Hunter Biden, son of President Biden filed a suit on The pair argued to Fox News on Sunday that the company-produced miniseries broke the law by sharing explicit photos and videos of them without their permission.
The program, “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” which first appeared in 2022 on Fox Nation, the network’s streaming service, presented a dramatized version of Mr. Biden’s criminal trial with fictional charges. The miniseries included real-life images of Mr. Biden nude and engaged in sexual acts, which were found on a laptop that Mr. Biden left at a computer repair shop in Delaware.
The suit, filed in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, accuses Fox of alleged infringement. Revenge porn laws was passed in New York State in 2019. This law allows people to sue those who share sexually explicit photos and videos of them without permission.
“Fox published and broadcast these intimate images to its massive audience of millions of people as part of an entertainment program intended to humiliate, harass, disturb, and tarnish the reputation of Mr. Biden,” the lawsuit states.
In a statement on Monday, a Fox News spokesperson called Mr. Biden's lawsuit “entirely politically motivated” and “devoid of merit.”
“Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of numerous investigations and is now a convicted felon,” the spokesperson said. “Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered newsworthy events created by Mr. Biden himself, and we look forward to vindicating our rights in court.”
Fox removed “The Trial of Hunter Biden” from Fox Nation in April, a day after Mr. Biden’s lawyers sent a letter to the network demanding that the miniseries be removed.
“The main complaint stems from a 2022 streaming program, which Mr. Biden did not complain about until he sent a letter in late April 2024,” a Fox spokeswoman said Monday, adding that the network removed the program “out of an abundance of caution.”
Last month, Mr Biden was found guilty of three serious crimes related to the gun purchase. He is due to be tried this year on tax evasion charges. The Fox mini-series depicts Mr Biden facing trial on charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent, but authorities never brought those charges against him.
A representative for Mr. Biden’s law firm declined to comment beyond the complaint on Monday. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and an order requiring that Fox remove all copies of explicit images of Mr. Biden from its platform.
Last year, Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, which accused the network of promoting unfounded claims about election fraud that tipped the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr.