Althea Flynt ( November 6, 1953 – June 27, 1987) was an American co-publisher of pornographic magazine Hustler, and the fourth wife of Larry Flynt. Althea Leasure was born in Marietta, Ohio. Hustler is an American pornographic magazine published monthly by Larry Flynt Publications (LFP).
Career –
She met Larry Flynt at age 17 in 1971, when she applied for a job as a go-go dancer at his Hustler club in Columbus, Ohio. They were married on August 21, 1976. She was Hustler’s first life-size centerfold, and as Publisher/Editor.
She was involved with the development, management and publication of the magazine until her death; she ran the magazine and kept it afloat during Larry’s “born again” experience brought on by a psychotic bipolar manic episode in 1977, his subsequent near-fatal crippling shooting in Georgia in 1978 and multiple bouts with bipolar disorder which also led to his campaign for President of the United States in 1984.
In the mid-1980s, Althea planned a new non-pornographic magazine called The Rage, to focus on the punk subculture. The Rage was ultimately abandoned due to the expense of Flynt’s 1984 presidential run.
Althea Flynt with Larry Flynt.
In 1982 Althea began using the drugs that Larry was prescribed for pain after he was shot in 1978, and developed an addiction. She was diagnosed with AIDS in 1983.
Death- Althea died at age 33 when she drowned in the bathtub at the couple’s Bel-Air mansion in Los Angeles on June 27, 1987.
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