All that remains of ‘King of Smut’ Hustler pornographer Larry Flynt’s private $35m jet go on sale for just $18K
- Larry Flynt’s $35million jet is on sale at Facebook Marketplace for just $18,000
- Flynt died last year and was known for his porn empire and Hustler magazine
- The remains of the ‘King of Smut’ Hustler pornographer’s plane are being sold
- The black jet has the word Hustler emblazoned on the site in gold capital letters
The remains of Hustler pornographer Larry Flynt’s private jet are for sale online at a fraction of its original price.
The so-called ‘King of Smut’ owned at least four private jets, including a $35million 2006 Gulfstream G-IV, which has been put up for sale on Facebook Marketplace with a price tag of just $18,000 in Florida.
The black jet has the word Hustler, after the porn magazine Flynt set up, emblazoned on the site in gold capital letters.
Aeroplane salvage hunter Ozzie Saez put the Hollywood porn king’s plane on Facebook Marketplace this month for just $18,000.
The remains of a $35million jet previously owned by porn tycoon and self-described ‘smut-peddler’ Larry Flynt are on sale for just $18,000 in Valrico, Florida
The 2006 Gulfstream G-IV is painted black and has the word Hustler emblazoned on the site in gold capital letters after the monthly pornographic magazine founded by Flynt
The plane is not whole and is already missing its two Rolls-Royce RB.184 Tay engines, wings, custom interior and landing gear
The ‘King of Smut’ died last year aged 78 and was best known for creating a porn empire centred on Hustler. Pictured: Flynt with Hustler models (left to right) Vanessa Graw, Tanya Schafer and Nikki Gray in 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada
It is available to be picked up from its hangar in Valrico, Florida.
However, the plane is not whole and is already missing its two Rolls-Royce RB.184 Tay engines, wings, custom interior and landing gear.
It is likely the two engines on their own would be worth more than if they remained attached to the plane, which has decreased in value because of the need for repairs and maintenance.
Saez, of Aero Salvage Design, usually tears old planes into pieces to sell for parts.
Ozzie Saez (pictured) of Aero Salvage Design put the Hollywood porn king’s plane on Facebook Marketplace this month for just $18,000
Flynt is seen in November 2004, celebrating his 62nd birthday at The Hustler Club in Paris
Larry Flynt, pictured in March 2009, owned a number of private jets worth millions of dollars
He kept Flynt’s plane relatively intact because of its famous porn tycoon owner but is offering to sell it in sections at $500 per foot.
As well as founding Hustler Flynt was an outspoken First Amendment activist who built a $400 million adult entertainment empire.
He died from heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home aged 78 in February last year, although he had battled a series of health problems since a 1978 murder attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
White supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin attempted to kill Flynt as he left court in Georgia.
Franklin shot him and left him paralyzed, in retaliation for Hustler publishing images of interracial sex.
The controversial mogul and self-described First Amendment champion had been involved in numerous legal battles involving free speech and pornography regulations.
He often clashed with feminist groups and the religious right, and was once sued by televangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell in a case that made it to the US Supreme Court.
Flynt opened the first Hustler Club in Ohio in the 1960s and created an erotic empire
Flynt is pictured at home in Los Angeles in March 1979, a year after he survived being shot
Flynt and his fifth wife, Elizabeth Berrios, are pictured at the Oxford Union, Britain, in February 2014
Woody Harrelson in the 1996 film
A self-described ‘smut-peddler’ who transformed his Mid West strip clubs into the multi-million-dollar Hustler empire, Flynt was passionate about personal freedoms.
He was an unlikely free-speech activist known for his legal battles over pornography regulations. Aside from pornography, he launched unsuccessful bids for political office.
His life was made into a 1996 film, The People vs Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton and Courtney Love, which chronicled his rise to fame and his clashes with religious institutions and the law.
Flynt was married five times, and had five children – his daughter Lisa Flynt-Fugate died in a car crash in Ohio in October 2014, at the age of 47.
He was survived by T.J. Flynt; Theresa Flynt, who worked in marketing for the retail side of Hustler; Tonya Flynt-Vega, who accused her father of sexual abuse – claims he denied – and began the Coalition Against Pornography; and Larry Flynt Jr, who his father said was ‘worthless’.
He married Elizabeth Berrios, his former nurse, in 1998.
In 2013 he told The Hollywood Reporter he was estranged from four of his five children, because he claimed they just wanted his money and were not prepared to show an interest in running his business.
Larry Flynt’s most controversial published photos
Jackie Onassis: Photos of the former First Lady sunbathing nude were splashed across pages of the August 1975 issue of Hustler magazine.
He bought the paparazzi pictures of her sunbathing on a beach in Greece for $18,000 and quickly sold a million copies of the issue that featured them.
In June 1978, a Hustler cover showed a woman’s legs and lower torso stuffed into a meat grinder
Meat Grinder cover image: In June 1978, a Hustler cover showed a woman’s legs and lower torso stuffed into a meat grinder with chop-meat coming out the other end.
Flynt added a quote which read: ‘We will no longer hang women up like pieces of meat.’
‘Pink Shots’: In November 1974, the magazine published photos of open vulvas.
Flynt had to fight to publish each issue, as many people, including some at his distribution company, found the magazine too explicit and threatened to remove it from the market.
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