REVEALED: Hunter Biden’s Tony-winning, bong-smoking Hollywood lawyer dubbed his ‘sugar brother’ for paying off his $2.8m tax invoice and who now bankrolls the First Son’s lavish way of life

Hunter Biden‘s bong-smoking Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris has flown to Serbia to spy on a movie manufacturing concerning the president’s son and paid a $2.8million tax bill on his behalf.

However earlier than he turned publicly entangled in Hunter’s seedy affairs, Morris, 60, was a Hollywood lawyer identified for operating a prestigious regulation agency that took on among the trade’s most high-profile circumstances and shoppers.

He famously negotiated a pair of contracts totaling $1.4billion for the creators of the satirical cartoon South Park, whom he had met on the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.

Their friendship blossomed and he later received a Tony award as a producer of their blockbuster musical The E-book of Mormon.

All through his profession, Morris has represented varied Hollywood elites, together with Courtney Cox and Mathew McConaughey, in addition to TV govt Doug Herzog and producer Tom Lassally.

‘I haven’t got numerous lawyer wants,’ Cox told Variety throughout a launch social gathering for one of many lawyer’s ebook in 2014, ‘But when I do, I flip to Kevin.’

This weekend the lawyer introduced on to mitigate the controversy round Hunter heightened it when, throughout a go to from the president’s son, he was seen smoking from a bong in public view

Kevin Morris (left) has represented varied Hollywood elites, together with Courtney Cox (with whom he’s pictured in 2014) and Mathew McConaughey, in addition to TV govt Doug Herzog and producer Tom Lassally

Pictured is Anne Garefino, Doug Herzog, writer and lawyer Kevin Morris and Trey Parker in 2014

Although Morris went on to make his fortunes and popularity in West Coast leisure regulation, he grew up outdoors Philadelphia and was raised by a refinery employee and a faculty secretary, in keeping with a New York Times profile from 2007.

After learning at Cornell after which going via regulation college at NYU, he moved west across the Nineties, the place he began mingling with leisure personalities, a few of whom went on to change into large names.

McConaughey spoke flatteringly of Morris within the 2007 profile, which introduced the lawyer as a person ‘rewriting Hollywood’s guidelines’. 

‘He nonetheless reads the scripts I’m going do earlier than I’m going do them,’ McConaughey advised The Instances.

‘He got here to me to do U-571. I would learn it and did not wish to do it, however he got here out to the seashore and referred to as me to the aspect, pinned me up towards a wall and stated, “Learn this factor once more.”‘

Later Morris based the agency Morris Yorn Barnes Levine with Kevin Yorn, who was then an assistant district lawyer for LA County.

Their agency represented the likes of McConaughey, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres and Scarlett Johansson, and helped arrange FunnyorDie.com, a comedy website created by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

Morris can be a broadcast writer, having launched a group of brief tales entitled ‘White Man’s Issues’ in 2015, adopted by a novel entitled ‘All Joe Knight’ in 2016. 

Anne Garefino, Kevin Morris, James Frey and Matt Stone attend certainly one of Morris’ ebook events in June 2014

After learning at Cornell after which going via regulation college at NYU, Morris moved west across the Nineties. He’s pictured at certainly one of his ebook launches in 2014

Kevin Morris and Jennifer Howell attend the sixty fifth Annual Peabody Awards in New York Metropolis on June 5

However putting him on the general public radar most just lately are his shut ties to the president’s son, for whom he paid off an almost $3million tax invoice, incomes him the title of ‘sugar brother’.

Although he had not beforehand publicly disclosed his relationship to the Biden household, Morris’ workplace advised a CBS reporter the Hollywood lawyer is crafting a ‘authorized and media technique’ for Hunter amid ongoing authorized woes.

One of many legal fees towards Hunter is mendacity on a 2018 federal gun form that he was not a bootleg drug consumer, when he admitted in his memoir to being a crack addict.

He was dubbed Hunter’s ‘sugar brother’ after he agreed to mortgage the First Son a reported $2.8million to repay his tax money owed and joined his authorized workforce amid legal and congressional investigations. 

Morris can be waging battles on behalf of the First Son, suing right-wing nonprofit Marco Polo and its founder, former Donald Trump White Home staffer Garrett Ziegler, who has been investigating the Biden household.

The lawyer accused Ziegler and his nonprofit of harassment, invasion of privateness and ‘legal impersonation’ in courtroom paperwork filed in Los Angeles.

In textual content messages revealed final yr by DailyMail.com, Morris appeared to lose his cool with a Marco Polo operative who posed as a possible ally prepared to assist Hunter’s authorized workforce – calling the trickster a ‘f***ing moron,’ including: ‘I’ll take all of your cash’ and ‘I do know the place you reside’.

In textual content messages revealed final yr by DailyMail.com, Morris appeared to lose his cool with a Marco Polo operative who posed as a possible ally prepared to assist Hunter’s authorized workforce – calling the trickster a ‘f***ing moron,’ including: ‘I’ll take all of your cash’ and ‘I do know the place you reside’ 

Laurence Fox (pictured) is enjoying Hunter Biden within the upcoming movie My Son Hunter, which was filmed in Serbia and is in post-production

Morris additionally allegedly dabbled in clandestine methods to get data out of Hunter’s enemies.

The lawyer was accused of lying to get on to the film set of My Son Hunter, a film designed to point out Biden within the worst doable gentle with tales of his drug use, partying and allegedly corrupt enterprise offers.

Morris flew on a non-public airplane to Serbia the place the film was being filmed claiming he needed to interview the producers for a documentary he claimed to be making about Biden’s corruption, My Son Hunter producer Phelim McAleer stated.

McAleer claimed on the time: ‘Now that I do know of his illustration of Hunter Biden, his questions whereas they had been filming abruptly make numerous sense. I believed he was simply making a documentary however now it seems he was deceptively spying for his shopper Hunter Biden.’

Morris and two colleagues had been allegedly given full entry to the set for a number of days taping hours of footage for the supposed documentary.

The filmmakers declare that Morris was significantly within the contents of the film – together with what sources that they had for his or her data and what they knew about how Hunter’s laptop computer got here into the palms of the media.

Hunter’s go to to Morris got here after it was revealed {that a} Ukrainian oligarch bribed Joe Biden and Hunter with $10 million

It isn’t clear what substance was in Morris’s bong, and leisure marijuana use is authorized in California

Morris was additionally reportedly behind makes an attempt final yr to push pleasant media organizations to query the provenance of Hunter’s deserted laptop computer – regardless of DailyMail.com’s authentication of the laborious drive utilizing high cyber forensics consultants in early 2021, and later verification by the Washington Submit, New York Instances and CBS.

The extra proactive authorized technique reportedly prompted anxiousness on the White Home, sources advised CNN, with the President’s aides preferring Hunter to remain quiet and lay low.

And most just lately this weekend, the lawyer introduced on to mitigate the controversy round Hunter heightened it when, throughout a go to from the president’s son, he was seen smoking from a bong.

Whereas Hunter was at his home, Morris was snapped on a balcony in plain view of the general public road showing to huff from a white bong.

It isn’t clear what substance was in Morris’s bong, and leisure marijuana use is authorized in California. He didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.