Hunter Biden revives lawsuit against Fox News over use of explicit images

Hunter Biden has revived a lawsuit that accuses Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series.

The US president’s son first sued Fox in New York in July over images used in the Fox Nation series The Trial Of Hunter Biden, a “mock trial” of Hunter Biden on charges he has not faced.

He dropped the suit without explanation three weeks later, the same day President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race.

On Tuesday, Hunter Biden filed a largely identical suit in state court in Manhattan, again arguing that the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violates New York’s so-called revenge porn law.

The new suit adds one current Fox executive one former executive as named defendants.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Tina Glandian, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on why the suit was revived.

In a filing on Tuesday, Fox asked that the case be moved to federal court. The company issued a statement describing the second suit as “once again devoid of any merit”.

“The core complaint stems from a 2022 streaming programme that Mr Biden did not complain about until sending a letter in late April 2024,” the statement said.

“The programme 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.”

Hunter Biden was convicted in July of three felony firearms charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018. The six-part Fox Nation series depicted a dramatised court proceeding on different, fictional charges.