Althea Flynt is one of the most popular and richest Family Member who was born on November 6, 1953 in Marietta, Ohio, United States. For her role as Althea Flynt, the troubled singer/actress in 1996’s The People vs. Larry Flynt, Troubled singer and actress Courtney Love received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Althea Flynt in the 1996 movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Althea Flynt (née Leasure; November 6, 1953 – June 27, 1987) was the fourth wife of Larry Flynt and the co-publisher of Flynt’s pornography magazine, Hustler.
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 was involved with the development, management and publication of the magazine until her untimely death; she ran the magazine and kept it afloat during Larry’s “born again” experience brought on by a psychotic bi-polar manic episode in 1977, his subsequent near-fatal crippling shooting in Georgia in 1978 and multiple bouts with bi-polar disorder which also led to his campaign for President of the United States in 1984.
She was raised with Richard, a brother, and three sisters, Marsha, Sherry, Marsha, and Debbie. She and her siblings were taken to an Ohio orphanage after their father killed their mother and then committed suicide.
She died from advanced AIDS at the age thirty-three.
Althea Leasure was born November 6, 1953, in Marietta, Ohio. Althea and her four siblings, Sherry, Debbie, Marsha and Richard, came from an abusive home. When Althea was eight, her father Richard shot and killed her mother, June, her grandfather, and June’s best friend, before fatally shooting himself. Althea’s grandmother was present during the incident, but survived by hiding in the nearby creek.
