WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden is crying poor once more over authorized money owed he incurred from retaining high-powered lawyer Abbe Lowell in his federal tax and gun crime case — even because the troubled former first son introduced a US-based tour with a preferred YouTuber the place he desires to cage-fight President Trump’s sons.
Lowell’s agency Winston and Strawn LLP sued Biden in Washington, DC, civil courtroom in June 2025 for breach of contract over the unpaid charges — which Biden stated as not too long ago as final December racked as much as as a lot as $15 million for all his authorized woes in recent times.
However as of March 2026, Biden and the regulation agency have been unable to agree on the entire quantity he owes, prompting a request to the choose to settle the dispute centered on the manufacturing of emails and different information memorializing what “portion” of the sum has gone unpaid.
“Neither we nor our consumer know the final word quantity owed,” Biden’s new lawyer Barry Coburn acknowledged in courtroom papers filed Monday in DC Superior Courtroom, because the deadline to supply discovery paperwork was scheduled for April 9.
“Our consumer is timpecunious. Now we have not engaged a billing guide or forensic accountant to overview the payments, simply as we’ve got not engaged an e-discovery vendor. We can’t afford it,” Coburn wrote, including that the Biden scion now “lives overseas” and is unable to even “pay his present attorneys.”
He, his South African-born spouse Melissa Cohen Biden, and son Beau had been noticed in Cape City in March and Might 2025 with a Secret Service element in tow, although it’s unclear if he has a everlasting deal with now within the nation or elsewhere.
Hunter was beforehand delinquent on as much as $6.5 million he owed one other one in every of his former attorneys, Kevin Morris, who earned a fortune representing the creators of the tv collection “South Park.”
Morris testified to Home committees probing the then-first son’s funds in January 2024 that Hunter might have executed “any variety of issues” to pay him again — together with “come over and wash your automobile for the remainder of their life.”
The Republican-led inquiry discovered proof that practically $30 million had been funneled into Biden household accounts from Hunter’s overseas enterprise ventures throughout and after his father’s vice presidency.
The DC courtroom submitting got here simply days earlier than the forty sixth president’s son introduced he would embark on a multi-city tour within the American southwest with Andrew Callaghan, who hosts YouTube collection Channel 5, difficult Trump’s sons to battle him in a “cage match.”
“He requested me to come back out on the ‘Channel 5’ Carnival Tour on the finish of the month,” Hunter stated of Callaghan in an X submit. “I believe he’s attempting to prepare a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr.”
“I informed him I’d do it — 100% in — if he can pull it off. And if he can’t, I’m nonetheless coming,” he added.
It’s unclear if Hunter shall be paid for his cagefighting or appearances on the occasions in Phoenix, San Diego and Albuquerque.
Over the Easter vacation, the ex-first household had posed for a photograph later printed on Ashley Biden’s Instagram, exhibiting them in California.
Previous courtroom filings in different instances present that the pardoned first son’s internet price has plummeted since his father, former President Joe Biden, left the White Home.
In March 2025 courtroom papers, the novice artist stated he had bought only one summary work from his catalogue for $36,000 since December 2023. Gross sales of his 2021 memoir “Stunning Issues” additionally fell from 3,200 copies to simply 1,100 copies over two six-month intervals in the identical 12 months.
A $3 million rental dwelling Hunter’s household had in Malibu turned “unlivable” after the Palisades Fireplace wildfires, he claimed in courtroom papers that very same month, although pictures present it seemingly unscathed although properties round it burned to the bottom.
Hunter had taken in virtually $1.5 million following dad’s election in 2020 and within the early years of the Biden administration.
It’s unclear if he’s ever acquired funds for his appearances on podcasts like Callaghan’s, the place in July 2025 he went on a foul-mouthed rant towards Hollywood star George Clooney and others who disparaged his father’s 2024 re-election effort.
For his half, the previous president, repped by Artistic Artists Company, had been pursuing all-expenses-paid talking engagements and asking for as much as $300,000 per occasion — however is “having hassle reserving gigs,” a supply informed The Publish in April 2025.
Coburn declined to remark. Lowell didn’t reply to a request for remark.
