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The child’s mother was offered $250,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement and adopt Navy Joan as a “single parent”

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent for Dailymail.Com in Washington, DC

17:11 04 Jul 2024, updated 17:49 04 Jul 2024



Hunter Biden’s lawyer offered Lunden Roberts money to try to keep their illegitimate child a secret, his upcoming book claims.

In Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden, Lunden recalls the moment her lawyer informed her in 2019 that Hunter was willing to pay $250,000 to stay out of Navy Joan’s, now 5, life.

In the story, Lunden recounts how he met and then casually dated Hunter while he was addicted to crack — and how he treated her with neglect once he found out she was pregnant with his baby in 2018.

But then there was the moment when she described how she had never felt “so much grief and anger at the same time.”

And it was the Biden family who tried to buy his silence.

Lunden Roberts (right) and her daughter Navy Joan (left) pose for a photo on the beach. She claims in her book that Hunter’s lawyer offered her $250,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement not to discuss Hunter’s positive paternity test
Lunden Roberts is pictured leaving court in December 2019 amid her paternity case with Hunter Biden, which she discussed in her upcoming article. She said Hunter’s team wanted her to “adopt as a single parent” Navy

In 2019, a DNA test conducted at an Oklahoma City facility proved that Hunter was the father of Lunden’s daughter, Navy Joan.

“Now that paternity was established, I thought Hunter would try to get closer to his daughter, but nothing happened,” Lunden recalls.

She then received a call from her lawyer, Clint Lancaster.

DailyMail.com has obtained an advance copy of Lunden Roberts’ upcoming memoir, Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden

Hunter, Lancaster told him, “claims to be broke.”

Lunden said he told his lawyer that he didn’t care.

“We just proved he’s the father, and the first thing he says is, ‘I’m broke.’ How about, ‘I’m sorry?’ How about taking responsibility for your child?” she thought. “I don’t care if you’re broke, and your child won’t care either. All she wants is a father.”

But then Lancaster dropped a “bombshell”.

“But that’s not the most important thing,” his lawyer said. “He wants to know if you would like to adopt Navy as a single parent?”

Lunden immediately became angry.

“Adopt him? Are you kidding me? So he has no obligations and is avoiding his responsibilities?” she asked.

Lancaster answered yes.

“They even asked you if you wanted to sign a confidentiality agreement not to discuss the results,” Lunden’s lawyer replied.

The young mother didn’t want it.

“Oh, of course not. They can just shove that confidentiality agreement up their ass and their fucking offer,” she told Lancaster.

“Hunter has hurt me before, but this is a new hurt, a mother’s pain for her daughter, my heart breaking for her,” Lunden recalled of how he felt at the time.

Lancaster then claimed that Hunter’s team gave him a sum of money.

“They said he was willing to add $250,000 to the deal,” Lunden’s lawyer said.

Lunden Roberts’ attorney Clint Lancaster is pictured outside Independence County Courthouse in Batesville, Arkansas in May 2023

Lunden said his jaw dropped to the floor when he heard that.

“How can you put a number on your own daughter?” I asked. “What the hell is this, Clint? He wants to walk away. He wants to stay silent, not be a father, and continue to humiliate me in public,” Lunden wrote.

Before establishing paternity, Hunter had slandered Lunden in the press, denying to the New Yorker that they ever had sexual relations.

Hunter now wanted legal permission to continue this denial.

Lancaster asked Lunden how she wanted to proceed.

“I wanted to do this the best way I could so I wouldn’t hurt him, but fuck him,” she told her lawyer. “Tell him I told him to eat shit, you son of a bitch. Do what you have to do.”

Lancaster said he would file a motion with the court to establish paternity, with Lunden telling the attorney she did not need to review it.

Hunter Biden (left) married Melissa Cohen (right), his second wife, who was pregnant with baby Beau amid Lunden Roberts’ paternity battle in 2019

“No, I’m sick of this shit. Chew it up and spit it out. I don’t care about the details,” Lunden said.

“I hang up the phone and look at my daughter sleeping on the bed. As I stroke Navy’s blonde curls, I can’t hold back the tears,” she recalls. “How could anyone not want this perfect angel?”

When the motion was filed, there was one detail that Lunden and Lancaster had overlooked.

They did it on current President Joe Biden’s birthday.

“It turns out we filed the court documents with the DNA test results on November 20th, Joe’s birthday, and we didn’t know that,” she admitted.

“I look so intriguing,” she wrote.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.

Out of the Shadows will be released on August 20th.