JUST IN: Judge Orders Alex Jones’s Personal Assets Liquidated to Pay Sandy Hook Victims

Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File

Alex Jones must liquidate his personal assets in order to pay the $1.5 billion settlement granted to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.

The order was issued by federal Judge Christopher Lopez in Texas on Friday, who approved Jones’ move to convert his bankruptcy filing into a liquidation of his personal assets. The fate of his conspiracy theory site InfoWars has yet to be determined.

Jones started making moves to sell off his personal assets earlier this month while telling his InfoWars audience that the conspiracy-spreading operation was likely coming to an end. Lopez’s ruling does not include the parent company of InfoWars, Free Speech Systems, so for now, the company Jones has owned and run since the 1990s. Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022.

Among Jones’ personal assets is his Texas ranch, worth about $2.8 million and a gun collection, both of which he has put forward to sell. His total personal assets value around $9 million.

The Sandy Hook families claimed ahead of Friday’s ruling that Jones was saying on his podcast that he had no assets and was making “flagrant and repeated attempts to funnel property of the FSS estate to an unaffiliated entity owned by his father — while using the Infowars brand name and infrastructure to do so .. is intentionally value destructive.”

Jones was sued by Sandy Hook families after he repeatedly lied about the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including conspiracy theories that the shooting never happened and that the children and families either never existed or were “crisis actors” to stir up gun control activists.

This story has been updated.