Former Fox News star Tucker Carlson says he barely knows his stepsister.
But she’s got pictures of them at a recent Easter dinner together.
As Carlson wages a very public war against President Donald Trump and loses allies by the day, a fresh embarrassment has arrived in the form of a family inheritance lawsuit filed by his stepsister, Dr. Roberta “Bo” Hunt.
Hunt says Carlson and his brother, Buckley, have been improperly collecting monthly payments from the Swanson frozen food fortune, which she says doesn’t belong to them.
Hunt, 61, a Georgia college professor, is the only biological daughter of Patricia Swanson Carlson, who is the heiress to the iconic TV dinner empire. Patricia adopted Tucker and Buckley in 1979 after marrying their father, TV newsman Dick Carlson.
When she died in November 2023, court documents show Tucker and Buckley each began receiving $2,414 a month from the Gilbert C. Swanson Family Residuary Trust. Their father Dick was pulling in roughly $11,000 a month from a separate related trust.
Hunt filed a lawsuit in Omaha, Nebraska, in September 2024, arguing the trusts were explicitly set up by her grandfather to benefit only “lineal descendants born in lawful wedlock” of the Swanson bloodline — meaning adopted family members don’t qualify.
When The Daily Mail asked Tucker about it, he reportedly played dumb.
“I don’t know who this person is really,” he said, insisting he hasn’t seen her since the 1980s and has had “no contact with this person in more than 30 years.”
Hunt showed up to that denial armed with receipts.
She provided the Daily Mail with family photos showing Tucker and Buckley flanking her at her 1982 debutante ball, a photo of the two families at Easter brunch in Washington, D.C., around 2008, pictures of Tucker’s wife socializing at his home around 2010, and a Christmas card she says she received from Tucker in recent years.
“I don’t know why he would lie about it,” Hunt said. “They must have amnesia, especially because I sent them these pictures about eight months ago.”
Tucker’s father refused to tell her which hospital their dying mother had been taken to in 2023, she claims, and she was forced to hire a private investigator to find out. When Patricia died, Hunt said Dick also refused to reschedule the funeral, which fell on the same day as her daughter’s graduation, forcing her to say goodbye to her mother in the morgue.
Tucker has claimed he is not personally involved in the trust proceedings and “never taken a dollar of the money.” But court filings submitted on his behalf acknowledged it is “true” he received the payments, and later filings confirm he and Buckley have hired attorneys to take the case to trial in August.
Hunt said she isn’t after the money, just fairness.
“I’m not saying I hate him or that he’s a bad person,” Hunt told the Daily Mail. “I just want him to do what he knows is the right thing.”
Take a look –
Dr. Roberta Hunt, a Georgia professor, says she grew up with Tucker in California in the 70s & 80s, after her mother adopted him and married his father.
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— Josh Boswell (@JoshTBoswell) April 23, 2026
Tucker doesn’t mention her at all – not in the 1,000+ hours of interviews for his 2023 biography, nor among his father’s survivors in the 2025 obituary he wrote, nor in a 2hr+ podcast chat with his brother about their childhood.
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— Josh Boswell (@JoshTBoswell) April 23, 2026
And then there’s her lawsuit…
You can read Roberta’s shocking legal claims – and Tucker’s fiery response – here @Daily_MailUS https://t.co/Gp57jiYH70
— Josh Boswell (@JoshTBoswell) April 23, 2026