DADDY’S ART , IF NOT HEART
Hunter OKs baby mama’s pix deal
Thanks for the art, dad. First Son Hunter Biden is coloring his Arkansas child support case closed after settling a longrunning 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.
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 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 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 to 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.”
Hunter has publicly pursued his art career while under a years-long federal investigation for tax and gun crimes in his native Delaware.
Hush-hush on price
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 that his child support liabilities should be reduced due to changes in his “financial circumstances,” prompting Roberts 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 first son was facing a July 10 contempt hearing, as a judge believed he was stonewalling Roberts’ push for financial details.
Hunter has claimed to have no memory of meeting Roberts, but texts from his abandoned laptop showed that she was on his payroll while pregnant and a paternity test proved he was Navy’s father.