Hunter Biden Claims Financial Struggles, Blames Drop In Art Sales And L.A. Fires In Legal Filing

OAN Staff Brook Mallory
2:10pm – Thursday, March 6, 2025

Hunter Biden, 55, attributed his financial difficulties to La Fires in January through a court application that he was a struggling artist.

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In a recent court filing obtained by the press, the former firstborn child urged a federal judge to withdraw a laptop hacking lawsuit filed against a former White House advisor, claiming that he was in millions of dollars in debt because no one had purchased his artwork.

Hunter also reportedly lost his property due to a historic fire in Los Angeles.

The troubled ex-son claimed that since December 2023 he had only been able to sell one art. His portfolio consists of vibrant abstract paintings, mostly likened to the art of hotel rooms.

During the former President Biden's campaign and the first years of his administration, Hunter won nearly $1.5 million.

“In the two or three years before December 2023, I sold 27 pieces of art for an average price of $54,481.48, and since then I have only sold one piece of art for $36,000,” said a lawyer for Hunter Biden.

His 2021 memoir “Beautiful things” Sales also fell sharply, down from 3,200 copies in the six months of mid-2023 to just 1,100 copies in the next six months, according to the lawyers.

The former eldest son expressed shock at his lack of interest in his job.

“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoirs, I was hoping to get paid speaking engagement and paid appearances, but that didn't happen,” Hunter explained.

Biden, a self-taught artist who began drawing while treating a drug addiction, received pardon from Joe on the last day of his father's presidency.

He filed a motion in California's federal court on Wednesday, claiming that financial difficulties are preventing them from pursuing a lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler.

According to documents, Biden's financial difficulties were only “immortalized” by a January fire in Pallisard, the Pacific Ocean, and he leased Malibu's property, which in his own words was “invalid.”

“Like many others in such circumstances, I have difficulty finding a new permanent place to live,” he further insisted in the move. “I knew my financial situation had deteriorated significantly over time, but it wasn't in the past month that I realized that I had to take dramatic actions to alleviate this situation.”

A source who spoke to the media during the fire also claimed that the fire destroyed a cache of Hunter's artwork stored near Hunter's attorney Kevin Morris's Pacific Pallisard residence.

According to New York TimesMorris spent more than $6.5 million to help the Hunter.

“[Hunter] The lawyer continued.

In 2023, Hunter initially sued Ziegler on the Ziegler nonprofit website, who was allegedly popularized by gaining unauthorized access to humiliating photos and videos on his infamous laptop. Marco Polo.

Much of Hunter's laptop data has since been published on the Ziegler website New York Post The device was originally released in 2020. Ziegler was the adviser to President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro during his last administration.

Ziegler and others have been charged with lawsuits violating data law and computer fraud by having access to “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, dozens of videos and recordings” on their laptops.

“Hunter wants to cry his uncle. We're against that. We want Hunter to stop lying about us and me and generally pay the lawyer's fee to close F-K,” Ziegler said. “This is an abuse of the legal system. I can't stand it. Our small nonprofit had to cut down legal fees for nearly two years to deal with it like this Peter Pan's Manchild.”

Additionally, Hunter is involved in another lawsuit against John Paul McIsaac, former owner of Delaware's computer repair business, over the initial exposure of laptop data. In his latest filing, Hunter said he is assessing each of his ongoing lawsuits “case by case to allocate my limited resources.”