Entrepreneur. Larry Flynt received fame as the president of Larry Flynt Publications, which sold adult entertainment, including the magazine "Hustler." He was born and raised in poverty in Lakeville, Kentucky, a small, isolated community in the hills of Magoffin County in Eastern Kentucky. He had a sister named Judy, who died at age 5 in 1951 of leukemia, and a brother named Jimmy, who was born in 1948. At the age of 10, his parents divorced, and then he and his mother moved to Hamlet, Indiana. Two years later, he returned to Kentucky to live with his father. At age 15, Flynt ran away from home and joined the Army with a counterfeit birth certificate, receiving an honorable discharge in 1959. After not being able to find steady employment, he moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1960, where he joined the Navy, working as a radar operative on the "USS Enterprise" until October of 1962 and then being discharged in 1964. He opened his first bar that same year and then another also that year. Often living on the wrong side of the law, he began selling illegal alcohol, but in 1968, he opened a club for higher-classed clientele, the Hustler Club. In 1971, Flynt owned Hustler Clubs throughout Ohio from Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Akron. By 1973, he owned at least 8 Hustler clubs, which produced an annual income of $75,000 to $100,000 each. Wanting to expand his empire, he began publishing a magazine, "Hustler," in July of 1974. The magazine was an instant hit, but by 1975, the magazine was facing bankruptcy, until he purchased and published in August of 1975 some revealing pictures of former United States First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and soon the magazine was lucrative again. He was taken to court several times and charged with crimes related to obscenity. After living on the wrong side of the law for years, he became a born-again Christian on the advice of Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of United States President Jimmy Carter, but later became an atheist. In March of 1978, he was shot and wounded by white supremacist and serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin outside of the courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia. After receiving spinal cord damage, he would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life and had chronic pain. His health decline continued for years, from surgeries, drug abuse, and having a near-fatal stroke. He had numerous legal battles, including one with televangelist Jerry Falwell, who sued him for libel after he printed an article about Falwell in the "Hustler." At one time, he was ordered to pay Falwell $200,000, but Flynt took his appeal, which stated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution was abused, to the United States Supreme Court in December of 1987, and the verdict was overturned in February of 1988. Larry Flynt continued to manage the magazine "Hustler" during this time. An Oscar-nominated film, "The People vs Larry Flynt," was released in 1996. Though his numerous romantic encounters were often made public, Flynt did marry five times: Mary Flynt from 1961 to 1965, Peggy Mathis from 1966 to 1969, Kathy Barr from December 1968 to April 1969, Althea Leasure Flynt from August 21, 1976 to June 27, 1987, and Elizabeth Berrios from June 20, 1998 to his death. From his romantic encounters and wives, he had four daughters and a son. He died of heart failure.

He has a cenotaph at the Flynt Family Plot, where his third wife, Althea Leasure, was originally buried. However, he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. After his death, Althea's family moved her remains to Ohio to be near family since the couple was not buried together.