Kathleen Buhle Explained

Kathleen Buhle
Birth Name:Kathleen Anne Buhle
Other Names:Kathleen Biden
Birth Date:c.
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Children:3, including Naomi
Education:Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Occupation:Writer, lobbyist, investment manager, non-profit executive
Organization:The House at 1229

Kathleen Anne Buhle (formerly Biden; b.) is an American writer and non-profit executive. She is the founder and CEO of the non-profit organization The House at 1229. Buhle is the author of the 2022 memoir If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing, which details her life while married to Hunter Biden, a son of U.S. President Joe Biden.

Early life and education

Kathleen Anne Buhle was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a middle-class Catholic family.[1] [2] Her mother, Roberta Buhle,[3] was a schoolteacher and her father James F. Buhle was a salesman for the Chicago White Sox.[4] [5] She was educated in Catholic schools and graduated from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, with a degree in psychology.[6] [7]

Career and marriage

Buhle worked as a high school guidance and admissions counselor. In July 1992, (at age 23) she 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.[8] [5] [7] Buhle and Biden began a relationship a few months after meeting, and she became pregnant three months into their relationship.

They married in July 1993, and she gave birth to their first daughter, Naomi King Biden, on December 21, 1993. Biden and Buhle moved to Washington, D.C., where her husband was a law student at Georgetown University. 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, she gave birth to their second daughter, Finnegan James Biden, and in 2001 she gave birth to their third daughter, Roberta Mabel "Maisy" Biden.[9] 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.

In 2015, Buhle and Biden formally separated due to Biden's infidelity,[10] alcoholism and drug addictions. Buhle requested that Hunter Biden leave their family home on July 5, 2015.[11] 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.[12] After initially being "messy" the divorce was finalized amicably later that year.[13] In 2019, she formally changed her surname from Biden back to her maiden name, Buhle.[14]

She authored her memoir titled If We Break about her marriage to Biden and his drug addiction.[7] [15] The book came out in June 2022.[16]

Buhle founded the non-profit organization The House at 1229, a women's club to assist people in need in Washington, D.C.[17] [18] Buhle works as the CEO of the organization.[19]

Personal life

Buhle lives in Washington, D.C.[17]

In 2019, Buhle was diagnosed with colon cancer. By 2022, she was cancer-free.[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 29 May 1993 . Biden's Son To Wed . July 31, 2023 . . 32 . July 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731151713/https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3BhcGVycy5jb20vaW1hZ2UvMTU4ODk5NjQyLz90ZXJtcz0lMjJLYXRobGVlbiUyMEJ1aGxlJTIyJm1hdGNoPTE- . live .
  2. Web site: "If We Break" by Kathleen Buhle: Patriarchy, Christianity, & Privilege . November 26, 2022 . Vincent Triola . July 26, 2022 . July 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731014939/https://vincenttriola.com/blogs/book-reviews/if-we-break-by-kathleen-buhle-the-intersection-of-patriarchy-christianity-privilege . live .
  3. Malle . Chloe . November 22, 2022 . Exclusive: Naomi Biden On Her White House Wedding . July 31, 2023 . Vogue . July 21, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230721070615/https://www.vogue.com/article/naomi-biden-white-house-wedding-first-lady . live .
  4. News: 6 June 1993 . Engagements . 60 . The News Journal.
  5. June 28, 2019 . The Lives and Losses of Hunter Biden . November 26, 2022. The New Yorker.
  6. Book: Schreckinger, Ben . The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power . September 21, 2021 . Grand Central Publishing . 978-1-5387-3799-6 . Ben Schreckinger . February 26, 2023 . July 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731031917/https://books.google.com/books?id=NYoUEAAAQBAJ&dq=is+kathleen+buhle+catholic&pg=PT90 . live .
  7. News: Green . Lloyd . June 19, 2022 . If We Break review: Hunter Biden as horror husband and political problem . The Guardian . November 26, 2022 . July 28, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230728013228/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/19/if-we-break-review-hunter-biden-joe-kathleen . live .
  8. News: Heller . Karen . 14 June 2022 . Hunter Biden's ex opens up about why she stayed — and why she left . . live . 29 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221109234133/https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/14/kathleen-buhle-memoir/ . 9 November 2022.
  9. Web site: Burack . Emily . May 6, 2023 . Finnegan Biden Joins Her Grandmother Jill Biden in London for the Coronation . Town & Country . May 9, 2023 . May 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230509064322/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a43806822/who-is-finnegan-biden/ . live .
  10. News: Fishman . Margie . 2 March 2017 . Divorce filing details split of Kathleen, Hunter Biden . July 31, 2023 . . July 29, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230729012042/https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/03/02/kathleen-biden-files-divorce-hunter/98638454/ . live .
  11. News: April 4, 2017 . Biden son, estranged wife reach settlement in divorce case . July 31, 2023 . Associated Press News . July 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731024641/https://apnews.com/general-news-55a6332d59e947dca5cf6ef2ac795954 . live .
  12. Virginia Chamlee (12 January 2022) Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden's Ex, to Address Their Divorce in Book: 'I Lost My Sense of Who I Was' . People . November 26, 2022.
  13. News: Heil . Emily . 9 March 2017 . Hunter and Kathleen Biden look to head off contentious divorce in new court filing . Washington Post . July 31, 2023 . October 17, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211017134458/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/03/09/hunter-and-kathleen-biden-look-to-head-off-contentious-divorce-in-new-court-filing/ . live .
  14. Web site: June 1, 2022 . Biden's ex daughter-in-law opens up about marriage to Hunter . November 26, 2022 . . November 26, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221126012625/https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/bidens-ex-daughter-in-law-opens-up-about-marriage-to-hunter/ . live .
  15. News: Epstein . Jake . 14 June 2022 . Kathleen Buhle says ex-husband Hunter Biden always knew 'the benefit and advantage' of being from a 'prominent family' . Yahoo! News . November 26, 2022 . July 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230731030125/https://news.yahoo.com/kathleen-buhle-says-ex-husband-141254277.html . live .
  16. First Look at Kathleen Buhle's Memoir: Hunter Biden's Ex on His Affair with Sister-in-Law — and Forgiveness . November 26, 2022 . People.
  17. Westfall . Sandra Sobieraj . 1 June 2022 . First Look at Kathleen Buhle's Memoir: Hunter Biden's Ex on His Affair with Sister-in-Law — and Forgiveness . July 31, 2023 . People.
  18. News: Bennett . Kate . June 14, 2022 . Hunter Biden's ex-wife Kathleen Buhle says she had no knowledge of ex-husband's financial dealings . November 26, 2022 . CNN . November 26, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221126012635/https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/hunter-biden-kathleen-buhle-finances/index.html . live .
  19. Web site: Kathleen Buhle . Penguin Random House . July 31, 2023 .
  20. Web site: June 14, 2022 . Hunter Biden's ex-wife speaks out about 24-year marriage in 1st TV interview . July 31, 2023 . WTVD.

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