Larry Flynt – sleaze merchant and provocateur

The pornographer Larry Flynt, a self-confessed smut peddler, who made gzillions out of adult entertainment and became an unlikely champion for free speech, has died. He launched Hustler magazine in the 1970s initially as advertising for his strip club businesses and it grew into a more explicit and hardcore magazine than Playboy and Penthouse, with often violent imagery or illusions involving women and children and immigrants.  The Times described him as having an almost pathological need t