WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden is crying poor once more over authorized money owed he incurred from retaining high-powered legal professional Abbe Lowell in his federal tax and gun crime case — even because the troubled former first son introduced a US-based tour with a well-liked 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 court docket in June 2025 for breach of contract over the unpaid charges — which Biden stated as lately as final December racked as much as as a lot as $15 million for all his authorized woes lately.
However as of March 2026, Biden and the regulation agency have been unable to agree on the full quantity he owes, prompting a request to the decide to settle the dispute centered on the manufacturing of emails and different data memorializing what “portion” of the sum has gone unpaid.
“Neither we nor our consumer know the last word quantity owed,” Biden’s new lawyer Barry Coburn acknowledged in court docket papers filed Monday in DC Superior Courtroom, because the deadline to supply discovery paperwork was scheduled for April 9.
“Our consumer is timpecunious. We’ve not engaged a billing guide or forensic accountant to assessment the payments, simply as we now have not engaged an e-discovery vendor. We can not afford it,” Coburn wrote, including that the Biden scion now “lives overseas” and is unable to even “pay his present legal professionals.”
He, his South African-born spouse Melissa Cohen Biden, and son Beau had been noticed in Cape City in March and Could 2025 with a Secret Service element in tow, although it’s unclear if he has a everlasting tackle now within the nation or elsewhere.
Hunter was beforehand delinquent on as much as $6.5 million he owed one other one in all his former legal professionals, Kevin Morris, who earned a fortune representing the creators of the tv sequence “South Park.”
Morris testified to Home committees probing the then-first son’s funds in January 2024 that Hunter may have completed “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 almost $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 court docket 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 sequence Channel 5, difficult Trump’s sons to battle him in a “cage match.”
“He requested me to return out on the ‘Channel 5’ Carnival Tour on the finish of the month,” Hunter stated of Callaghan in an X publish. “I feel he’s attempting to prepare a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr.”
“I advised 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 revealed on Ashley Biden’s Instagram, exhibiting them in California.
Previous court docket filings in different circumstances present that the pardoned first son’s web price has plummeted since his father, former President Joe Biden, left the White Home.
In March 2025 court docket 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 “Lovely Issues” additionally fell from 3,200 copies to only 1,100 copies over two six-month intervals in the identical yr.
A $3 million rental residence Hunter’s household had in Malibu turned “unlivable” after the Palisades Fireplace wildfires, he claimed in court docket papers that very same month, although photographs present it seemingly unscathed though houses 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 Inventive Artists Company, had been pursuing all-expenses-paid talking engagements and asking for as much as $300,000 per occasion — however is “having bother reserving gigs,” a supply advised The Submit in April 2025.
Coburn declined to remark. Lowell didn’t reply to a request for remark.
