Larry Flynt, Hustler founder, dies 78

Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. (November 1, 1942 – February 10, 2021) was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and unsuccessfully ran for public office. He was paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the “50 Powerful People in Porn” list.

Flynt said that he had bipolar disorder.

His daughter Lisa Flynt-Fugate died in a car crash in Ohio in October 2014 at the age of 47.

Larry Flynt cause of death

Flynt died from heart failure in Los Angeles on February 10, 2021, at the age of 78.

J. D. Power III, founder of J.D. Power. dies 89

James David Power III (May 30, 1931 – January 23, 2021) was the founder of the marketing firm J.D. Power and Associates.

Power began conducting customer satisfaction research on April 1, 1968, as founder of the marketing information firm J.D. Power and Associates. Initially, the “Associates” in the firm’s title were his own wife and children. In 1972, the company first drew national attention when Julie P. Power, David Power’s wife, discovered a design flaw in certain Mazda automobiles, which was then publicized by The Wall Street Journal. In the following years, J. D. Power and Associates became well known for its automotive customer satisfaction rankings. Power sold the company to McGraw-Hill in 2005 for an undisclosed amount of money. He also stepped down as chairman but remained active with strategic planning.

Cause of death is not known

Benjamin Keough, Elvis Presley’s grandson, died by suicide, 27

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of singer Elvis Presley, married Chicago-born musician Danny Keough on October 3, 1988. They had two children: a daughter, Danielle Riley Keough (born May 29, 1989), and a son, Benjamin Storm Keough (October 21, 1992 – July 12, 2020).

Her son Benjamin Keough died on July 12, 2020 at the age of 27 in Calabasas, California, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher who married student, dies 58

Mary Katherine Letourneau (formerly Schmitz; January 30, 1962 – July 6, 2020) was an American schoolteacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child, Vili Fualaau, who was 12 or 13 at the time and had been her sixth-grade student. While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau’s child. With the state seeking a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence, she reached a plea agreement calling for six months in jail, with three months suspended, and no contact with Fualaau for life among other terms. The case received national attention.

Shortly after spending three months in jail, the police caught Letourneau in a car with Fualaau. A judge revoked her plea agreement and reinstated the prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of seven-and-a-half years. Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth to Fualaau’s second child, another daughter. She was imprisoned from 1998 to 2004. Letourneau and Fualaau were married in May 2005, and the marriage lasted 14 years until their separation in 2019.

Mary Kay Letourneau Says Her Affair With Student Was Real Love Story

On May 9, 2017, after almost 12 years of marriage, Fualaau filed for separation from Letourneau but later withdrew the filing.

As of April 2018, Fualaau was working at a home improvement store and as a professional DJ and Letourneau was working as a legal assistant.

The couple finalized a legal separation in August 2019. Earlier in the marriage, Vili Fualaau said he was not a victim, and was unashamed of the relationship. According to People in May 2020, an unnamed source “close to Faulauu” said that “He sees things clearly now, and realizes that this wasn’t a healthy relationship from the start.”

Mary Kay Letourneau cause of death

Letourneau died from colorectal cancer on July 6, 2020, at her home near Seattle; she was 58.

Larry Tesler, creator of copy, cut and paste function, dies 74

Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!

Tesler developed the idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software.

Tesler died in Portola Valley, California on February 16, 2020, at the age of 74

Jeffrey Epstein commits suicide while awaiting sex trafficking trial

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted sex offender, best known for his alleged sex trafficking of minors and close connections with many of the world’s elite. Epstein began his career in finance at the investment bank Bear Stearns, before forming his own firm, J. Epstein & Co. Until his conviction for sex crimes in 2008, Epstein was a well-connected multimillionaire who moved among the financial, political, and cultural elite of society.

In 2005, the Palm Beach police in Florida began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he molested her 14-year-old daughter. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty and was convicted in a Florida state court in 2008 of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an under-18 girl for prostitution. He served 13 months in custody with work release, as part of a plea deal, where federal officials had identified 36 girls as young as 14 years old who had been molested.

Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died on August 10, 2019, after reportedly hanging himself in his Manhattan prison cell.

Co-president of Nordstrom, Southwest co-founder

Herbert David Kelleher (March 12, 1931 – January 3, 2019) was an American billionaire airline executive and lawyer. He was the co-founder, later CEO, and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines until his death.

Blake Willard Nordstrom (October 4, 1960, Seattle – January 2, 2019, Seattle) was an American businessman and banker. The great-grandson of John W. Nordstrom, he served as sole President of the Nordstrom department store chain from 2000-14, and then co-president with his brothers, Peter and Erik Nordstrom, from 2015 until his death in 2019 at the age of 58.