Hunter Biden says he’s just a starving artist now that his dad’s not in the White House anymore.
The former first son claimed he’s millions of dollars in debt, nobody’s buying his art and he lost his house to the Los Angeles wildfires in a bombshell legal filing in which he asked a a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped on a former Trump White House aide.
The embattled former first son, 55, said he has managed to sell just one piece of art — his catalogue is mostly colorful abstract paintings that have been compared to “hotel art” — since December 2023. He raked in nearly $1.5 million during dad Joe Biden’s campaign and the early years of his administration.
“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000,” Hunter Biden’s attorneys said as they laid bare his apparent financial woes.
Lawyers also noted that sales of his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” also plunged — from 3,200 copies over six months in mid-2023, to just 1,100 copies in the following six months.
Biden said he’s shocked — shocked — that interest in his work has evaporated when his dad’s political fortunes turned.
“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” he said.
Biden — who got a sweeping pardon from Joe in the waning days of his father’s administration — is self-taught and started painting while in recovery for drug addiction.
All the financial hardship is preventing him from litigating the case against Garrett Ziegler, according to a motion filed in federal court in California on Wednesday.
Biden’s financial troubles were only “exacerbated” by the Pacific Palisades wildfires in January that left the Malibu mansion that he is renting “unlivable,” the filing states.
“Like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live,” he claimed in the motion.
“While I was aware that my financial position had significantly deteriorated over time, it was not until the past month that I realized I had to take drastic actions to alleviate this situation.”
A trove of his artworks that were in storage near the Pacific Palisades home of Hunter’s Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris were destroyed in the blazes, a source told The Post at the time.
His attorneys added: “[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range.”
Hunter first filed the suit against Ziegler back in 2023 for allegedly illegally accessing and circulating the embarrassing contents of his infamous laptop on Ziegler’s right-wing nonprofit website Marco Polo.
Ziegler, who worked as an aide to President Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, during the last administration, has published much of Hunter’s laptop data on his site in the years since The Post first exposed the device in 2020.
The suit accuses Ziegler and others of breaching computer fraud and data laws by accessing “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” from the laptop.
In the wake of Hunter’s latest motion, Ziegler hit back, telling The Post in a blistering statement that the ex-first son’s cash pool was “drying up” now that his dad wasn’t in the White House.
“Hunter wants to cry uncle. We are OPPOSING that. We want our attorney’s fees to be paid, for Hunter to cease lying about us and me, and just generally to shut the f–k up,” Ziegler said.
“This is an abuse of the legal system. It can’t stand. Our tiny nonprofit had to scrape together legal fees for nearly 2 years to deal with this Peter Pan like manchild.”
Separately, Hunter has also been tied up in litigation with former Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac over his laptop data getting leaked in the first place.
Hunter noted in the latest filing that he was assessing each of his pending suits on a “case-by-case basis to allocate my limited resources.”
