Word: flynt
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IMPRISONED. Larry Flynt, 41, pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher; for 15 months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, "I'm crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing." When he yelled, "Give me more!" Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months...
...damn-the-consequences policy in October when it aired videotapes of the arrest of Automaker John De Lorean on cocaine trafficking charges, even at the risk of imperiling the chance of finding an impartial jury. The tapes were of dubiously lawful origin-CBS acquired them from Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt, who bought them from a clerk at a law firm that had briefly represented De Lorean-and they did not break news that would otherwise have gone unreported: the actual footage was scheduled to be introduced into evidence at the trial. The network's rationale, according to CBS News...
...heavily armed U.S. marshals waiting last week outside the gates of Porn Peddler Larry Flynt's Bel-Air, Calif., mansion were taking no chances. Flynt, 41, who had been paralyzed by a would-be assassin's bullet, had been quoted as saying he would shoot anyone who came to get him "right between the eyes." But this time, at least, he was not true to his word. "If any of you want to know if this is a publicity gimmick, yes, it is," he told reporters, "and thank God you all fell for it." Then, wearing a LARRY...
...network had obtained the tapes from Larry Flynt, the millionaire publisher of lurid Hustler magazine. Flynt made copies available both to 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and to a reporter for KNXT-TV, the CBS station in Los Angeles. The news executives concluded that there would be little impact on De Lorean's ability to get a fair trial and that the tapes' newsworthiness more than outweighed the risk. The CBS arguments about lack of impact and newsiness seemed to carom into each other. "This story is an old story," insisted Hewitt...
Meanwhile, the source of the brouhaha, Larry Flynt, is about to come under some official scrutiny. The U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles has launched an investigation to find out how Flynt got his hands on what was presumably closely guarded Government evidence. The mercurial publisher, basking in the media lights, claims that the tapes came from a Government agent. Flynt says he paid $25 million for them. Flynt, who is running for President on a platform that alleges various Government conspiracies, says his purpose here was to prove that De Lorean had been framed. Since he hardly seemed to have...