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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ariana Baio

Alex Jones agrees to assets sell-off – giving up Infowars control – to pay $1.5bn to Sandy Hook families

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Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has finally agreed to liquidate his assets to pay the $1.5 billion he owes to some of the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims for defaming them with lies.

On Thursday Jones, 50, asked a judge to covert his bankruptcy into a Chapter 7 liquidation after a legal back-and-forth that he engaged in to try and avoid paying the billions of dollars a court has ordered him to pay the families for defamation.

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