Kathleen Buhle | |
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.jpg) Buhle in 2014 | |
| Born | Kathleen Anne Buhle c. 1969 (age 55–56) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Other names | Kathleen Biden |
| Education | Saint Mary's University of Minnesota |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, lobbyist, investment manager, non-profit executive |
| Organization | The House at 1229 |
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| Children | 3 |
Kathleen Anne Buhle (bornc. 1969), formerly known asKathleen Biden, 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 memoirIf We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing, which details her life while married toHunter Biden, a son of 46th U.S. PresidentJoe Biden.
Kathleen Anne Buhle was born inChicago, Illinois, into a middle-classCatholic family.[1][2] Her mother, Roberta Buhle,[3] was a schoolteacher and her father James F. Buhle was a salesman for theChicago White Sox.[4][5] She was educated in Catholic schools and graduated fromSaint Mary's University of Minnesota, with a degree in psychology.[2][6][7]
Buhle worked as a high school guidance and admissions counselor.[8] In July 1992, (at age 23) she metHunter Biden, son of then-senatorJoe Biden andNeilia Hunter Biden, while the two were working asJesuit volunteers at a Catholic church inPortland, Oregon.[9][5][7] Buhle and Biden began a relationship a few months after meeting, and she became pregnant three months into their relationship.[citation needed]
They married in July 1993, and she gave birth to their first daughter, Naomi King Biden, on December 21, 1993. Biden and Buhle moved toWashington, D.C., where her husband was a law student atGeorgetown University. The family later settled inWilmington, Delaware, and, in 1997, bought an estate dating back before theAmerican Revolution. Buhle's brother-in-law,Beau Biden, moved in with them while he worked as a federal prosecutor inPhiladelphia. 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.[10] The family moved back toWashington, D.C., and rented a house inTenleytown. When her father-in-law and step-mother-in-lawJill Biden were respectively serving as vice president and second lady of the United States, Buhle became close friends with First LadyMichelle Obama.[5]
In 2015, Buhle and Biden formally separated due to Biden's infidelity,[8][7] 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 theSuperior Court of the District of Columbia, seeking to freeze Biden's assets.[5][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 titledIf 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]
Buhle lives in Washington, D.C.[17]
In 2019, Buhle was diagnosed withcolon cancer. By 2022, she was cancer-free.[20]
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