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Larry Flynt, 'Hustler' Publisher and Unlikely First Amendment Champion, Dies at 78

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Larry Flynt, the tenacious, controversial and free-thinking entrepreneur who took a string of strip clubs and built them into Hustler, one of the world's most successful sex-based brands, has died.

He was 78. Flynt died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from a sudden illness, according to his manager Minda Gowen.

Flynt changed the face of publishing withHustlermagazine, an explicitly lewd monthly featuring nude photos and crude, below-the-belt humor.

Launched in 1974,it focused on a part of the female anatomy that Flynt feltPlayboywas overlooking. "I was always interested in the crotch," he toldThe Independentin a 2011 interview.

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