Murdoch-owned US channel claims suit is an ‘entirely politically motivated lawsuit devoid of merit’
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Hunter Biden is suing Fox News for airing naked images of him, claiming it amounted to “revenge porn”.
The channel’s series The Trial of Hunter Biden was made up of six episodes published in 2022 on Fox Nation, the conservative broadcaster’s online platform owned by the family of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
A dramatised version of a criminal trial, the series contained a warning that the proceedings were fiction, depicting the first son being prosecuted for graft – accusations that have been made for years by Donald Trump supporters who point to Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine and China.
The accusations have never led to legal action.
But the series integrates real images of Biden, “depicting him in the nude, depicting an unclothed or exposed intimate part of him, as well as engaged in sex acts”, the complaint alleges.
“Fox published and disseminated these intimate images to its vast audience of millions as part of an entertainment programme in order to humiliate, harass, annoy and alarm Mr Biden and to tarnish his reputation.”
The images originated from a laptop that Hunter Biden dropped off at a computer repair shop, but which he never collected.
Its contents have been circulating ever since, and are the subject of widesp
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