InfoWars host and political commentator Alex Jones has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, according to a court filing.
The filing detailed that Jones has between $1 million and $10 million of assets and between $1 billion and $10 billion of liabilities. It also refers to the parent company of Infowars, Free Speech Systems, as having filed for bankruptcy in July.
The filing comes two months after Jones was ordered to pay over $965 million in damages by a Connecticut jury in his defamation trial over his false claims regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting that took place in 2012. In November, Jones and Free Speech Systems were ordered to pay an additional $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent.
ALEX JONES ORDERED TO PAY $473 MILLION MORE TO FAMILIES OF SANDY HOOK VICTIMS, ASSETS FROZEN
In a separate Texas case, a jury decided in August that Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages.
Jones claimed on his broadcasts for years that the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting was staged and part of a broader government conspiracy to implement gun control. He has since acknowledged the shooting occurred and apologized for his previous claims.
The filing comes one day after Jones hosted rapper and producer Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, on his InfoWars show, where the performer exclaimed, “I like Hitler,” several times and caused an uproar on social media. Jones was visibly disturbed by Ye’s remarks and pushed back on his praise of Nazis, telling a story about how his grandfather fought in World War II specifically because he wanted to end the Nazi regime in Germany.
“I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis,” the rapper added during the show.
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Ye’s Twitter account was suspended just hours after Jones allegedly tweeted from the performer’s own account Thursday because Jones is also banned from the platform. Before the ban, Ye also tweeted an image that appeared to combine a Jewish Star of David and a Nazi swastika.
“I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Twitter owner Elon Musk said in a Friday morning tweet.
