Hunter Biden moved overseas, attorney reveals in court filing
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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden has reportedly moved out of the United States amid mounting authorized points, only a yr after his father left the presidential workplace in 2025.
His attorney, Barry Coburn, disclosed Biden’s present residing state of affairs in an April 6 court filing tied to a civil lawsuit over unpaid authorized charges.
“Mr. Biden lives abroad,” the doc said. “He cannot pay his current lawyers.”
It stays unclear the place the primary son of former President Joe Biden has relocated. However, the 56-year-old beforehand indicated late final yr that he had been visiting Cape Town in South Africa, the place his spouse, Melissa Cohen Biden, is initially from.
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Former President Joe Biden, left, and his son, Hunter Biden, stand side-by-side. (Getty Images)
“When all of the political and personal stuff came to an end in the last six months, I had always promised that we would spend some time over here,” Biden said throughout a November appearance on The Wide Awake Podcast, primarily based in South Africa. “We’re trying to be between Cape Town and the States, go back and forth.”
“I’ve fallen madly in love with Cape Town,” he added. “You guys don’t know how good you have it here. It’s the most beautiful city in the world.”

First girl Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, joined by his spouse Melissa Cohen Biden, depart the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 11, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal legal gun fees he confronted. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Most just lately, Biden was photographed together with his household — alongside his dad and mom, Joe Biden and Jill Biden — in Santa Ynez, California, over Easter weekend, in accordance with photographs shared on Instagram final week by his sister, Ashley Biden.
The court doc disclosing Biden’s present residing state of affairs was submitted in a Washington, DC, civil court by Winston & Strawn LLP, which beforehand represented him in a sequence of legal circumstances that drew intense nationwide scrutiny through the years, together with a legal gun trial in Delaware and a tax crimes prosecution in California.
According to the filings, the previous first son has not paid a “substantial portion” of the charges owed to his authorized workforce. He reportedly has restricted monetary sources and likewise can’t afford to rent specialised professionals to help with the lawsuit, citing cases that Biden manually “hand-searched” his personal emails to find related paperwork relatively than counting on outdoors sources.
Biden additionally famous throughout his podcast look that he’s dealing with “$17 million in debt … as it relates to my legal fees.”

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has reportedly left the nation, in accordance with an April 6 court filing. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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In summer season 2024, Biden was discovered responsible of a number of legal offenses, together with the unlawful buy of a firearm in 2018. Prosecutors proved he lied on a federal kind by stating he was not utilizing unlawful medication at a time when he was battling a crack cocaine dependancy.
He additionally pleaded responsible to 9 federal tax fees, together with three felonies, in reference to a scheme to evade $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.
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He was finally pardoned by his father on all federal fees in December 2024.
