Ashley Biden, his eldest daughter, is no stranger to scandals as she grew up with her father Joe’s political career, watching him serve for nearly five decades in the Senate and eventually become vice president and president of the United States .
The 42-year-old is back in the news after it was revealed on December 18, she owes $5,000 in income taxes dating back to 2015.
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, Philadelphia County, informed the younger Biden that “the amount of such unpaid taxes, interest, additions or penalties constitutes a lien in favor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the taxpayer’s property – real, personal or both – as the case may be,” according to a recent tax lien filing obtained by The Post.
Here’s what we know about Ashley Biden.
Early life
Ashley Biden is the only child of Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and is the half-sister of Hunter Biden and the late Beau Biden.
She was born on June 8, 1981, and attended Wilmington Friends School, a private high school operated by the Delaware Religious Society of Friends.
Ashley Biden earned a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Tulane University in New Orleans in 2003, and went on to earn a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice in 2010.
Originally, Ashley said she wanted to become a therapist, but instead followed in her father’s footsteps and pursued public policy.
“The one thing my parents always told me was: ‘Follow your passion’” Biden told Elle magazine in March.
“There was never any pressure to go into the service, but I saw my mother — a teacher — and my father, who were working on issues that Americans care about.”
Biden served as executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 until 2019, when she left to work on her father’s presidential campaign.
Marriage
Biden married Dr. Howard Kerin in a Catholic-Jewish interfaith wedding in 2012. The couple had been created by Beau Biden.
Kerin is an otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.
The drug scandal
In 2009, a man claiming to be a “friend” of Ashley Biden attempted to distribute a video that he claimed showed her snorting cocaine at a house party, The Post exclusively reported at the time.
An attorney representing the unidentified man showed The Post about 90 seconds of the 43-minute tape, saying it was obtained legally and that Ashley knew it was being filmed.
The Post refused to pay for the video, which appeared to show Biden taking a red straw out of his mouth, leaning over a desk, inserting the straw into his nostril and sniffing lines of white powder.
The dialogue is difficult to discern, but the woman makes repeated references to drugs, said the lawyers, who said they watched the tape about 15 times.
“At one point she complains that the line isn’t big enough,” said one of the lawyers who showed the video to The Post but declined to identify himself. “And she talks about her father.”
Subsequently, it was revealed that Biden had been arrested for marijuana possession at Tulane, but was never charged.
His diary is stolen
During Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign against Donald Trump, the the contents of Ashley’s diary were found in the hands of Project Veritas — a controversial conservative media outlet that rose to prominence by running sting operations against Democratic groups like Planned Parenthood and mainstream media organizations.
The website, then run by James O’Keefe, did not publish excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary, but another conservative website published dozens of handwritten pages from it on October 24, 2020, before the election presidential, according to a New York Times report.
The newspaper’s publication drew attention to a passage in which Ashley wrote about taking “showers with my dad” as a young girl, which was “probably not appropriate.”
Project Veritas obtained a whistleblower’s diary from another news organization that declined to publish the information.
The outlet claimed it knew where the real diary was and that the whistleblower had an audio recording of Ashley admitting it belonged to her.
Last year, Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty to steal the newspaper.
As part of his plea deal, Kurlander agreed to cooperate with federal investigators looking into how Project Veritas purchased the newspaper, prosecutors said.
