Crime & Safety
Julia Fox's Brother Indicted Over Ghost Gun 'Factory' In NYC Apt: DA
Christopher Fox, 30, whom his actor sister once called a "mad scientist," 3-D printed assault-style guns in his apartment, prosecutors said.

NEW YORK CITY — The brother of "Uncut Gems" star and Kanye West ex Julia Fox faces a sprawling indictment on accusations he turned his home into a ghost gun-making "factory," prosecutors said.
Christopher Fox, 30, was charged Wednesday with a slew of gun- and drug-related charges after a high-profile raid of his Upper East Side apartment.
Photographs taken after the March 8 raid show what prosecutors said was found in Fox's East 84th Street home: a slew of 3-D printed gun parts and a pill press.
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Fox used an "arsenal" of materials to produce both guns and drugs, said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a statement.
“His use of 3D printing to manufacture parts for assault-style weapons serves as another example of just how easy and cheap it is to create dangerous firearms in a home or apartment," Bragg said.
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"With just a couple clicks online and a few hundred dollars, these guns can be created without any background check or license."
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Fox's 3-D printing habit appears in a Highsnobiety interview with his famous sister, who told the publication she had one brother living in Italy and another who grew up with her in New York.
"He still lives here, but he’s not really around," the star said. "He builds 3D printers for fun.
"He’s like a mad scientist recluse."

This "fun" crossed the line into criminality sometime in 2018, when Christopher Fox starting buying items to assemble firearms and build 3-D weapons, prosecutors said.
By December, Fox had purchased at least 190 items worth nearly $7,600 that could create and put together weapons, authorities said.
Fox had also bought more than $7,000 worth of drug paraphernalia and chemicals, ranging from chloroform to nitric acid, that could be used to press tablets and make pills, prosecutors said.
Investigators who searched Fox's apartment found fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, buprenorphine, amphetamine and methadone, authorities said.
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