler-shots, the first edition of which was published in November 1974. He paid the start-up costs of the new magazine with national distribution costs by deferring the payment of his taxes on sales of the magazine. He also acquired the Dayton franchise of a small newspaper called Bachelor’s Beat, which he published for two years before selling it. In 1973, the American economy entered recession, and Flynt had to refinance his Hustler debts or declare bankruptcy. He said that Hustler took its inspiration from his own tabloid, SCREW, but credited him with accomplishing what he had not accomplishing: creating a national publication. In July 1974, he opened Hustler Clubs in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo, Ohio. Soon each club grossed between USD 260,000 and USD 520,000A year. He later opened the first Hustler Club in Cincinnati, which was also the first in the area to feature nude hostess dancers; he named it the Hustlers Club.
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