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...call Larry Flynt a pornographer is like saying that Shakespeare wrote. Flynt is the very sultan of smut, and his Hustler (circ. 1.9 million) stoops to pander with articles and artwork on such themes as bestiality, mutilation, excrement and various gynecological oddities. Or, rather, it used...
...most remarkable religious conversions since Paul stopped kicking against the goad, Flynt last week announced that he had been recruited for Christ by Evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the President's sister. Hustler will be reborn as a "religious" skin magazine, he added, and his multimilliondollar, 400-employee empire of magazines and sex products may be turned into a nonprofit religious foundation. As Flynt told a Pentecostal congregation in Houston, where he had gone for the National Women's Conference: "I owe every woman in America an apology...
...Flynt's journey from horniness to holiness began earlier this year. While fighting-and losing-his much publicized obscenity trial in Cincinnati, Flynt recalls, an earlier urge "to find the truth and who I am" became an obsession. This fall CBS News Producer Joe Wershba steered him to Stapleton, who shared Flynt's concern about child abuse. Flynt spent a weekend with Stapleton and her veterinarian husband at their Fayetteville, N.C., home, and the Stapletons visited the Flynts' 23-room mansion in Columbus, where they discussed religion and sexual repression, Stapleton recalls. Flynt abruptly phoned her from...
What happened, Flynt told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, was that he had found God at 40,000 ft.-in a chartered jet somewhere between Denver and Houston. "It was powerful and awesome," says Flynt of the experience. "There I was, representing the pits of what is wrong in our society, and it happened. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried for God." At first, Flynt's wife Althea was also emotional over his conversion, for another reason. "The Lord may have entered your life," she told him, "but $20 million just walked...
...Atlanta, Judge William Alexander of the Fulton County State Court ordered Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, to stand trial on charges of disseminating obscene material. Flynt, who faces similar charges in neighboring Gwinnett County, is free on bail while appealing a seven- to 25-year sentence in Cincinnati. The new trials could mean added penalties of up to 17 years...