Hunter Biden biography: 13 things about lawyer born in Wilmington, Delaware

Robert Hunter Biden is an American lawyer and investment advisor born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. He is the second son of 46th U.S. president Joseph “Joe” Robinette Biden Jr. and the late Neilia Hunter Biden.

Who is Hunter Biden?

On November 8, 1971, Neilia gave birth to Naomi Biden. On December 18, 1972, the two died in an automobile crash in Hockessin, Delaware.

On June 17, 1977, Joe married Jill Jacobs Biden. On June 8, 1981, she gave birth to their daughter Ashley Biden.

In 2002, Hunter’s big brother Beau Biden married Hallie Olivere Biden. She gave birth to Natalie Biden and Robert Hunter Biden II in 2005 and 2007, respectively.

On May 30, 2015, Beau died of brain cancer. From 2016 to 2017, Hallie and Hunter were in a romantic relationship, which was supported by her father Ron Olivere, Joe and Jill.

Hunter attended Archmere Academy, a Catholic high school in Claymont, Delaware. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 1992, he earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., USA. He attended Georgetown University Law Center for one year before transferring to Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, where he graduated in 1996.
2. In 1993, he met Kathleen Buhle at a church in Portland, Oregon, USA where he was serving as a Jesuit volunteer. They got married in the same year. In October 2015, he separated from her. In 2016, she filed for divorce and accused him of “spending extravagantly on his own interests including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations.”
3. In 1996, he started working at MBNA America. He started as an executive and went on to become a senior vice president. He left the company in 2001 but still received consulting fees from the Delaware-based banking holding company until 2005.
4. In 1997, he bought a dilapidated estate in Wilmington, which was originally owned by Anna Sasso, according to The New Yorker. In 1998, he started working as the executive director of economy policy coordination at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He left after the end of 42nd U.S. president Bill Clinton‘s administration in 2001.
5. Appointed by 42nd U.S. president George W. Bush as a gesture of bipartisanship, he became a member of the Amtrak board of directors in July 2006. He resigned in February 2009.
6. In 2009, he co-founded Rosemont Seneca with Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz. In 2013, the investment and advisory firm established private equity fund BHR Partners along with U.S.-based Thornton Group LLC and two asset managers were registered in China.
7. In 2012, he was commissioned into the U.S. Navy Reserve as an officer. In May 2013, he required two waivers before joining the U.S. Naval Reserve. He had a previous drug use incident and he was 43 years old, which was above the normal age for a military recruit.
8. In February 2014, he was discharged from the U.S. Navy for testing positive for cocaine. In April 2014, he joined the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma after a change of regime in Ukraine and became a counsel in the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
9. He is accused of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2020.
10. In August 2018, Lunden Alexis Roberts gave birth to their child in Arkansas, USA.
11. In April 2019, his term as a member of the board of Burisma ended. In May 2019, he married South African filmmaker Melissa Cohen, who gave birth to their son in Los Angeles, California, USA in March 2020.
12. On December 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice filed three felony and six misdemeanor tax offenses against him.
13. On February 4, 2024, he turned 54. On June 11, 2024, he was found guilty of lying on a federal form when he bought a gun in October 2018, unlawfully possessing a gun as a drug user and making a false statement about information required to be collected by a federally licensed gun dealer.