Lunden Roberts has demanded Hunter Biden be thrown in jail after he allegedly failed to fulfill their child support agreement, according to a Jan. 13 motion filed with the Circuit Court of Independence County, Arkansas.
The same motion states that Biden’s child support obligation was reduced in 2023 at his request, and as a result, he was ordered to give Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter he shares with Lunden Roberts, “a specified number of paintings he had created and that she selected.” The paintings were considered child support as Biden’s paintings were considered valuable while his father Joe Biden was the sitting U.S. president.
Biden proposed the arrangement after Roberts showed up unannounced at his deposition in Little Rock, Arkansas, with artwork that their daughter had made for him. Biden suggested he and Navy Joan get to know each other and bond over their shared love of art, according to the same motion. While Biden began to build a relationship with the child and talked to her during a series of scheduled calls, he purportedly ghosted her after her mother released a memoir in 2024.Roberts discussed her relationship with Biden in her memoir, “but neither disparaged nor derided him,” the motion states. Roberts said her daughter has not heard from Biden since. Roberts also said she has contacted Biden to discuss their child, but he has allegedly refused to respond.
The motion further states Navy Joan has received some paintings, but they were selected by Biden, and not her, which violates the proposed arrangement. “The defendant should be incarcerated in the Independence County Detention Center as a criminal penalty for flaunting the dignity and authority of this court,” the motion reads in part. Additionally, Roberts has requested an increase in child support that matches the support Biden gives to his other children.
Biden and Roberts reached a court-approved child support settlement in 2023. He reportedly previously paid $20,000 a month to support their daughter, Navy Joan. Roberts wanted their daughter to take Biden’s last name, but the child retained her mother’s last name as part of the 2023 arrangement.
Roberts first took Biden to court in 2019 after he refused to acknowledge the child’s paternity. A DNA test confirmed Biden was the father.
Roberts reportedly worked at a D.C. strip club that Biden frequented.
