Ashley Biden's secret lover was a violent junkie who went to prison

Ashley Biden had a torrid affair with a violent junkie who terrorized his family and stole from friends before succumbing to a fatal drug overdose, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The President's daughter, 42, who turned up at a Delaware court Monday to support her half-brother Hunter – praised Eric Dengler's 'style and swag' after falling for him during a stint in rehab – writing in her diary: 'He is a great kisser. And he is calming + sweet.'

Ashley recalls in the diary how she was always 'boy crazy' and how she had '[sexual intercourse] with friends @ a young age'. She wrote of affairs with two men when she was in rehab. 'I don't know if I even need to kiss a guy – just come over and f*** me – sober,' she writes at one point. One of the men she hooked up with was Dengler (pictured). 'He is a surfer – not highly educated – barely knows his grammar/ but he does know how to love,' she wrote. But the 6ft 6in con's former victims remember him as a brazen criminal who spent a total of six years in Florida prisons for robbery, drug trafficking and theft. 'All he cared about was surfing and getting wasted,' scoffed one former acquaintance. 'That guy was a danger to himself and others.'

Dengler's lifestyle caught up with him in April last year when he was found dead at age 39 after overdosing on a cocktail of fentanyl, oxycodone and morphine. Dengler (pictured) was one of two lovers Ashley wrote about in the diary. The other is a wealthy, married businessman who she identifies as 'Kevin'. Ashley hooked up with the men while she was undergoing treatment for drug and [sexual intercourse] addiction in 2019 in a rehab in Boca Raton, Florida.

The First Daughter detailed the flings in a diary that was later stolen from a house in Florida where she was staying and has been published online. Ashley – the only child from Joe and Jill Biden's marriage – has confirmed in a court filing that the tell-all tome is authentic. Dengler, who lived in Stuart, Florida, was only 21 when he was first sent to prison in 2004, serving a four-year stretch for trafficking in illegal drugs. Three months after his November 2008 release, he turned up at his sister Julie's house in Orlando demanding money to buy drugs.

When her boyfriend kicked him out, Dengler (pictured) got into his car and sped towards the house, only slamming on the brakes at the last second. 'I kicked him out of the house because I'd had enough of his crap. That's when things got crazy,' Julie's ex recalled in an interview with DailyMail.com. 'He got in the car, jumped the curb and drove straight at me. I didn't move because there was so much adrenaline in my system I didn't think about the consequences. He was only a few inches away from slamming into the front door when he stopped. It was real close.' The terrifying stunt saw Dengler charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a law enforcement officer for resisting arrest. The ex, who asked to be referred to only by his first name, Rafael, said he would typically show up and threaten his sister when he needed money for a fix. 'He was always f****d up on heroin or molly. I never saw him sober. The guy was a bum, he never had a job,' Rafael said. 

'He had anger issues also. The cops would get called because he was screaming and hollering at his sister. It was pure hell to be around it all.' The fracas earned Dengler 15 months behind bars. Weeks later the tattooed felon was charged again over a separate battery and robbery incident, bringing the total to 18 months. Dengler was found dead in his Delray Beach apartment on April 6 last year wearing nothing but a pair of red socks and with a syringe clutched in his hand, according to an autopsy report obtained by DailyMail.com. His girlfriend Gianna Correia told cops he was a heroin user and had survived two previous overdoses in March 2016.

Between dozens of arrests and various prison stints, Dengler set up a car and boat detailing business but the venture appeared to be short lived. By 2013 he had violated his probation and was sent back to jail for rifling through a roommate's jewelry collection and callously pawning her diamond charm and antique gold bracelet. But to former social worker Ashley Biden, Dengler was 'refreshing' and 'calming'. 'Started hanging out with a new guy, Eric, who has been through a lot and is clean + sober these days,' she wrote on February 4. 'He lives in Florida. And he is so cute… has his own style and swag. It's been refreshing to be able to kiss another man – he is a great kisser. And he is calming + sweet. I can tell we both could fall for one another – and that's a little scary but taking it day by day b/c ya never know what the future holds.'

The diary goes on to hint that Ashley was contemplating a future with Dengler when she moved to Florida around that time, although she admonishes herself by declaring: 'Don't move for a man.' She also wondered if her father's impending Presidential run would scupper the fledgling romance, writing: 'If Dad runs it truly messes up everything with homeboy.' At another point she said of Dengler: 'I so wish I could see him tonight – just lay with him but it will be too late + I need to prepare myself for him abruptly walking away.' Dengler's mother, Carol Price, who moved to Lubbock, Texas, after her son's death, refused to discuss his life, telling a DailyMail.com reporter: 'You cannot speak of my son any longer. He is deceased.' Asked if she knew if he had had a relationship with the President's daughter, she added: 'I have no comment on that.'

Ashley wrote about [sexual intercourse] and drug addiction, cheating on her husband, and childhood trauma – including 'showers with my dad' – in the diary which covers a period from January to September 2019. She wrote about her unhealthy relationship with  and how she believed it stemmed from traumatic incidents in her childhood'. 'I have always been boy crazy,' she wrote. 'Hyper-sexualized @ a young age. What is this due to? Was I [sexually abused]. I think so – I can't remember specifics but I do remember trauma. I remember having [sexual intercourse] with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate).' Ashley devoted several pages of the diary to her affair with the second man, Kevin, describing an 'instant yet unattainable attraction' to him, an initial flirtatious text conversation, then a secret meeting with 'magic' kissing and 'mind blowing [sexual intercourse]'. Pictured: Ashley's wedding to Dr. Howard Krein in 2012.

But Kevin's commitments encroached on the budding love affair, Ashley wrote. 'Towards the end your wife called and you rushed to kick me out of the car,' the diary entry said. 'I smoked a cigarette while you sat in the car talking to her – and I remember thinking this is a disaster.' Ashley wrote that she 'didn't want to be a mistress + honestly didn't want to be 'that' woman to your wife,' but revealed they continued 'sending each other pictures' and '[texting sexually] at 5am'. As they both battled with feelings of guilt, they both relapsed. Ashley wrote she 'broke down + numbed my feelings in cocaine' and she wrote that Kevin texted her 'you haven't left my mind. I relapsed.' Ashley wrote that Kevin was 'like a drug' and '[sexual intercourse] was incredible for the first time in a long time', but that she was 'feeling used, an innocent victim in your twisted/wicked games'.

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