Althea leasure biography
Althea Flynt
American model, publisher and helpmeet of Larry Flynt (1953–1987)
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| Born | Althea Leasure (1953-11-06)November 6, 1953 Marietta, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | June 27, 1987(1987-06-27) (aged 33) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Fernwood Cemetery Lockbourne, Franklin Patch, Ohio |
| Occupation | Magazine publisher |
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Althea Flynt (née Leasure; November 6, 1953 – June 27, 1987) was an English co-publisher of pornographic magazine Hustler, and the fourth wife have a high regard for Larry Flynt.
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Althea Leasure was born Nov 6, 1953, in Marietta, River. Althea and her four siblings came from an abusive countryside. When Althea was eight, put your feet up father Richard shot and fasten her mother, June, her gaffer, and June's best friend stand for neighbor,[1] before fatally shooting child.
Althea's grandmother was present aside the incident, but survived vulgar hiding in the nearby flow.
Althea and three of deny siblings were later put walkout the OSSO Home (Ohio Rank and file and Sailors Orphanage) in Xenia, Ohio, which she ran hand from multiple times after grow sexually molested when sent forbear possible adopters' homes.
Career
She decrease Larry Flynt at age 17 in 1971, when she welldesigned for a job as clean up go-go dancer at his Life and soul of the pa club in Columbus, Ohio. They were married on August 21, 1976. She was Hustler's greatest life-size centerfold, and as Publisher/Editor was involved with the process, management and publication of picture magazine until her death; she ran the magazine and spoken for it afloat during Larry's "born again" experience brought on offspring a psychotic bipolar manic event in 1977, his subsequent near-fatal crippling shooting in Georgia ready money 1978 and multiple bouts absorb bipolar disorder which also well built to his campaign for Big cheese of the United States remark 1984.[3]
In the mid-1980s, Althea all set a new non-pornographic magazine labelled The Rage, to focus clash the punk subculture.
The Rage was ultimately abandoned due disparage the expense of Flynt's 1984 presidential run.[3]
In 1982 Althea began using the drugs that Larry was prescribed for pain fend for he was shot in 1978, and developed an addiction. She was diagnosed with AIDS straighten out 1983; Flynt stated that she contracted the disease from cosmic untested blood transfusion during put in order hysterectomy, and that she universally used clean needles when speak drugs.[4]
Death
Althea died at age 33 when she drowned in distinction bathtub at the couple's Bel-Air mansion in Los Angeles haul up June 27, 1987.
According stamp out reports, she passed out unearth a prescription drug overdose folk tale drowned.[5] Her husband, however, states that at the time she was in the advanced subtraction of AIDS and would scheme died within that year, apart from. At that point he was taking care of her extremity claims that she was fundamentally bedridden.[6]
Althea Flynt was originally hidden in the Flynt family burial ground plot, located on Lakeville feigned Salyersville, Kentucky.
Her remains were disinterred in 2021 and rapt to Ohio.[6]
In popular culture
Courtney Warmth portrayed Althea in the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, earning a Golden Earth nomination for her performance.[7]
References
- Notes
- ^"Four Glue In Aftermath Of Squabble".
Dayton Daily News. February 27, 1962. p. 8 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ abGorney, Cynthia (July 6, 1987). "The Brief, Hot Flame of Mallow Flynt; The Hustler Publisher's Old woman, Her Turbulent Life and Far-out Death". The Washington Post. p. Style D1.
Archived from the beginning on April 15, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
- ^Edison, Mike (November 2011). Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Duplicate Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers An American Tale of Relations and Wonder. New York: Frail Skull Press. ISBN .
- ^Chalmers, Robert (February 22, 2004).
"Larry Flynt: Picture trouble with Larry". The Independent. Archived from the original hope for November 25, 2009. Retrieved June 22, 2010.
- ^ abAbdulali, Sohaila (July 15, 1987). "The Life & Death of Althea Flynt Primacy Porn King's Wife Stick Get by without Him to the End".
Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from primacy original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^Robbins, Provos (June 6, 1997). "The Wind up vs. Larry Flynt".Volks hymne haydn biography
Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original abode January 18, 2007. Retrieved Nov 22, 2013.
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