/ 2 November 2004

Porn king hopes Bush doesn’t win

American porn mogul Larry Flynt says he may decide to go into exile if United States President George Bush is re-elected.

”If Bush is re-elected — but I don’t want to even consider the thought for one second — I really have to think about living somewhere else,” Flynt said early on Monday in a strip club on the Champs Elysees in Paris where he was celebrating his 62nd birthday.

Flynt, who made his fortune after publishing the popular porn magazine Hustler, said he had come to Paris to ”escape the nauseating atmosphere of the electoral campaign”.

He was accompanied by 40 strippers, who came to Paris especially for the birthday celebration.

Holding one well-endowed dancer in each arm, Flynt told journalists that he hoped American voters will make ”a good choice for their individual freedoms”. — Sapa-DPA