Hunter Biden accused ex-wife Kathleen of threat to leak embarrassing pics to get divorce settlement

Hunter Biden accused his ex-wife of blackmailing him to signal a divorce settlement by threatening to leak embarrassing pictures of him to the media.

The allegation was made in a letter from Hunter’s divorce lawyer to his ex-wife Kathleen’s lawyer in March 2017.

The letter, obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter’s deserted laptop computer, additionally accused Hunter’s ex, Kathleen Buhle, of anticipating Joe Biden to financially ‘backstop’ their divorce settlement.

The information comes as Buhle’s memoir is about to be launched subsequent Tuesday.

Revelations in Buhle’s e book, If We Break, embrace how she kicked Hunter out of their house after discovering a crack pipe of their ashtray in the summertime of 2015, and claims she discovered of his affair together with his brother’s widow in a household remedy session along with her children in November 2016.

 

People Magazine reported that Buhle advised them she ‘doesn’t obtain alimony from Hunter’. But emails on Hunter’s laptop computer present their divorce settlement included an obligation for him to pay his ex $37,000 monthly in perpetuity – and that Buhle had her legal professionals write indignant letters when he allegedly missed funds in 2019.

Hunter claimed in emails that he discovered of a ‘blackmail’ plot by Buhle in March 2017 amid their fraught divorce negotiations. He had his lawyer elevate the claims to them in writing.

‘Hunter has discovered that Kathleen intends…to launch purportedly compromising pictures of Hunter to the media,’ Hunter’s lawyer Sarah Mancinelli wrote on March 19 2017.

‘The threat to launch compromising pictures is fully unacceptable, and sure actionable below the District of Columbia’s blackmail statute.’

Buhle’s lawyer, Rebekah Sullivan, responded that her consumer ‘has no intention of doing so’ – however Hunter was nonetheless suspicious.

‘So implicit on this response is that she has image however for the time being doesn’t intend to launch them. It doesn’t tackle the truth that the threat was made which is a felony in and of itself,’ he wrote to his legal professionals after seeing the response.

The letter from Hunter’s lawyer additionally accused Buhle of counting on Joe Biden to financially again his son to get her alimony – and even spoke to the previous Vice President about it.

‘Hunter has discovered that Kathleen’s settlement posture is premised on her expectation that Hunter’s father will backstop any monetary association finally reached between the events,’ Mancinelli wrote. ‘Indeed, Kathleen’s expectation has even been communicated to Hunter’s father.

‘Simply put, there isn’t a ‘blank-check.’ Any settlement should be economically possible.

‘If Kathleen is assuming that Hunter’s father will carry out Hunter’s obligations, she is woefully misinformed and that mindset will hamper our means to carry this case to closure.’

The lawyer additionally warned {that a} Washington Post author was engaged on a narrative about them, and requested Buhle to promise not to converse to her.

A good friend of Buhle who has recognized her and Hunter for many years advised DailyMail.com the claims of blackmail had been ‘patently untrue’.

The good friend, who requested not to be named, mentioned the president’s son made the claims ‘because he was a f***ing crackhead.’

‘[Hunter was] literally a f***ing crackhead. A drug addict, an alcoholic, a depraved, sick, pathetic, sad individual going through the worst moment of his personal life,’ the supply mentioned.

‘He was in a bitter, acrimonious divorce proceeding with his wife and he was saying and doing anything he could to try to weasel his way out of his obligations with respect to settling that divorce.’

People Magazine reported that ‘Buhle says she doesn’t obtain alimony from Hunter and that there was no windfall divorce settlement.’

But in a January 2019 e-mail to Hunter’s lawyer, she wrote: ‘Is there an replace on my alimony?’

Buhle was involved on the time as a result of she had allegedly not acquired scheduled spousal assist funds from her ex.

A letter from her lawyer to Hunter’s per week later exhibits that the couple’s divorce settlement included an settlement for Hunter to pay Buhle not less than $37,000 monthly.

‘The MSA [Marital Settlement Agreement] supplies that, starting 04/01/2017, and persevering with thereafter RHB shall pay to KBB $37,000 monthly as Base Spousal Support,’ Sullivan wrote to Mancinelli.

Sullivan claimed that Hunter had failed to make the funds, hand over monetary info or ‘failed to moderately cooperate’ with Buhle when the IRS slapped a lien for Hunter’s unpaid taxes on an Indiana lake home property she acquired within the divorce.

The letter says that their divorce settlement additionally supplies for further funds to Buhle if Hunter earned over $875,000 in a given year.