Hunter Biden Makes Desperate Legal Plea Amid Dwindling ‘Art’ Sales

Just six weeks after his father left the White House, Hunter Biden is broke again.

The on-again, off-again artist and recovering drug addict has told a judge that dwindling sales, combined with the destruction of his home in the Palisades, California wildfires, has left him destitute. The disclosure came within a request by the embattled Biden to toss a suit he originally brought against a Trump ally alleging he broke state and federal laws.

Continuing the legal saga, Biden went on, is no longer financially feasible because of “significant debt” accumulated while “litigating the case” against Garrett Ziegler, the founder of the company Marco Polo, which published an extensive list of documents and photographs found on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop in the form of an online searchable database.

“[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” attorneys for the former first son wrote in a recent California court filing.

The situation was “exacerbated” by the fiery, windswept destruction of his Palisades home, which is now “unlivable,” an understatement based on photographs showing a charred foundation with nothing left standing except a brick chimney.

“Like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live,” Biden 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.”

Biden is not doing particularly well with art or book sales either, he explained. His 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” is failing to fly off the shelves while the trickle of art purchases that took place while his father was president has subsided completely.

“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces of 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, according to the NY Post.

“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.”

“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.

The suit against Ziegler was first filed in 2023. In it, Hunter accused the former aide to Trump advisor Peter Navarro of allegedly illegally accessing the laptop’s contents and posting them online. Many of the photographs, including pictures of Biden smoking crack pipes or surrounded by prostitutes, were already made public during initial reporting by the Post in 2020.

For now, the Biden son’s litigation against the computer shop owner who gave away his forgotten laptop remains ongoing, but he told the California judge that he is staying in court on a “case-by-case basis to allocate my limited resources.”