Hunter Biden child support settlement promises painting, not last name
Thanks for the art, dad.
First son Hunter Biden is coloring his Arkansas child support case closed after settling a long-running dispute with baby mama Lunden Roberts, court records revealed Thursday.
As part of the settlement, Roberts will drop her demand that Hunter, 53, allow the child to take the Biden family name, while the first son will provide — his art.
A bizarre clause in the settlement stipulates that Hunter provide Navy Joan Roberts, 4, with the proceeds from an undisclosed number of his novice works for an undisclosed period of time.
Navy will get one painting to keep for herself, either for her private collection or in “a gallery designated by Lunden Roberts,” while the former stripper will also get to designate a bank account where the earnings from Hunter’s art sales will go.
The settlement also states the paintings “shall vary in size with a minimum size of 24×24.”
The Post was first to report the settlement last week, with a source close to the first son saying Roberts had agreed to a reduced monthly payment of $5,000 from $20,000. Roberts lawyer Clint Lancaster declined to confirm financial details of the settlement, which were not disclosed in the court documents filed Thursday — though Hunter did agree to pay Roberts’ attorney fees and court costs as part of the deal.
“Lunden is a great mom and little Navy is going be fine,” Lancaster told The Post at the time. “The kid has lots of love on the maternal side of the family in Batesville. They are a very, very close family. They adore her and are always going to support her … But I think everybody is disappointed that there’s not more contact [with the Biden family].
“It’s not lost on anybody that Jill Biden wrote a children’s book and [dedicated it] to her grandchildren,” the lawyer went on. “She could have kept it at that, but she named every child except Navy. They hung stockings for the dog at Christmas but not for Navy. That is one of the saddest things.”
Hunter Biden has publicly pursued his art career while under a years-long federal investigation for tax and gun crimes.
In 2021, The Post learned that the first son sold at least five prints for $75,000 apiece, a fraction of the top asking price of $500,000 for a Hunter Biden original.
Hunter had argued last year to the Independence County court that his child support liabilities should be reduced due to changes in his “financial circumstances,” prompting Roberts and Lancaster to demand more details about where the first son was getting his money. That request could have exposed who was buying Hunter’s art, information the White House pledged to keep secret following criticism that the purchases could be another form of Biden family influence-peddling.
The settlement marks the end of a years-long saga that began when Roberts first sought child support from the political scion in 2019.
Hunter Biden once claimed that he had no memory of meeting Roberts, but text messages from his abandoned laptop show that she was on the payroll of his consulting firm while pregnant with Navy.
A paternity test validated Roberts’ claims that Hunter was the father of her child and the younger Biden subsequently agreed to pay $20,000 in monthly child support payments back in 2020.
The first son was staring down a July 10 contempt hearing in the case, as a judge believed he was stonewalling Roberts’s push for financial information.
Roberts previously claimed that the first son “has never seen or contacted” the child and that President Biden and first lady Jill Biden “remain estranged” from the four-year-old, according to court documents from April.
Lunden had also testified to the federal grand jury in the Delaware tax and gun case against her former lover.
Court documents revealed last week that Hunter Biden had reached a plea deal in that legal drama.
As part of the agreement, the first son will plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willful failure to pay his federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018 and enter a pretrial diversion program to expunge a felony count of illegally possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine.
A court hearing on that matter has been slated for July 26 in Wilmington, Del.
