Broke Hunter Biden asks judge to toss laptop suit because he’s ‘millions’ in debt — and lost home in LA wildfires
By: Emily Crane (New York Post)
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Crying poor.
Hunter Biden has asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped against a former Trump White House aide — because he's "millions of dollars" in debt, "exacerbated" by losing a home in the Los Angeles wildfires, court filings show.
The embattled former first son, 55, blamed the recent fires, as well as dwindling sales from his artwork and memoir, for him being plagued by "significant debt" keeping him from "litigating this case" against Garrett Ziegler, according to a motion filed in federal court in California on Wednesday.
Hunter Biden has asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped against a former Trump White House aide — claiming he is now too broke to keep fighting it. Saquan Stimpson - CNP for NY Post
"[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range," his attorneys argued as they laid bare his apparent financial woes.
His financial troubles were only "exacerbated" by the Pacific Palisades wildfires in January that allegedly made the home he rents "unlivable," the filing states.
"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."
Elsewhere, Hunter blamed dwindling sales from his artworks and his 2021 memoir, "Beautiful Things", for his so-called dire financial situation.
"In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000," he argued in the motion.
"Similarly, for my book sales, in the six month period before the statements (April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023), based on the September 30, 2023 statement, 3,161 copies of my book were sold, but in the six months after the statements, only approximately 1,100 books were sold."
Garrett Ziegler has published much of Hunter's laptop data on his site in the years since The Post first exposed the device in 2020. Saquan Stimpson - CNP for NY Post
"Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened," he continued.
Hunter first filed the suit against Ziegler back in 2023 for allegedly illegally accessing and circulating the embarrassing contents of his infamous laptop on Ziegler's right-wing nonprofit website Marco Polo.
Ziegler, who worked as an aide to Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, during the last administration, has published much of Hunter's laptop data on his site in the years since The Post first exposed the device in 2020.
The suit accuses Zielger and others of breaching computer fraud and data laws by accessing "tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings" from the laptop.
Separately, Hunter has also been tied up in litigation with former Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac over his laptop data getting leaked in the first place.
Hunter noted in the latest filing that he was assessing each of his pending suits "case-by-case basis to allocate my limited resources."
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The money flow from China and Ukraine have dried up. I wonder why. I have absolutely no sympathy for this crackhead.
The only person that "lost" was the owner of the house this crackhead was renting. Sell some fingerpaints you douchebag. there are moronic liberals that will buy them.
People stopped buying his art once his dad lost power? Crazy.
Similar to how million dollar donations to the Clinton charity from russian oligarchs dried up once she lost access to power.
Crazy how that worked out.
So sad