Hunter Biden’s legal team filed paperwork on April 6 asserting that the former first son “cannot afford” to pay his outstanding legal fees, citing a “significant downturn in his income” and debts reportedly totaling $17 million.
In a legal filing submitted this week, attorney Barry Coburn argued that Hunter Biden is currently unable to cover his mounting legal expenses, noting that “Mr. Biden lives abroad” and has seen his primary sources of income, including art sales, largely dry up. This financial strain follows Biden’s 2024 convictions on federal gun and tax charges for which he was later pardoned and his subsequent disbarment in Connecticut and Washington, D.C., for ethical misconduct involving “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.”
Citing a “significant debt in the millions of dollars range” and the loss of his Los Angeles home to wildfires, Biden’s attorneys have moved to drop a lawsuit against former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler, with Biden himself previously stating, “Look at the past six years of my life and the $17 million of debt that I’m in, as it relates to my legal fees.”