Hunter Biden Drops Fox Lawsuit

UPDATE Jul 22, 2024 5:35 PM CDT

Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series. An attorney for the president's son filed a voluntary dismissal notice on Sunday in federal court in New York City, three weeks after the lawsuit was filed, the AP reports. It wasn't clear why the lawsuit was dropped. The lawsuit involved images shown in The Trial of Hunter Biden, which debuted on Fox Nation in 2022. The series features a "mock trial" of Hunter Biden on charges that he hasn't faced and includes images of him in the nude and engaged in sex acts, according to the lawsuit. The complaint claimed that the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law.

Jul 2, 2024 3:00 AM CDT

Hunter Biden accused Fox News in a lawsuit of unlawfully publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series, the AP reports. The president's son filed the lawsuit Sunday in state court in Manhattan over images in The Trial of Hunter Biden, which debuted on the streaming service Fox Nation in 2022. The series features a "mock trial" of Hunter Biden on charges he has not faced (bribery and improper financial dealings with foreign governments), and it includes images of Biden in the nude and engaged in sex acts, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law.

A Fox News spokesperson called it an "entirely politically motivated lawsuit" that was "devoid of merit" in an emailed statement. The statement noted that attorneys for Biden sent them a letter demanding its removal from streaming platforms in April 2024. "The program was removed within days of the letter, in an abundance of caution, but Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of multiple investigations and is now a convicted felon. Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered the newsworthy events of Mr. Biden's own making, and we look forward to vindicating our rights in court," the statement says. The lawsuit claims promotional materials have not been entirely removed by Fox and that the program is still available on some third-party streaming platforms. (More Hunter Biden stories.)