Larry Flynt

He has married five times. His first three marriages, namely with, Mary Flynt, Peggy Flynt and Kathy Flynt resulted in a divorce. He married his fourth wife, Althea Leasure in 1976; she died at the age of 33.

In 1976, he was prosecuted on the charges of obscenity by the head of a local anti-pornography committee, Simon Leis. He was sentences to seven to 25 years but served 6 days, after which the sentence was overturned.

In 1978, a gunman named Joseph Paul Franklin shot him and his lawyer, Gene Reeves outside a courtroom in Georgia. This permanently paralysed him in the legs, owning to which he had to become bound to a wheelchair and also caused speech impediments.

Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky. His father Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. was a World War II veteran and a sharecropper and his mother, Edith was a homemaker.

Until he was three, he grew up under the care of his mother and maternal grandmother, since his father was absent due to his service in the army. He had a younger sister, Judy and younger brother, Jimmy Ray Flynt.

In 1951, he lost his sister Judy to leukaemia. Soon his parents began to have problems and the next year his parents got divorced. He relocated to Hamlet, Indiana with his mother.

Life with his mother in Hamlet was not what he had imagined it to be. He did not get along with his mother’s boyfriend and strongly disliked him and hence moved back with his father in Magoffin County.

He went to the Magoffin County High School but eloped at the age of 15 and joined the United States Army using a fake certificate. He became passionate about poker during this phase of his life.

In 1965, he used his savings amount of $1800 to buy his mother’s bar, ‘Keewee', which was located in Dayton, Ohio. The venture was a success and he began earing $1000 per week.

After making profits from ‘Keewee', he purchased two other bars. He worked day and night in the bars, almost for 20 hours a day and often took pills to prevent him from falling asleep.

In 1968, he opened his first Hustler Club bar, which included a set of girls who were skimpily clad and nude dancers. He eventually opened branches in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo.

He later purchased a small newspaper, ‘Bachelor's Beat', which he sold after two years. In March 1972, he came out with the ' Hustler Newsletter', a four page, black and white newsletter containing information and updates about his clubs.

The 'Hustler Newsletter’ had become immensely popular with his customers and in May 1972, he increased its number of pages to 16 and in August further increased the number of pages to 32.

This infamous adult entertainment producer once wore a diaper made out of the American flag, for which he was granted a six months jail sentence for desecration of the flag.