Who is Ashley Biden? First daughter who owes thousands in taxes

First daughter Ashley Biden has been no stranger to scandal as she grew up with her father Joe’s political career, watching him serve for nearly five decades in the Senate and eventually becoming both vice president and president of the United States.

The 42-year-old is now back in the news after it was revealed on Dec. 18 that she owes $5,000 in income taxes dating back to 2015.

The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Philadelphia County notified the younger Biden that the “amount of such unpaid tax, interest, additions or penalties is a lien in favor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon the taxpayer’s property – real, personal, or both – as the case may be,” according to a recent tax lien docket obtained by The Post.

Here’s what we know about Ashley Biden.

Early life

Ashley Biden is the only child of Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and is the half-sister of Hunter Biden and the late Beau Biden.

She was born on June 8, 1981, and attended Wilmington Friends School, a private high school run by the Religious Society of Friends in Delaware.

Ashley Biden received a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Tulane University in New Orleans in 2003, and went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice with a masters degree in social work in 2010.

Originally, Ashley said she wanted to become a therapist — but instead she followed in her father’s footsteps and pursued public policy.

“The only thing my parents always said to me was, ‘Follow your passion,’” Biden told Elle Magazine in March.

“There was never any pressure to go into service, but I saw my mother — a teacher — and my dad, who was working on issues Americans care about.”

Biden served as the executive director at the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 through 2019, when she left to work on her father’s presidential campaign.

Marriage

Biden married Dr. Howard Krein at an interfaith Catholic-Jewish wedding in 2012. The couple had been set up by Beau Biden.

Krein is an otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.

The drug scandal

In 2009, a man claiming to be a “friend” of Ashley Biden was trying to hawk a video he alleged showed her snorting cocaine at a house party, The Post exclusively reported at the time.

A lawyer representing the unidentified man showed The Post about 90 seconds of the 43-minute tape, saying it was legally obtained and that Ashley was aware she was being filmed. The Post refused to pay for the video, which appeared to show Biden taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder.

The dialogue is difficult to discern, but the woman makes repeated references to the drugs, said the lawyers, who said they viewed the tape about 15 times.

“At one point she pretty much complains that the line isn’t big enough,” said one of the lawyers who showed the Post the video, but declined to identify himself. “And she talks about her dad.”

In the aftermath, it was revealed that Biden had been arrested for possession of marijuana while at Tulane, but was never charged.

Her diary gets stolen

During Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign against Donald Trump, the contents of Ashley’s diary made its way into the hands of Project Veritas — a controversial conservative media outlet that rose to prominence by pulling off undercover sting operations against Democratic groups like Planned Parenthood and mainstream media organizations. 

The website, then run by James O’Keefe, did not publish excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary, but another conservative website ran dozens of handwritten pages from it on Oct. 24, 2020, ahead of the presidential election, according to a New York Times report.

The release of the diary got attention for a passage in which Ashley wrote about taking “showers with my dad” as a young girl which were “probably not appropriate.”

Project Veritas obtained the diary from a whistleblower at another news organization that refused to publish information from it. 

The outlet claimed it knew the whereabouts of the actual diary and that the whistleblower had an audio recording of Ashley admitting it belonged to her.

Last year, Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty to stealing the diary.

As part of his plea deal, Kurlander agreed to cooperate with federal investigators who are probing how Project Veritas bought the diary, prosecutors said.