A jury has stripped right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of having primary custody of his children and awarded joint custody to his ex-wife.

State District Judge Orlinda Naranjo also announced Kelly Jones will decide where their three children will live, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

The details of the conspiracy theorist's visitation rights are not yet known.

The Travis County jury deliberated all Thursday afternoon and late into the night before returning its verdict, 10-2.

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Alex Jones, pictured on April 19, was stripped of primary custody of his children aged 9, 12 and 14 and will now share joint custody with his ex-wife, Kelly, who will now be able to decide where the children live

Jones had hoped to remain the sole caregiver of Rex (left, with Jones), 14, and his two daughters. Kelly Jones' attorney told jurors that Alex is a 'cult leader' who was 'emotionally, sexually, physically abusive'

In closing arguments, Kelly Jones' attorney, Robert Hoffman, told jurors the radio personality is a 'cult leader' who's turning their children against his ex-wife.

He told the court that his client's marriage was 'emotionally, sexually, physically abusive.'

Hoffman had told the jury: 'Nobody can stop this man except the 12 of you.'

Earlier, Alex Jones' attorney told the jury the children, ages 9, 12 and 14, are thriving under Jones' care and he should remain the sole caregiver.

They had argued that Kelly Jones was emotionally unstable, while her lawyers argued that her emotional dysregulation was 'natural' in the face of 'parental alienation,' the process by which Jones allegedly brainwashed his children into hating her.

The custody trial was notable for the extent to which Alex Jones' controversial back story as a conspiracy theorist radio host played out in his personal life.

In the past, Jones has claimed the Sandy Hook murders of 20 children and six adult staff members was fabricated.

In a pretrial hearing, one of Alex Jones' lawyers, Randall Wilhite, said that his client is a 'performance artist' who is just 'playing a character' on Infowars.

'He's playing a character,' he said, according to myStatesman . 'He is a performance artist.'

Kelly Jones, her lawyers said, was the victim of 'parental alienation,' or the process by which Alex Jones allegedly brainwashed his children into hating her

However, Jones walked back those claims in an Infowars broadcast, in which he said he '110 per cent' believed the things he said in his show, according to The Daily Beast.

They've got articles out today that I say I'm a fake... total bull! ... I 110 per cent believe what I stand for. They've got articles out today that I say I'm a fake, all of this other c**p. Total bull!' he said.

'The media is deceiving everywhere. I 110 per cent believe what I stand for. We’re changing the world with you.'

He also released an Infowars show in the midst of the dispute in which he alleged that by 16 years old, he'd slept with 150 women - and that's a 'conservative' number.

'When I was 16, I didn’t want to party any more. I didn’t want to play games any more,' he says in the video.

'I grew up. I’d already been in the fights, all the big rituals. I’d already had probably – I hate to brag, but I’m not bragging, it’s actually shameful – probably 150 women, or more, that’s conservative. I’d already had over 150 women.'

He also claims he'd been in fights with 'full grown men' and was dating college girls by 15.

'I was already a MAN!' he says in the video.

Jones, pictured during an Infowars broadcast in which he claims to reveal the existence of 'Sandy Hook vampires' was the subject of scrutiny during the trial

Jones is a conspiracy theorist who claimed the Sandy Hook massacre at a Connecticut elementary school was fabricated. In court, his lawyers argued that he is a 'performance artist'

He also gave himself kudos for having children earlier than most men, saying he'd had a son by 24. However, his son is 14, and if he'd had him by 24, the son, Rex, would be 18 or 19, said the Austin-American Statesman.

'So, if Jones had a son when he was 24, that was another son. That’s completely possible.

'And, he is, of course, under no obligation to tell writers when they are doing profiles of him that he has another son.

'It’s just that it’s not something that’s been mentioned in anything I’ve read about Jones,' wrote Jonathan Tilove in his Austin-American Statesman blog.

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'You're supposed to have children by 16 in every culture biologically,' Jones said in the video. 'You're not having them 16, there's something wrong with you.'

Yet despite this apparently quite vigorous sex life, in a 2010 interview, he had described himself as 'socially oblivious,' said the outlet.

Despite this apparent active teenage sex life, Jones testified last week during his trial that he couldn't remember if he'd ever cheated on his fiancee, Erika, now his eight months pregnant wife.

The conspiracy theorist also testified that he smoked marijuana, breaking the law in Texas, but only did it to 'test out its strength.'

Jones, pictured in Watford, England during 2013's Bilderberg conference, said under cross-examination that Texas chili caused him to forget details of the lives of his children

The InfoWars host admitted during cross-examination to smoking the drug during the last two-and-a-half years, but compared himself to a law enforcement officer testing out the strength of the drug, according to the Austin-American Statesman.

'That’s what police do. They smoke it once a year too,' he said.

He added that his smoking it led him to believe it was too strong to be legalized and he talked about the experiment on his show.

Judge Naranjo allowed two videos of Jones' on-screen persona as evidence: the clip of him smoking marijuana on Joe Rogan's television show and another of a drunken Jones on inauguration night, the Daily Beast reported.

While being cross-examined, Jones spoke about a range of topics including George Soros and Texas chili.

He blamed the latter for his inability to remember details of the lives of his children.