Hunter Biden became addicted to cocaine several years ago and brought both his girlfriend and his brother’s widow (with whom he slept) to President Biden’s Virginia home, where the eldest son kept his drug paraphernalia “under lock and key” in his room, according to a former girlfriend.
Lunden Roberts, whose explosive memoir “Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden” was released on August 20, told The Post that Hallie Biden, who was always hanging out with high-powered hunters at Joe Biden’s rented home in McLean, Virginia, didn’t seem “very worldly.”
“You should meet Hallie. You’ll love her and she’ll love you. Let’s all meet!,” she wrote, adding that Hunter told her shortly after they met in 2017.
“Am I really spending time with someone who appears to have an open relationship with my sister-in-law?” Roberts, 33, wonders in the book.
But Hunter’s relationship with the current president’s son and his brother’s widow is almost a footnote in Roberts’ hilarious, nearly 400-page story, which offers a glimpse into his chaotic life.
Contrary to reports, Roberts told The Washington Post and in her book that she did not meet Hunter at a strip club, but at a small party at the offices of his investment firm, Rosemont Seneca, which was then housed in the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she had been invited by a friend.
Biden, who was convicted on felony firearms charges on Tuesday, was in the process of divorcing his first wife, Kathleen Buhle, with whom he has three children. He had begun an affair with Hallie Biden, the widow of his brother Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015.
When Roberts first found Hunter, he was in an office away from the party, wearing brightly colored boxer briefs “decorated with a parrot pattern” and with small glass pipes, copper wire and other drug paraphernalia carefully arranged on a desk in front of him.
“He turns in his chair and looks at me intently, his brow furrowed, his gaze piercing, and the most beautiful blue-grey eyes I have ever seen… He’s a complicated character, but why? He has my complete attention.”
As they began going out together and engaging in a relationship, Roberts spotted Hunter lighting up a crack pipe and pole dancing at the Mpire Club, an upscale “gentlemen’s club” in Washington, D.C., where Roberts also worked.
She also writes about Hunter’s run-ins with colorful drug dealers with names like “The Bicycles,” Hunter’s mysterious bodyguard (and possibly hitman) named “Big Country,” a wild trip to New York City on Amtrak where Hunter suddenly hops off the train to “buy some pants,” and at least one life-threatening overdose.
Roberts said Hunter had multiple cellphones in his possession at all times and frequently lost or misplaced them along with his other possessions.
She also writes about his “kindness” and desire to help others: He gave his jacket to a homeless man, forgetting that in his pockets he had his cell phone, his late brother’s ID tag, and some blocks of cocaine (he eventually tracked the man down and got the ID tag back).
Roberts writes that Hunter became accustomed to showering six or seven times a day to “ward off his demons,” and according to the book, he always had a bottle of his favorite, Tito’s Vodka, by his side.
According to the book, Roberts introduced Hunter to several younger, single female friends whom she dubbed “Amoebas,” who would drive him around in his car and fulfill his frequent requests, such as bringing him “baby powder” from strip clubs. Roberts was the only one to buy real talcum powder, and was mocked by Hunter for not realizing it was code for cocaine.
She worked at the Mpire Club, but did not say in what capacity, and also worked as one of two personal assistants to Mr Hunter.
The fun was briefly interrupted one night when Hunter showed up at the presidential suite of the five-star Rosewood Hotel in Washington, one of the luxury hotel rooms he often reserved for himself and his “amoebas,” looking more drugged than usual.
“I had never seen Hunter look more confused than he did in that moment,” Roberts wrote. “His words were incoherent, and his face seemed to be contorted to one side. I glanced at my anxious friends and tried to keep the look of concern from forming on my own face. I was terrified. Then suddenly, Hunter went limp and collapsed to the floor between the couch and the marble coffee table.
“I got on my hands and knees. ‘Hunt, are you OK?’
She described a terrifying night spent lying in bed next to her eldest son, monitoring his breathing, and agonizing over whether to call paramedics to prevent the matter from leaking and causing a scandal.
In the end, Biden survived the night and woke up the next morning “as if nothing had happened,” Roberts wrote.
However, their relationship came to an abrupt end in 2018 when she announced she was pregnant.
Roberts told the Post that Hunter was initially supportive of the pregnancy but later claimed they had only met once at a strip club and hadn’t had sex.
She wrote that he then engaged in sexual relations with one of “Amoeba’s” friends, who then tearfully apologized to Roberts.
The couple had a daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, in August 2018. Roberts filed a paternity lawsuit in 2019, forcing Hunter to take a DNA test to prove he was the daughter’s father.
Roberts, who has been living in her native Arkansas since giving birth to Navy, claims her home was the subject of around 10 suspicious break-ins between late 2020 and 2021, sometimes while she was home.
She said she still sleeps with one gun under her pillow and another on the nightstand, and keeps guns hidden throughout the house.
One day, a friend staying with her woke her up to tell her that all the doors and windows in the house were wide open and the front door lock was neatly placed on the floor.
“Sometimes bar stools were moved into the living room and other furniture was rearranged,” Roberts told The Washington Post. “Each time, my security system disconnected from the Wi-Fi. Most of the time, the thieves left big boot prints all over the house. It was clear they were trying to scare me. They didn’t steal anything.”
A year ago, after years of what Roberts called “toxic litigation,” Biden agreed to pay Roberts monthly child support for Navy and hand over several of his paintings to her, some of which are valued at as much as $500,000 apiece.
Around the same time, President Biden finally recognized Navy Joan as his seventh grandchild.
When asked by The Post why she still shows sympathy and tolerance for Hunter, Roberts acknowledged it’s because the two have a child together. She said that while Hunter and Naby have built a relationship over Zoom, no one in the Biden family has yet met the 5-year-old girl in person.
“But it’s always an option,” Roberts said of the Navy ultimately leading him to meet not only his grandfather, but his father as well. “I think Hunter really wants to step forward and do the right thing.”
