Not much is known about thje exact circumstances around the the couple meeting, but the Washington Post claimed Liz Berrios was his former nurse. She married Larry Flynt on June 20, , and they remained together until his death from heart failure in February No, despite the couple being together for over 20 years, they did not have any children together.
But Larry has five daughters and a son, as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, from his previous four marriages. The self-described "smut-peddler" and the man behind the multi-million dollar Hustler empire, Flynt has been paralyzed from the waist down since being shot in Her grandmother had survived that ordeal. There she had suffered sexual abuse at the homes of "potential adopters" and so, she ran away from her homes multiple times.
She had met Flynt when she was 17 years of age in the year when she had applied for a job as a go-go dancer in a Hustler club in Columbus, Ohio.
The couple got married on August 21, , and Althea even became the magazine's first life-size centerfold. She joined Flynt's Hustler antics and reportedly helped with "development, editing, publication, and management.
In the s, Althea had also wanted to start a magazine called The Rage that would focus on "punk subculture", but it never happened. She later ended up becoming addicted to Larry's pain pills given to him after he was shot in in Reportedly it involved, "morphine, cocaine, marijuana, methadone, and so on.
Her death stirred quite a controversy as she had drowned in her bathtub at the age of 33 in her and Flynt's home in Los Angeles. Reports indicated that she had lost consciousness after she overdosed on prescription drugs. According to a The Washington Post article, Flynt had bought Althea "interesting gifts" such as a "furnished home in the Rocky Mountains, or the call girl of her choice at a New York brothel.
The couple had allegedly even considered using cryonics. While some of Althea's friends thought of her death as a possible suicide, Larry said that he believed she was "thin and sick and fell asleep in the bathwater. He reportedly said , "she would have left me a note. The couple did not have children together. Years after Althea's death, Flynt moved on with his fifth wife. Wanting to expand his empire, he decided to publish his own girlie magazine, "Hustler", named after his clubs.
The first issue came out in July and was instantly a hit, owing to its detailed pornographic descriptions of women. After a few months, however, sales dipped to a low point, resulting in bankruptcy by , although candid photographs of a nude Jacqueline Kennedy --at that time Jackie Kennedy Onassis--published in August put Hustler back in the national spotlight.
Flynt's controversial and unconventional ways earned him both respect and hatred from a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations, including many feminists who found the articles in Hustler misogynist, offensive and demeaning. He continued having affairs with various women, including a model named Althea Leasure , whom he married in August Charged in February of with obscenity and organized crime ties, he was tried in Cincinnati and convicted of all charges, although the verdict was later overturned on appeal due to allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and judicial and jury bias.
Flynt's legal hassles brought him to the attention of Ruth Carter Stapleton , sister of President Jimmy Carter , who inspired him to make a career turn. Becoming a born-again Christian, Flynt soon included religion in his Hustler issues, which infuriated Christian and religious fundamentalist groups.
He abandoned his faith in March when he was shot by a sniper outside a courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down as it turned out, the shooter--a neo-Nazi white supremacist named Joseph Paul Franklin took offense at several photo spreads in Hustler depicting black men having simulated sex with white women and stalked Flynt until he had a chance to shoot him. With daily death threats against him, and the police both unwilling and unable to protect him, Flynt moved his publishing company from Ohio to Los Angeles at the end of , living in a huge mansion in Bel Air with Althea.
Wracked by constant back pain from internal injuries as a result of the gunshot wounds, and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he lived almost as a recluse, seldom venturing outside his house unless accompanied by several burly, armed-to-the-teeth bodyguards. Addicted to painkillers, Flynt took Valium, Percodan, Percocette, Librium, Demerol, morphine and Dialdud pills and injections on a daily basis. In he suffered a near-fatal stroke caused by one of several overdoses of his analgesic medications; he recovered but has had speech pronunciation difficulties since.
In he underwent the first of a series of DREZ laser surgeries on his back to repair the damage to the nerve center around his bullet wounds the second was in , the third in , which slowly cured him of his back pain and his painkiller addiction.
Flynt continued his practice of bringing lawsuits against various parties, one of which, in November , involved his ownership of a videotape showing the real nature of the arrest and entrapment of car entrepreneur John DeLorean for drug trafficking. Flynt then and to this day refused to disclose how he came to acquire the videotape and was sentenced to 15 months in a mental hospital for contempt of court.
During his stay in the hospital, he was clinically diagnosed as having bipolar disorder, which is responsible for his unpredictable verbal outbursts and fits of rage in which he remains on medication to this day.
That same month Hustler magazine published an article lampooning Christian fundamentalist televangelist Jerry Falwell , a longtime opponent of Flynt's polices; the article portrayed Falwell as a drunkard who had committed incest with his mother. Flynt took his appeal against the verdict all the way to the U.
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