Hunter Biden is hiding from his creditors in California, avoiding paying over $20 million he owes various people, The Post has learned.
Although a lawyer for the former first son claimed he is “living abroad” in South Africa, where his wife Melissa Cohen hails from, he’s actually holed up at luxury 8,000-acre estate in Santa Ynez, two hours north of Los Angeles, sources claim.
“He’s been telling everyone that he is living in South Africa because he has no money, but it’s a ruse, to show that he is broke and can’t pay his bills,” said a source close to the Biden family.
Those bills are considerable — with around $15 to $17 million owed to a high-powered legal team in DC, $5 million to his former pal and “Sugar Brother,” Kevin Morris and $1 million to his former art dealer.
Hunter’s former home, a rental in Malibu, was damaged during the California wildfires last year, and remains “unlivable,” sources told The Post. He and Cohen were spotted in Cape Town at various points over 2025 and as recently as March this year.
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.
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.
In a recent filing, Hunter’s lawyer Barry Coburn said he now “lives abroad” and had no money to pay his debts, in a response to DC law firm Winston & Strawn which he hired “to represent him in several complex matters,” including federal gun and tax indictments,” according to court filings.
In court papers released this week, Winston & Strawn demanded to see the pardoned former first son’s correspondence with friends or Democratic Party donors as part of a breach of contract case meant to recoup unpaid legal debts. By Hunter’s own admission he owes them between $15 million and $17 million.
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.
The “sugar brother” 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’s recovery from drug addiction and his foray into the art world, according to a source.
Hunter’s New York City-based gallerist, who cut ties with “Beautiful Things” author and is no longer representing him, is owed $1 million from the scandal-scarred former first son, a source told The Post.
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.
Hunter Biden did not return a request for comment Wednesday, and Coburn refused comment.
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.
In the meantime, Biden is set to join a traveling carnival where he is billed as “the CEO of laptops,” a reference to the computer abandoned at a Delaware repair shop and first revealed by The Post.
The Channel Five Carnival and Talent Show features stops in Phoenix, Albuquerque and will be moderated by Hunter Biden, according to social media ads.
In the meantime, his ex-gallerist is hoping to shift some of the art pieces he started making as part of his sobriety journey.
“I still have secondary market work for resale,” 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.
However, another longtime New York City gallery owner told The Post the value of Hunter Biden’s art has diminished.
“His value was primarily based on his celebrity and his position as the president’s son as opposed to his artistic achievement,” said Eli Klein, a gallerist and publisher of art books.
“I’ve never seen any of his work on the secondary market, and I don’t know who the person is who is going to pay $100,000 for a Hunter Biden artwork.”
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