The scandalous founder of the magazine Hustler Larry Flint died at the age of 78. This was announced by his brother Jimmy Flint.
Flint remained a noticeable figure in porn industry for almost 50 years, starting to publish Hustler in 1974, and then expanding to three television channels known as Hustler TV. He also became famous thanks to numerous legal battles, one of which was perpetuated by the Nominated Oscar film Milos Forman "People against Larry Flint".
Hustomer for the first time produced a furor in 1975, when published naked photos of the former First Lady Jacqueline Oressis: Flint bought them for $ 18 thousand at the paparazzi, photographed onssis without her knowledge. More than a million copies of the issue were sold, which made a millionaire suppressing publisher.
"This is what people want. - explained Flint his approach to People in an interview with 1977 - when I began to publish Hustomer, I was striving for readers to see sex with my eyes. As he was for me when I grew up on the farm, I worked at the factory and on the street. "
"This approach cost me freedom."
In 1976, in Cincinnati Flint, they were convicted of obscene behavior and organized crime, sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 7 to 25 years. He was released after six days in prison - due to the accusations of the illegal behavior of the prosecutor's office and bias the jury.
During the next trial in 1978, the publisher was shot near the courthouse in the district of Guinnett, Georgia. Flint was injured by the spinal cord, due to which the rest of his life spent in a wheelchair.
The shooting and the most loud process involving Flinta - Magazine Hustler vs. Faluell - found themselves the focus of the 1996 biographical film "People vs. Larry Flint". The famous publisher played Woody Harrelson, while Flint himself appeared in the episodic role of the judge.
The victory over the TVPropisticist Larry Fowell in court strengthened the image of Flint as the most unusual defender of the first amendment and became a key decision regarding freedom of speech, since then quoted in numerous proceedings.
Faull himself, who tried to dry out Flint because of the caricature in his address, contacted the publisher 10 years after the verdict. They began to meet personally, to conduct a debate on which the issues of morality and the first amendment were discussed, and even exchange Christmas cards.
"I will never approve of his views. - wrote Flint after the death of Fawell in 2007 - but I could not imagine how it would end. It was for me the same shocking turn, like the victory in that famous business in the Supreme Court: We became friends. "