| Larry Flynt, who built a pornographic publishing empire before becoming First Amendment champion, dies |
| Flynt, the son of a dirt-poor Kentucky sharecropper, amassed a pornographic publishing empire and later became an unlikely First Amendment champion and self-appointed arbitrator of political hypocrisy. The Hustler Magazine founder, who died at 78, had suffered numerous health complications since he was shot and paralyzed in 1978 by a white supremacist as Flynt was arriving for an obscenity trial in Georgia. |
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