Larry Claxton Flynt
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| Born |
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. November 1, 1942 Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| Residence |
Hollywood Hills, California, U.S. Lakeville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Publisher, free speech activist |
| Years active | 1965–present |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Flynt (1961–1965; divorced) Peggy Flynt (1966–1969; divorced) Kathy Flynt (1970–1975; divorced) Althea Leasure (1976–1987; widower) Elizabeth Berrios (m. 1998) |
| Children | 5 (1 deceased) |
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. (/flɪnt/; born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 murder 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, the first of three children to 23-year-old Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. (1919–2005), a sharecropper and a World War II veteran, and 17-year-old Edith (née Arnett; 1925–1982), a homemaker. He had two younger siblings: sister Judy (1947–1951) and brother Jimmy Ray Flynt (born June 20, 1948). His father served in the United States Army in the European Theatre of World War II. Due to his father's absence, Flynt was raised solely by his mother and maternal grandmother for the first three years of his life. Flynt was raised in poverty, and claimed Magoffin County was the poorest county in the nation during the Great Depression. In 1951, Flynt's sister, Judy, died due to 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 raised by his maternal grandmother in Magoffin County. Two years later, Flynt returned to live in Magoffin County with his father because he disliked his mother's new boyfriend.
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