Reports indicate Hunter Biden's stored artwork, Malibu rental home destroyed by wildfire

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 January 16, 2025

After Hunter Biden's questionable foreign business dealings were exposed by media reports, congressional inquiries, and federal investigations, the president's son turned to dubiously priced artwork to ostensibly make a living over the past few years.

Unfortunately for him, much of his artwork that was in storage and purportedly worth "millions" was recently destroyed in one of California's devastating wildfires, according to the New York Post.

The news about the loss of Hunter's paintings comes just days after it was reported that the rental home he lived at in Malibu had similarly been burned to the ground by one of the raging infernos.

Hunter's stored artwork destroyed by wildfire

The Post reported on Wednesday that an unnamed source close to the Biden family revealed that a storage unit that contained around 200 pieces of Hunter Biden's unsold artwork, said to be worth "millions of dollars," was destroyed during the recent Palisades fire in the Los Angeles area.

The storage unit was near the still-standing Pacific Palisades home of Hunter's benefactor, Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who has loaned the first son upwards of $5 million, helped pay off his tax debts and legal fees, purchased nearly $1 million worth of Hunter's art, and has financed a documentary about the president's troubled son.

Neither Morris nor an attorney for Hunter responded to queries from the Post about the reported loss of his artwork, but the outlet did get in touch with Biden's former art dealer, Soho gallerist Georges Berges, who previously displayed and helped sell some of Hunter's paintings but cut ties with him last year.

"I don’t know what’s happening with the art," Berges said when asked about Hunter's artwork being destroyed by the wildfire. "I have some of his work on canvas, some metal pieces at the gallery."

As to the reported value of the lost art, Berges confirmed that some of Hunter's paintings have sold for as much as $500,000 but admitted that most of his art had an average value of around $85,000.

Hunter's rented home in Malibu destroyed

Meanwhile, less than a week earlier, the Daily Mail reported that Hunter Biden's rental home in Malibu had been completely destroyed by the same Palisades fire that ravaged so much of the L.A. area.

Photos revealed that only a pair of brick chimneys and charred remains were all that was left of the three-bed, three-bath home valued at roughly $4 million, and for which Hunter -- or somebody else -- paid $15,800 in monthly rent.

That home included a special guest studio that Hunter reportedly used to create and store some of his artwork, all of which is now gone from the fire.

Also destroyed was a nearby guest house used by Hunter's Secret Service detail that cost taxpayers an estimated $16,000 per month.

Biden incorrectly said Hunter's home was "still standing"

There was some initial dispute about whether Hunter Biden's Malibu rental home had been destroyed, as President Joe Biden, while addressing reporters in Santa Monica during a briefing with Governor Gavin Newsom and others about the Palisades fire, incorrectly suggested that the home had somehow survived the destructive blaze.

"There’s only one piece of good news," Biden said last week. "My son lives out here and his wife. Their -- they got a notification yesterday that their home is probably burned to the ground. Today, it appears that maybe it’s still standing. We’re not sure."

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