Infowars’ Alex Jones files for bankruptcy
Infowars host Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas as he faces nearly $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) in damages over conspiracy theories he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in bankruptcy court in Houston.
His filing lists $1 billion (£820 million) to $10 billion dollars in liabilities (£8.2 billion).
The bankruptcy filing comes as Jones faces court orders to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut for calling the massacre a hoax.
A total of 26 people were killed by a gunman at the school in Newtown, 20 of them children.
Earlier this year, a Connecticut jury awarded the families $965 million in compensatory damages (£792 million), and a judge later tacked on another $473 million (£388 million) in punitive damages.