Staff Reports
Nearly 200 art pieces belonging to Hunter Biden met an unfortunate fate in the wildfires that swept through Los Angeles. This collection, reportedly valued in the millions, was stored near the abode of Hunter’s attorney, Kevin Morris, where these masterpieces were expected to fetch prices soaring as high as $500,000 each. Apparently, even wildfires have their limits when it comes to discerning good taste—or lack thereof.
Morris, who seems to have found himself at the center of Hunter’s financial dramas, has been doing more than just keeping art out of the flames. He took over a ten percent stake in a Chinese state-backed fund, BHR Partners, and has generously covered Hunter’s IRS debts, on top of lending him a staggering $4.9 million for luxuries like housing, car payments, and those mounting legal bills. Clearly, he’s not just any lawyer; he’s a one-man financial rescue squad for the first son.
JUST IN: The art world has suffered a tremendous loss.
200 artworks by Hunter Biden allegedly worth "millions of dollars" were reportedly destroyed by the L.A. fires.
Money launderers around the world are heartbroken pic.twitter.com/0CPkSlJLnr
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 15, 2025
While Hunter’s art collection was being roasted, it appears Morris managed to dodge the flames. He resides in a mansion that somehow survived the disaster, an ironic twist considering how quickly other properties were reduced to ash. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, perhaps overwhelmed with fatherly concern, offered a glimmer of hope, asserting that Hunter’s Malibu home might have dodged the fireball entirely. It almost sounds like a plot twist in a poorly written sitcom: the son’s artistic ambitions in peril while the father remains blissfully optimistic.
The mounting troubles with Hunter Biden’s finances weave an even more complicated narrative when accounts of his former landlord come into play. Shaun Maguire, a venture capitalist, claims he is still owed more than $300,000 in unpaid rent for 2019 to 2020. Rather than settling this debt through conventional means, Maguire proposed a unique settlement involving a collection of “art” made from his own feces. Only in the Biden universe could a creative approach to debt involve a little “poop art”—who knew modern art had such a colorful definition?
In any case, the burning question remains: how much value does one put on a collection of artworks that reflects the chaotic saga of Hunter Biden’s life? With prices averaging around $85,000 and an unfortunate venue in the midst of raging wildfires, it raises the prospect of whether these pieces were more of a financial smokescreen than actual masterpieces. America watches as the Biden family’s saga unfolds—proof that in politics as in art, sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just a pile of ashes.
