Joe Biden’s Daughter Ashley Biden Files For Divorce

There’s trouble in paradise.

The daughter of Joe Biden has filed for a divorce from her husband after being married for 13 years.

Ashley Biden filed for divorce from her husband, Howard Krein, in a Philadelphia court on Monday.

People reported the inside scoop on the divorce:

Ashley Biden, the daughter of former President Joe Biden and former first lady Dr. Jill Biden, has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband, Dr. Howard Krein, after 13 years of marriage.

On Monday, Aug. 11, Ashley, 44 — who married Krein, 58, on June 2, 2012 — filed the documents in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing her representative.

On the same day, Ashley posted a since-deleted photo of herself walking through a park, giving a thumbs up on her Instagram Stories, while Beyoncé’s “Freedom” played in the background, per the outlet.

The former first daughter had also reposted the quote, “New life, new beginnings means new boundaries. New ways of being that won’t look or sound like they did before,” on Instagram, set to the tune of Ms. Lauryn Hill’s “Freedom Time,” the newspaper noted.

As previously reported by PEOPLE, Ashley and Krein tied the knot at the steepled St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church, in Greenville, Delaware, in a ceremony combining the bride’s Catholic traditions and the groom’s Jewish ones.

Afterward, the newlyweds and around 200 family members and close friends headed to the Biden family’s lakeside home in nearby Wilmington for a reception and dinner served family-style in the backyard.

Here’s a photo of their wedding day:

Former first daughter Ashley Biden files for divorce from husband of 13 years, Dr. Howard Krein https://t.co/tGugqdCrZ5 pic.twitter.com/oFDJtdu9le

— New York Post (@nypost) August 12, 2025

Laura Lommer claims the divorce was due to an affair:

SCOOP:

Source tells me the reason Ashley Biden is getting divorced is because her husband was allegedly having an affair with 2 blonde party girls, and one of the party girls told Ashley this week about the affair, prompting her to file for divorce. https://t.co/utKNWJYkY5

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 12, 2025

Newsweek reported how Biden and Krein first met:

The couple resided in Philadelphia and had no children.

The 44-year-old married the plastic surgeon and otolaryngologist Krein in 2012 after two years of dating.

The couple met through Ashley Biden’s older brother Beau, who passed away from glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, in 2015.

At the time of their marriage, the then-vice president praised their union, telling People magazine: “This is the right guy. And he’s getting a helluva woman.”

Ashley Biden is an activist and social worker who spent 15 years working at the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families, and served as executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019.

Krein works as a professor at Thomas Jefferson University, serves as the senior director of health policy and innovation at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, and is the Chief Medical Officer at StartUp Health.