Hunter Biden Claims He’s ‘Millions In Debt’ In Court Filing Asking Judge To Drop His Laptop-Hacking Lawsuit

Alessio AtriaMarch 7, 2025, 2:42 pmNews >

Former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, declared in a court filing that he has enormous debts and requested that the laptop hacking lawsuit that he filed be dropped.

On Sept. 13, 2023, Hunter filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s legal aide, Garrett Ziegler, after it was alleged that Ziegler used private materials retrieved from Hunter’s laptop.

The lawsuit claims that Ziegler and his company, Marco Polo, and ten others violated computer fraud and data access laws.

It also states that Ziegler and those named in the lawsuit “have, to at least some extent, accessed, tampered with, manipulated, altered, copied and damaged Plaintiff’s data and that their actions are illegal, unauthorized and without Plaintiff’s consent.”

President Biden pardoned Hunter from federal tax and gun charges before leaving office.

The hard drive that Ziegler allegedly copied was stolen from Hunter’s personal laptop, which was reportedly left at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. After years of unclear answers as to whether or not the computer was his, Biden’s son confessed in early 2023 that it did belong to him.

According to a letter from Hunter’s lawyer to Ziegler’s attorney this week, the former first son “lacks the resources to continue this litigation at this time.”

Ziegler isn’t eager to settle. “Hunter wants to cry, uncle,” he stated. “We are opposing that. We want our attorneys’ fees to be paid, for Hunter to cease lying about us and me, and to generally shut the f— up.”

On Wednesday, Hunter’s lawyers issued their request to the judge, saying Hunter “has significant debt in the millions of dollars range.”

“Plaintiff does not have the resources to continue to litigate this matter,” the 19-page filing by attorney Bryan Sullivan stated.

“Plaintiff has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” it added. “Moreover, this lack of resources has been exacerbated after the fires in the Pacific Palisades.”

The lawsuit also said that the former president’s son “suffered a significant downturn in his income over the past 18 months with reduced book and art sales, which has been his main source of income over the prior years.”

Hunter’s lawyers stated that he “must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family’s living expenses as opposed to this litigation.”

“Defendants will not suffer any legal prejudice by this voluntary dismissal without prejudice because they will not lose any rights or defenses and already took the opportunity to attack the pleadings on their motion to dismiss and anti-SLAPP motion, but lost,” the lawyers declared.

It is now up to Judge Hernán Vera to choose if the former first son is allowed to free himself from the legal battle he began.