Hunter Biden Cites Financial Challenges in Legal Filing, Attributes Decline in Art Sales and L.A. Fires – One America News Network
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
2:10 PM – Thursday, March 6, 2025
At 55 years old, Hunter Biden has expressed in a court document that he is facing challenges as an artist, citing his financial struggles due to poor art sales and the impacts of January’s fires in Los Angeles. This has significantly affected him after his father, former President Joe Biden, left office.
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In a recent court submission obtained by the media, the former first son requested a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit he initiated against a former advisor to Donald Trump, claiming he is burdened by millions in debt due to a lack of artwork sales.
Hunter has also allegedly lost property as a result of the devastating fires in Los Angeles.
The troubled former first son stated that he has managed to sell only one piece of his art since December 2023. His art primarily comprises colorful abstract pieces, which some have likened to the kind of art typically seen in hotel rooms.
While his father campaigned and during the initial years of his administration, Hunter reportedly earned nearly $1.5 million.
“In the two to three years before December 2023, I sold 27 art pieces at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then, I’ve only sold one piece for $36,000,” noted Hunter Biden’s legal team.
Sales of his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” also saw a significant drop, plummeting from 3,200 copies in the first half of 2023 to just over 1,100 in the latter half, as reported by his attorneys.
He expressed disbelief at the lack of demand for his work.
“Based on the positive feedback and reviews regarding my art and memoir, I anticipated opportunities for paid speaking engagements and appearances, but none have materialized,” Hunter commented.
A self-taught painter, Hunter began his art career while recovering from drug addiction and received a pardon from his father in the concluding days of his presidency.
This Wednesday, he filed a motion in a California federal court, arguing that his financial difficulties have hindered him from pursuing the lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler.
In the court documents, Biden claimed that his financial troubles were exacerbated by January’s fires in the Pacific Palisades region, rendering his Malibu rental property “unlivable.”
“Like many others in a similar predicament, I am struggling to find a new permanent residence,” he explained further in his motion. “While I recognized my financial situation had significantly worsened over time, I only realized in the past month that I needed to take drastic measures to improve my circumstances.”
Additionally, a source who spoke to the media during the fires claimed that a collection of Hunter’s artwork stored near his lawyer Kevin Morris’s Pacific Palisades home was destroyed.
The New York Times reported that Morris has invested over $6.5 million to support Hunter.
“[Hunter] has experienced a notable decrease in his income and carries significant debt amounting to millions of dollars,” his lawyers stated.
In 2023, Hunter filed a lawsuit against Ziegler, alleging he unlawfully accessed and disseminated embarrassing content from his infamous laptop on Ziegler’s nonprofit website Marco Polo.
Much of the data from Hunter’s laptop has been publicly shared on Ziegler’s platform since The New York Post first disclosed the device in 2020. Ziegler served as an advisor to Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, during the latter’s administration.
In his lawsuit, Hunter accuses Ziegler and others of violating data privacy laws and computer fraud by gaining access to “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” from the laptop.
“Hunter wants to give up. We are OPPOSED to that. We expect our legal fees to be compensated, for him to stop making false claims about us, and generally, to cease his incessant talking,” Ziegler remarked. “This is a misuse of the legal process and cannot continue. Our small nonprofit has had to scrape together legal expenses for nearly two years to contend with this immature man.”
Moreover, Hunter is entangled in a separate lawsuit against John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of a former Delaware computer repair shop, regarding the initial release of his laptop data. In his latest filing, Hunter indicated that he is assessing each of his ongoing lawsuits “individually to manage my constrained resources.”
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