Lawyers did not say why they had withdrawn the case.
Hunter Biden, 54, a former lobbyist who has struggled with substance abuse, has faced a welter of legal problems. Last month, he was found guilty in Delaware of lying about his drug use to buy a gun; in September he will face trial on tax evasion charges in California.
But “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” a six-part miniseries released on the Fox Nation streaming platform in 2022, portrayed an imagined courtroom prosecution of Biden on charges of violating bribery and foreign-agent laws that he has never faced in real life.
The show relies partially on documents found on a laptop that Biden is said to have abandoned at a Wilmington, Del., repair shop in 2019 — he has maintained that some may have been hacked or stolen from him instead — including some intimate images.
In his suit filed July 1, Biden accused Fox of unlawfully enriching itself by using his image, inflicting emotional distress and illegally publishing his intimate photos in violation of New York’s “revenge porn” law.
Fox said at the time that it had removed the miniseries from its streaming platform after receiving a legal warning from Biden’s lawyers in April. But it otherwise defended the production and said the lawsuit was without merit.
“Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of multiple investigations and is now a convicted felon,” the company statement said. “Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered the newsworthy events of Mr. Biden’s own making.”
Fox representatives did not comment further on the suit’s withdrawal.
