Kathleen Buhle

Kathleen Buhle (formerly Kathleen Biden; born December 5, 1968[1]) is an American non-profit executive and writer. Buhle is the former wife of Hunter Biden, a son of U.S. President Joe Biden. She is the author of the 2022 memoir If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing, which details her life while married to him.

Kathleen Buhle
Born (1968-12-05) December 5, 1968
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other namesKathleen Biden
EducationSaint Mary's University of Minnesota
OccupationWriter
Spouse
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(m. 1993; div. 2017)​
Children3, including Naomi and Finnegan

Early life and education

Buhle was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a middle-class Catholic family.[2] Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was a salesman for the Chicago White Sox.[3] She was educated in Catholic schools and graduated from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, with a degree in psychology.[2][4][5]

Later life

In July 1992, Buhle met Hunter Biden, son of then-Senator Joe Biden and Neilia Hunter Biden, while the two were working as Jesuit volunteers at a Catholic church in Portland, Oregon.[3][5] Buhle became pregnant three months into their relationship, and the two married in July 1993. Biden and Buhle moved to Washington, D.C., where her husband was a law student at Georgetown University. She gave birth to their first daughter, Naomi King Biden, on December 21, 1993. The family later settled in Wilmington, Delaware, and, in 1997, bought an estate dating back before the American Revolution. Buhle's brother-in-law, Beau Biden, moved in with them while he worked as a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia. On September 9, 2000,[6] she gave birth to their second daughter, Finnegan James Biden. In 2001, she gave birth to their third daughter, Roberta Mabel "Maisy" Biden. The family moved back to Washington, D.C., and rented a house in Tenleytown. When her father-in-law and step-mother-in-law Jill Biden were respectively serving as vice president and second lady of the United States, Buhle became close friends with First Lady Michelle Obama.[3]

In 2015, Buhle and Biden formally separated due to Biden's alcoholism and drug addictions. On December 9, 2016, Buhle filed for a divorce, and on February 23, 2017, she filed a motion in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, seeking to freeze Biden's assets.[3][7] During this time, her husband began an affair with his brother's widow Hallie Olivere Biden.[5] Their divorce was finalized later that year.[8][5] In 2019, she formally changed her surname from Biden back to her maiden name, Buhle.[9]

She authored a memoir titled If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing about her marriage to Biden and his drug addiction.[5][10] The book came out in June 2022.[11]

Personal life

Buhle lives in Washington, D.C., where she started a women's club to assist people in need.[12]

References
  1. United States Public Records
  2. ""If We Break" by Kathleen Buhle: Patriarchy, Christianity, & Privilege". Vincent Triola. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  3. "The Lives and Losses of Hunter Biden". The New Yorker. June 28, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  4. Schreckinger, Ben (September 21, 2021). The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5387-3799-6.
  5. "If We Break review: Hunter Biden as horror husband and political problem". The Guardian. June 19, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  6. "Finnegan Biden Joins Her Grandmother Jill Biden in London for the Coronation". Town & Country. May 6, 2023.
  7. "Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden's Ex, to Address Their Divorce in Book: 'I Lost My Sense of Who I Was'". People. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  8. Rogers, Katie (November 19, 2022). "Naomi Biden, President's Granddaughter, Is Wed at the White House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  9. "Biden's ex daughter-in-law opens up about marriage to Hunter". WMBD-TV. June 1, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  10. "Kathleen Buhle says ex-husband Hunter Biden always knew 'the benefit and advantage' of being from a 'prominent family'". Yahoo! News. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  11. "First Look at Kathleen Buhle's Memoir: Hunter Biden's Ex on His Affair with Sister-in-Law — and Forgiveness". People. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  12. Bennett, Kate (June 14, 2022). "Hunter Biden's ex-wife Kathleen Buhle says she had no knowledge of ex-husband's financial dealings". CNN. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
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