Larry Flint
Larry Claxton Flynt was born on November 1st, 1942 in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, to Claxton Flynt and Edith (Arnett) Flynt. His family was very poor, Magoffin County being the poorest county in the nation.
During his freshman year he ran away from home and, despite being only fifteen years old, in the summer 1958 he joined the army using a counterfeit birth certificate.[3] It was around this time that he begun his passion for the game of poker.
In early 1965 he took $1,800 from his savings and bought his mother's Dayton, Ohio bar called the Keewee. He refitted it and soon he was making $1,000 a week from it which allowed him to buy two other bars.
From 1968 onward with the help of his brother Jimmy and his girlfriend Althea Leasure, he opened Hustler Club in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. Soon each one of them earned him between $75,000 and $100,000 each year.
In March 1972 he created the ‘Hustler Newsletter’, a small 4 pages black-and-white publication aiming to give information about his clubs. The new publication was so well received by the customers that by May 1972 it had 16 pages and in August 1973 32 pages. In July 1974, the first issue of Hustler was published and after a few issues in obscurity, profits began to skyrocket and the rest, as they say, is history.