Hunter Biden hires Jussie Smollett attorney who claimed the actor's black attackers were 'wearing white make-up'
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- Hunter Biden has hired attorney Tina Glandian who represented Jussie Smollett
- He enlisted her help as a defamation case against Fox News is 'imminent'
- Glandian previously explained why Smollett said the black attackers were white
Hunter Biden has hired an attorney who previously represented Jussie Smollett and claimed the actor's staged attack was done by black men wearing white make-up.
The president's son, 54, has enlisted the help of Tina Glandian as a defamation case against Fox News is reportedly 'imminent'.
Glandian is a partner at celebrity attorney Mark Geragos‘ firm and she has previously represented Smollett, Chris Brown, Kesha and even controversial figure Andrew Tate.
The New York based attorney previously offered an explanation as to why her Empire actor client tried to say the black men he hired to carry out a fake attack were white.
She has insisted a potential lawsuit against Fox News would focus on programming that 'relentlessly attacked' Biden based on false allegations from indicted former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov.
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A letter by Glandian states that she and Geragos are looking at bringing a lawsuit which alleges 'conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him.'
She believes Fox News made a profit on the 'conspiracy of disinformation' about her client.
The attorney claims the network should at least retract and/or correct its stories. However Biden's lawyers want Fox News' audience to know the hosts 'have been sharing' Smirnov’s 'debunked allegation'.
Glandian previously insisted her client Smollett did not recognize brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo when they were accused of attacking him on January 29, 2019.
At the time, she said the actor 'found it hard to believe' because he had told police that he could make out one had 'pale or white skin' around his eyes beneath the ski mask he was wearing.
During the police probe into the incident, Chicago cops concluded that Smollett had hired two brothers to carry out the crime.
Smollett was convicted on five counts of disorderly conduct, sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months felony probation and $120,106 in restitution to the City of Chicago and a $25,000 fine.
However, he only served six days in jail before he was released on March 16, 2022 when his lawyer's filed an appeal and Appellate Court of Cook County denied it.
During the original sentencing hearing Smollett shouted at the judge that he was innocent, warning that he was not suicidal and if he died in custody it was somebody else, and not him, who would have taken his life.
Glandian has represented high-profile clients which include Kesha, Chris Brown, Mike Tyson and Andrew Tate.
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Her case list includes the prosecution of claims against Eva Longoria by her former business partners in a business dispute in Las Vegas and the defense of bribery charges against Navnoor Kang in the Southern District of New York.
She studied Communication at the University of California in San Diego in 2003 before she earned her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in 2007.
Glandian joined Geragos in 2005 and after working in the Los Angeles office she opened the firm's New York office which she leads.
While away from law, she is a licensed California real estate broker.
A spokesman for Fox News said: 'Hunter Biden’s lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News’ constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client.
'Mr. Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of investigations by both the Department of Justice and Congress, has been indicted by two different US Attorney’s Offices in California and Delaware, and has admitted to multiple incidents of wrongdoing.
'Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered these highly publicized events as well as the subsequent indictment of an FBI informant who was the source of certain claims made about Mr. Biden.'
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