Hunter Biden is “millions of dollars” in debt and lost his home in the California wildfires, he has told a judge.
The son of the former president has asked a district judge to throw out a lawsuit he filed against Garrett Zegiler, who he accused of illegally accessing his laptop, according to documents filed in federal court in California.
The former first son, who was pardoned by his father before he left office, blamed the wildfires as well as dwindling sales from his artwork for the debt which he says precludes him from continuing to pursue the case.
“[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” according to a motion filed in federal court in California on Wednesday.
“Like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live,” he claimed in the motion.
“While I was aware that my financial position had significantly deteriorated over time, it was not until the past month that I realized I had to take drastic actions to alleviate this situation.”
Hunter Biden first filed the suit against Mr Zeigler, who worked as an aide to president Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarrob during the last administration, in 2023.
He sued the former aide for allegedly illegally accessing and circulating the embarrassing contents of his infamous laptop on Ziegler’s right-wing nonprofit website Marco Polo.
Mr Zeigler has published much of Hunter’s laptop data on his site in the years since it was first exposed in 2020.
One of thousands of pictures of Hunter Biden discovered on the laptop
Detailing flagging profits from his art sales, Biden said that he had sold 27 pieces for an average 42,265 ($54,500) in the two or three years leading up to the lawsuit. Since then, he has sold just one piece for £28,000 ($36,000).
