Hunter Biden claimed ex-wife Kathleen blackmailed him with compromising photos, leaked emails show
As Kathleen Buhle’s memoir ‘If We Break’ is due to be published on June 14, leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop reportedly shows him accusing his former wife of blackmailing him to sign a divorce settlement. According to the emails, Kathleen threatened to leak a few compromising pictures of him to the media, in the event he refused.
As reported by Daily Mail, the accusation was made in an email, found in Hunter's abandoned laptop, from his divorce lawyer to his ex-wife Kathleen's lawyer. He claimed in emails that he learned of a blackmail plot by Kathleen in March 2017 amid their fraught divorce negotiations and had his lawyer raise the claims to them in writing. "Hunter has learned that Kathleen intends, ... to release purportedly compromising photos of Hunter to the media," Hunter's lawyer Sarah Mancinelli wrote on March 19, 2017. He further added, "The threat to release compromising photos is entirely unacceptable, and likely actionable under the District of Columbia's blackmail statute." Kathleen's attorney, Rebekah Sullivan, responded that her client "has no intention of doing so." The letter also accused Kathleen of expecting Joe Biden to financially backstop their divorce settlement.
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People Magazine reported that the 52-year-old Kathleen told them "she does not receive alimony from Hunter." But emails on Hunter's laptop show their divorce settlement included an obligation for him to pay his former wife a whopping $37,000 per month in perpetuity – and that Buhle had her lawyers write angry letters when he allegedly missed payments in 2019.
According to DailyMail, in her January 2019 email to Hunter's lawyer, Kathleen asked, "Is there an update on my alimony?" She was concerned because she had allegedly not received the scheduled spousal support payments, and a letter from her lawyer to Hunter's a week later shows that the couple's divorce settlement included an agreement for Hunter to pay Buhle at least $37,000 per month. "The MSA [Marital Settlement Agreement] provides that, beginning 04/01/2017, and continuing thereafter RHB shall pay to KBB $37,000 per month as Base Spousal Support," Sullivan wrote to Mancinelli.
Kathleen's discovery about Hunter's addiction
They’d been married for 22 years when Kathleen Buhle allegedly made the discovery in 2015 that her then husband, the father of her three daughters, was addicted to drink, drugs and sex. In her upcoming book, she also describes how she found out that Hunter was having an affair with his late brother Beau’s widow, Hallie.
The book, which will release this month, will be the first public comment to have been made by Hunter's former spouse concerning their divorce and its impact, though some of the details of the couple’s split did play out in courtroom battles.