{"id":5490,"date":"2026-04-16T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:13:10","slug":"hunter-biden-hiding-out-from-20m-debts-at-luxury-california-estate-not-south-africa-its-a-ruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden hiding out from $20m debts at luxury California estate, not South Africa: &#8216;It&#8217;s a ruse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hunter Biden is hiding from his creditors in California, avoiding paying over $20 million he owes various people, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Although a lawyer for the former first son claimed he is \u201cliving abroad\u201d in South Africa, where his wife Melissa Cohen hails from, he\u2019s actually holed up at luxury 8,000-acre estate in Santa Ynez, two hours north of Los Angeles, sources claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been telling everyone that he is living in South Africa because he has no money, but it\u2019s a ruse, to show that he is broke and can\u2019t pay his bills,\u201d said a source close to the Biden family.<\/p>\n<p>Those bills are considerable \u2014 with around $15 to $17 million owed to a high-powered legal team in DC, $5 million to his former pal and \u201cSugar Brother,\u201d Kevin Morris and $1 million to his former art dealer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hunter Biden with politician Michael Tubbs posing by one of his artworks at one of his gallery openings. <span class=\"credit\">Michael Tubbs\/Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s former home, a rental in Malibu, was damaged during the California wildfires last year, and remains \u201cunlivable,\u201d sources told The Post. He and Cohen were spotted in Cape Town at various points over 2025 and as recently as March this year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>However, at Easter on April 5 he was pictured at the compound of Iranian-born entrepreneur Joe Kiani, who hosted the whole Biden clan, including his ex-president father, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Medical tech CEO Kiani was a big supporter of Biden Snr. and his 8,000-acre estate is where he decamped in June 2024 after dropping out of the presidential race, as well as after he left the White House in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent filing, Hunter\u2019s lawyer Barry Coburn said he now \u201clives abroad\u201d\u00a0and had no money to pay his debts, in a response to DC law firm Winston &amp; Strawn which he hired \u201cto represent him in several complex matters,\u201d including federal gun and tax indictments,\u201d according to court filings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Biden clan spent Easter at the lavish estate of Joe and Sarah Kiani in Santa Ynez, California. The Kianis own an 8,000 acre ranch, two hours north of Los Angeles. <span class=\"credit\">Ashley Biden\/ Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hunter Biden, pictued in Cape Town, told friends that he was moving to his wife\u2019s native country in order to save money. But sources told The Post he is continuing to live in California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In court papers released this week, Winston &amp; Strawn demanded to see the pardoned former\u00a0first son\u2019s correspondence with friends or Democratic Party donors\u00a0as part of a breach of contract case meant\u00a0to recoup unpaid legal debts. By Hunter\u2019s own admission he owes them between $15 million\u00a0and $17 million.<\/p>\n<p>He also owes more than $5 million to Morris, a Hollywood lawyer and novelist, who completed shooting a documentary on Biden but has not yet released it, according to a source.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hunter Biden, second wife Melissa and their son Beau are living at a luxe ranch outside Los Angeles, sources said. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201csugar brother\u201d loaned Biden the cash to pay off taxes and other personal debts, and is reworking the documentary, which he has been filming for years. The film focuses on Biden\u2019s recovery from drug addiction and his foray into the art world, according to a source.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s New York City-based gallerist, who cut ties with \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d author and is no longer representing him, is owed $1 million from the scandal-scarred former first son, a source told The Post.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe and Sarah Kiani, billionaire donors to Joe Biden\u2019s political campaigns, have long hosted the family at their lavish estate in California. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Georges Berges refused comment about the debt this week. A source told The Post those who loaned Biden cash did so because he promised he would repay them with assets that he allegedly has abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden did not return a request for comment Wednesday, and Coburn refused comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Some of the collectors who invested in Hunter Biden\u2019s artwork are looking to unload it on the secondary market, says his former gallerist Georges Berges. <span class=\"credit\">Daniel William McKnight<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hollywood attorney and novelist Kevin Morris is revising a documentary he filmed about Hunter Biden. He claims that Biden owes him more than $5 million, according to sources. <span class=\"credit\">Saquan Stimpson \u2013 CNP for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden was between 2014 and 2016 infamously being paid $83,000 a month by Ukrainian energy company Burisma, according to invoices on his laptop computer obtained by The Post. Shortly after that time is when he life started careening off the rails and he started smoking a lot of crack and other drugs, according to his memoir.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Biden is set to join \u00a0a traveling carnival where he is billed as \u201cthe CEO of laptops,\u201d a reference to the computer abandoned at a Delaware repair shop and first revealed by The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Channel Five Carnival and Talent Show features stops in Phoenix, Albuquerque and will be moderated by Hunter Biden, according to social media ads.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, his ex-gallerist is hoping to shift some of the art pieces he started making as part of his sobriety journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have secondary market work for resale,\u201d said his former SoHo-based art dealer Berges, adding that the resale value of the artwork from former collectors could fetch up to $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, another longtime New York City gallery owner told The Post the value of Hunter Biden\u2019s art has 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