8.2.2023 4:05 PM James Larkin took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand trial for his role in running Backpage.
https://reason.com/2023/08/02/backpage-publisher-alt-weekly-entrepreneur-and-free-speech-warrior-james-larkin-has-died/ via @reason
PHOENIX − James Larkin, who helped turn the Phoenix alternative weekly New Times into a chain that took over the venerated Village Voice in New York, died by apparent suicide Monday, days before a federal trial on charges he knowingly used online classified ads to facilitate prostitution.
He was 74.
The Superior Police Department in Arizona confirmed his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, which happened in the rural town an hour east of Phoenix. Larkin lived in Paradise Valley.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/james-larkin-arizona-executive-who-faced-charges-of-aiding-prostitution-dead-at-74/ar-AA1eGN7F
backpage suicide wasn't noteable.