NEW YORK– Hunter Biden has revived a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series.
The president’s son first sued Fox in New York in July about images used in the Fox Nation series “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” a “fake trial” of Hunter Biden on charges he did not face. Three weeks later, the same day, he dropped the charges without explanation President Joe Biden dropped out by the 2024 race.
On Tuesday, Hunter Biden filed a largely identical lawsuit in court in Manhattan, again arguing that the distribution of intimate images without his consent violates New York’s so-called revenge porn law. The new lawsuit adds a current Fox executive and a former executive as named defendants.
Biden’s attorney, Tina Glandian, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on why the lawsuit was revived.
Fox asked in a filing Tuesday to move the case to federal court. The company issued a statement describing the second lawsuit as “once again devoid of any merit.”
“The core complaint stems from a 2022 streaming program that Mr. Biden did not complain about until he sent a letter in late April 2024,” the statement said. “The program was removed within days of that 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.”
Biden was convicted in July of three firearms charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018. The six-part Fox Nation series depicted a dramatized trial on several fictional charges.