Scandal-hit Hunter Biden ‘agreed to pay baby mama $2.5million to settle paternity case despite claiming to be broke’
HUNTER Biden agreed to pay his stripper baby mama $2.5million to settle her paternity case despite claiming to have no income and “significant” debts, it is claimed.
Controversy-plagued Hunter, 50, came to the arrangement with Lunden Roberts, 29, who he reportedly met at a D.C. strip club, earlier this year but the amount of the settlement has remained under wraps – until now.
It is also claimed recovering drug addict Hunter, called “the smartest guy I know” by his dad Joe, settled a $450,000 tax lien soon after the settlement was agreed.
Dominic Casey, a Florida-based private investigator who worked pro bono to help uncover Hunter’s finances to assist Lunden and her attorney, said he had seen documents that reveal the settlement, telling The Sun: “The information is from court files.”
Casey, whose submissions on Hunter appear in the paternity case court documents, said he is in possession of court filings that reveal the figures.
He also told The Sun in an email: “D&A Investigations, Inc. (Fla) has confirmed they facilitated the Hunter Biden-Lunden Alexis Roberts Paternity Settlement of $2.5 mil. ‘Broke’ Hunter Biden then resolved his $450k tax lien.”
Lunden’s attorney Clinton Lancaster told The Sun he could not “confirm nor deny anything related to the order” because the details have been sealed by a judge but added, “I will confirm that Ms. Roberts and her child are both happy and healthy.”
During the long-running paternity case proceedings, launched by Lunden in May 2019, Hunter complained about being unemployed, being in debt and having no regular income.
He also criticised media scrutiny into his affairs and the cost of his divorce from first wife Kathleen, with whom he has three children, which was finalised in 2017.
In paternity case documents filed by his lawyer, Hunter said: “In an effort to demonstrate to this Court my good faith, I attest that I am unemployed and have had no monthly income since May 2019.
“I currently have significant debts (in part as a result of obligations arising from my divorce which was final in April 2017) that are being calculated by accountants”.
Despite those claims, paperwork filed by Lunden’s attorney also said that Hunter, who also has a seven-month-old baby with new wife Melissa, was estimated to be worth $156million.
The paperwork said “at least one proposed intervenor contends that the defendant has assets of over $156 million dollars”.
For almost a year, Hunter, his new wife Melissa and now their new baby, have reportedly been living at a $13,000-a-month, $2.2million three-bed rental in the Hollywood Hills – although the family has not now been seen in public for several weeks.
The FBI is now investigating a laptop said to have been owned by Hunter which it is claimed contains evidence Joe Biden helped shape foreign policy to the Ukraine which was favorable to his son. Those claims have been denied by the former Vice-President.
According to reports, pics of Hunter engaged in sex and drugs acts have also been posted to a Chinese website linked to former Donald Trump adviser, Steve Bannon.
Hunter and Lunden’s baby daughter, Joe’s seventh grandchild, was born in August 2018.
It is believed the Democratic nominee has never met or even seen a photo of the unnamed two year old, referred to in paperwork as NJR.
The Sun was the first to reveal Hunter had settled the paternity case and that Joe had never seen the child.
Hunter’s controversial business dealings in the Ukraine, now under official investigation, was also poured over in the paternity case.
Court documents, filed by Lunden’s attorney, repeat the allegation he was receiving between $50,000 and $75,000 a month from the “corrupt” Ukrainian energy company Burisma and that he helped secure deals worth billions from China.
Hunter “is the subject of more than one (1) criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme” the documents say.
The paternity claim was filed by Lunden in Batesville, Arizona, her home town, in May last year.
Hunter’s paternity was established by a DNA test late last year which Lunden and the court struggled to get him to attend.
But on March 11, Lunden’s attorney wrote: “Late last night… we reached a global, final settlement of all issues” and the claim is now officially classed as closed.”
Lunden’s attorney Clinton Lancaster also said Hunter has had no role in the child’s upbringing.
He wrote Hunter has “never interacted with the child, never parented the child, never made or even participated in health related decisions for the child, never interacted with the child’s medical professionals, never seen the child and could not identify the child out of a photo lineup.”
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Court documents show Hunter is now paying an undisclosed sum in monthly child support and health insurance which started on April 1.
Hunter’s lawyers and Joe Biden’s press team were approached for comment but did not respond.