Hunter Biden dropped a bid of his own Sunday.
Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has dropped his lawsuit against Fox News. Biden dropped a filing of voluntary dismissal Sunday, just hours after his father released a statement dropping out of the 2024 presidential race (Fox, of course, was among the TV news channels scrambling to cover President Biden’s decision).
According to the filing, Biden dismissed the suit against Fox without prejudice, meaning that he could choose to re-file charges later on.
Biden had sued Fox earlier this month over a fictionalized miniseries on the Fox Nation streaming service called The Trial of Hunter Biden. Fox had pulled the miniseries back in April.
Biden alleged the series “intentionally manipulates the facts” and “distorts the truth” while displaying images of him in the nude and engaged in sex acts. He brought claims for a violation of a New York’s so-called revenge porn law, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unjust enrichment.
A Fox News spokesperson referred The Hollywood Reporter to the channel’s original statement in response to the suit.
“This entirely politically motivated lawsuit is devoid of merit,” the statement said. “The core complaint stems from a 2022 streaming program that Mr. Biden did not complain about until sending a letter in late April 2024. The program was removed within days of the letter, in an abundance of caution, but Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of multiple investigations and is now a convicted felon.”
Biden was convicted last month on federal gun charges, though he’s never been charged for crimes connected with bribery or foreign lobbying at the center of Fox’s series.