Julia Fox’s brother was sentenced to more than a year behind bars on gun possession charges Wednesday — as their dad implored the court not to “waste taxpayer dollars” locking up his “harmless” son.
Christopher Fox, 31, was sentenced to 1 1/3 to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree last December for making ghost guns with his 3D printer inside his parent’s Upper East Side apartment.
His father, Thomas, left the Manhattan Supreme Court courtroom questioning whether it made sense to burn taxpayer dollars to lock up his son — who he said wouldn’t “even hurt a bug on the floor.”
“It’s kind of a waste of taxpayer money to spend on him because he’s a harmless person, no threat to society and never sold any guns or drugs,” Thomas said, following Judge Cori Weston sentencing.
Fox, the brother of the “Uncut Gems” star, was arrested in March 2023 after authorities found numerous 3D printed parts for guns, including enough pieces to “assemble an assault weapon-style rifle,” prosecutors said at the time.
But the slimmed-down Christopher, who traded his usual suit for a pair of comfy sweats at his court appearance, is “no threat to society” and was simply making gun parts out of boredom, his father claimed.
“It was an engineering challenge,” the father claimed, adding that Christopher was “devoting” himself to crafting gloves to help shaking patients of Parkinson’s disease following his arrest.
“I told [Christopher] of all the things to redesign, couldn’t you pick something else to make?” he added.
Julia, who once donned one of her famous necktie outfits to a previous court appearance, was not in attendance Wednesday.
The writer and performer once dated controversial rapper Kanye West before the couple split after less than two months in 2022.
Christopher’s attorney, Julie Rendelman, declined to comment following the proceeding.
