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Hunter Biden’s $3M house appears untouched — while every neighboring home was burned to ash — after he called it ‘unlivable’ due to LA wildfires

Writer: WGONWGON

The $3 million rental home that Hunter Biden claims is “unlivable” after the California wildfires — leaving him broke and unable to continue a 2023 lawsuit he filed — appears unscathed even though all the homes around it burned to the ground.


The former first son, 55, was living in the four-bedroom Malibu home with his wife, Melissa, and their son, Beau, when the raging Palisades Fire tore through his neighborhood in January, sources confirmed to The Post.


The wildfire made the property “unlivable for an extended period of time,” Hunter claimed in a motion filed in federal court in California on Wednesday.


“Like many others in that situation, [Hunter] has had difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live as well as finding it difficult to earn a living,” according to the filing.


Current photos show the house still standing, while the rest of the neighborhood was razed by the fires that ripped throughout Los Angeles for much of January.


It was not immediately clear whether the home sustained damage that is not visible — such as from the heat and smoke of the nearby fires.


Hunter laid bare his financial woes in the court papers as he urged a judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he filed against Garrett Ziegler, a former Trump White House aide, because he’s “millions of dollars” in debt.


He claimed the debt, as well as dwindling sales of his artwork and memoir, prevented him from “litigating this case.” 

“So, [Hunter] must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family’s living expenses as opposed to this litigation,” the court papers charged.


He argued his dire financial situation was only “exacerbated” by the deadly fires.


At the time of the fires, then-President Joe Biden said he wasn’t sure if his son’s property had survived the inferno.


“It’s astounding what’s happening,” Biden said during a Jan. 8. briefing on the blazes.


“There’s only one piece of good news. My son lives out here and his wife. They got a notification yesterday their home was probably burned to the ground. Today, it appears that may be still standing but I’m not sure.”


Hunter has rented at least three properties in California since 2021.


In 2021, he and his wife had rented a property in Venice Beach overlooking the Grand Canal — but the couple was accused of leaving the $25,000-per-month home in a state of disarray and allegedly stiffed the owner on rent.


In an interview with electronic musician Moby last year, the Biden scion — who still enjoys Secret Service protection — baselessly accused The Post of having “doxxed” his Malibu pad in “aerial photographs” that were “published on the front page.”


“The picture of the house, the address, aerial view of the house, the inside of the house from the realtor’s, you know, online offering of the house, description of where you could stand to see through the floor-to-ceiling windows on the road that we lived on,” he told the “Natural Blues” hitmaker.


Hunter also claimed that “half a dozen to a dozen people, mostly men, in MAGA hats with bullhorns” advanced on his home within 36 hours and started “pounding at the front door” with his seven-months-pregnant wife inside alone.


“We moved in the middle of the night,” he claimed.


An archival review revealed The Post never published a photo of his home on the front page and contemporaneous reports turned up neither the MAGA protest nor the publication of the address.


Hunter’s lawyer declined to comment.

 
 
 

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