Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series. An attorney for the president's son filed a voluntary dismissal notice on Sunday in federal court in New York City, three weeks after the lawsuit was filed, the reports. It wasn't clear why the lawsuit was dropped.
The lawsuit involved images shown in which debuted on Fox Nation in 2022. The series features a "mock trial" of Hunter Biden on charges that he hasn't faced and includes images of him in the nude and engaged in sex acts, according to the lawsuit. The complaint claimed that the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law.
Hunter Biden accused Fox News in a lawsuit of unlawfully publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series, the reports. The president's son filed the lawsuit Sunday in state court in Manhattan over images in , which debuted on the streaming service Fox Nation in 2022. The series features a "mock trial" of Hunter Biden on charges he has not faced (bribery and improper financial dealings with foreign governments), and it includes images of Biden in the nude and engaged in sex acts, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law. A Fox News spokesperson called it an "entirely politically motivated lawsuit" that was "devoid of merit" in an emailed statem.