Hunter Biden sues Fox News over program on streaming service
Hunter Biden has sued Fox News over a program it published and then took down from its subscriber streaming service Fox Nation.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in the Supreme Court of New York, Biden’s attorneys allege Fox targeted the president’s son “in an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation.”
“Far from reporting on a newsworthy event, Fox sought to commercialize Mr. Biden’s personality through a form of treatment distinct from the dissemination of news or information,” the lawsuit reads. “While using certain true information, the series intentionally manipulates the facts,
distorts the truth, narrates happenings out of context, and invents dialogue intended to entertain.”
The lawsuit further alleges that the miniseries “unlawfully publishes numerous intimate images (both still and video) of Mr. Biden depicting him in the nude, depicting an unclothed or exposed intimate part of him, as well as engaged in sex acts.”
Biden’s attorneys first threatened to sue the conservative media behemoth over the program in April, at which point the outlet unpublished the docuseries from the streaming service.
“This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” the network said at the time. “We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and — out of an abundance of caution in the interim — have taken it down.”
In a statement to The Hill on Monday, Fox said, “this entirely politically motivated lawsuit is devoid of merit.”
“The core complaint stems from a 2022 streaming program that Mr. Biden did not complain about until sending a letter in late 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,” the network said. “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.”
Updated at 6:29 p.m. ET
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