Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has used his InfoWars fortune to amass a weird assortment of things—together with a $4,000 cryogenic-freezing chamber and greater than $100,000 in weapons.
The brand new revelations about Jones’ private wealth, which additionally contains roughly $54,000 in watches and cufflinks and a fleet of three boats valued at greater than $100,000, got here in a Thursday submitting in a Texas chapter court docket.
Jones and InfoWars’ mother or father firm each filed for chapter final yr, as they face greater than $1 billion in court docket judgments gained by the households of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook college taking pictures after Jones claimed the taking pictures was staged.
However whereas the submitting gives a glimpse into how Jones spent the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} he earned by pushing conspiracy theories, it’s not clear that it presents an correct portrait of his wealth. Thursday’s submitting got here after a decide required Jones to submit extra correct financials, revealing $4.8 million in undisclosed property for a complete wealth of $14.7 million.
And whereas Jones enjoys a rich way of life by InfoWars, the disclosures don’t clarify how Jones may have comparatively few property when in comparison with his even bigger InfoWars wage. In 2019, for instance, Jones reported $36 million on his tax submitting. That quantity grew in 2021 and 2022, with Jones reporting roughly $38 million in revenue every of these years. In his new submitting, Jones claims that he doesn’t personal any shares or bonds, and has just a bit greater than $200,000 in financial institution accounts.
Jones and his authorized workforce flaunted courtroom process in the course of the Sandy Hook trials, and he’s going through related accusations within the chapter instances. On Monday, the decide dealing with the chapter of InfoWars’ mother or father firm stated he was “troubled” to study that Jones had diverted $157,000 meant for InfoWars to himself as an alternative, a transfer that would assist him defend property from the mammoth Sandy Hook judgment.
Jones and InfoWars didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Probably the most attention-grabbing merchandise on Jones’s new asset checklist could also be a CRYONiQ model cryogenic-freezing chamber estimated to be price $4,000. The corporate guarantees to present customers “the coldest expertise,” blasting their our bodies with frigid temperatures.
Jones’ conspiracy principle affluence has helped him purchase various properties, based on the submitting, together with a number of condominiums, a $1.75 million lake home on Texas’ Lake Travis, and a house price $3.26 million. Jones additionally owns a Texas farm property valued at greater than $2 million, based on the submitting.
Add to that various autos, together with 4 vehicles—two SUV’s and two sports activities vehicles—valued at greater than $200,000. Jones’ boat assortment is price greater than $100,000, based on the submitting.
Jones has an in depth firearms assortment, based on the doc, with 54 weapons collectively valued at $101,261. Within the submitting, Jones additionally acknowledged that he’s holding on to weapons owned by two Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants as they face prosecution.
Jones as soon as co-owned a helicopter, based on the submitting, however later offered his stake in change for the rights to eight helicopter journeys a yr. Jones isn’t any stranger to helicopters—in 2021, his ex-wife posted a video she claimed confirmed the conspiracy-theory kingpin harassing her by flying by her residence in a helicopter.
Jones has additionally constructed an in depth watch assortment by his conspiracy principle enterprise, with 19 watches and a pair of cufflinks valued at $54,622.
The chapter submitting comes as Jones’ enterprise and private actions are extra uncovered than ever. In February, the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle printed various Jones’ textual content messages after his lawyer inadvertently gave them to a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook households. The messages confirmed Jones, amongst different issues, showing to pay a former worker of the non-public army contractor Blackwater to surveil his present spouse, fearful that she was having an affair at the same time as he gave the impression to be having considered one of his personal.
Jones has additionally confronted stress from a disgruntled InfoWars worker, who launched security-camera footage of Jones showing to drink arduous liquor in the midst of the day in his workplace.