First daughter Ashley Biden, daughter to current US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden , is no stranger to making headlines – despite her aversion to the spotlight. Per the New York Post, during her university days, she was known for her wild partying and struggles with substance abuse . She made headlines again in December after it was revealed she owed just over US$5,000 in income taxes dating back to 2015.
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Photo: Howard Krein/Facebook With her dad’s surprise exit from the 2024 presidential race and subsequent endorsement of new Democrat presidential nominee, Vice-President Kamala Harris, we can only expect further scrutiny of the Biden family. During her time in the spotlight, Ashley has had her husband, Howard Krein, standing by her side. The couple have been married since 2012 and, though they prefer to maintain a low profile, Krein has firmly entrenched himself with his in-laws.
Here is everything you need to know about Joe Biden’s son-in-law. How did Ashley Biden and Howard Krein meet? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Ashley Biden and her husband, Howard Krein, on their wedding day in 2012.
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jpg"} Ashley Biden and her husband, Howard Krein, on their wedding day in 2012. Photo: @WillJohnston/Twitter According to The Times of Israel, Krein, 58, was introduced to Ashley, 43, by her late half-brother, Beau Biden , in 2010. The publication reported that Krein proposed at sunset on a cliff in Big Sur, California, a year after they first met.
The couple got married in June 2012 at the Delaware church where Ashley was baptised as a child. They exchanged vows in an interfaith wedding ceremony that honoured the bride’s Catholicism as well as the groom’s Jewish faith. What does Howard Krein do for work? {"@context":"https://schema.
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His brother, Steven Krein, reportedly founded StartUp Health in 2011 and Howard serves as the chief medical officer of the organisation. Krein is currently an associate professor of otolaryngology at the Center for Digital Health and Data Science at Thomas Jefferson University. Krein studied at Rutgers University before receiving his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
He also got a PhD in cell and developmental biology from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He’s firmly on Team Biden {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Joe Biden is sworn in as vice-president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as his family, including daughter Ashley Biden and son-in-law Howard Krein, look on.
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jpg"} Joe Biden is sworn in as vice-president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as his family, including daughter Ashley Biden and son-in-law Howard Krein, look on. Photo: AP Photo Krein has become firmly entrenched in the Biden family over the years. He’s no stranger to playing a medical advisory role to his father-in-law, having previously been an adviser to the Cancer Moonshot initiative, per the White House website.
The project began after Beau died of brain cancer in 2015. Cancer Moonshot aims to mobilise researchers across the US to prevent cancer before it starts. Per The New York Times, Krein also advised Joe’s presidential campaign on its healthcare policies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Why did Howard Krein once spark controversy? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Howard Krein on stage with his mother-in-law, current first lady Jill Biden, at the StartUp Health Festival in 2019. Photo: @KreinMD/X","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @KreinMD/X In 2021, Krein faced ethical questions over whether he leveraged his private relationship with his in-laws in a professional setting. ABC News reported that Hari Prasad, the CEO of tech firm Yosi Health, asked Krein and StartUp Health to introduce its software to US government health officials. The software focused on streamlining Covid-19 vaccination efforts.
Commenting on the apparent conflict of interest, Robert Weissman, president of the liberal watchdog group Public Citizen, told CNN at the time that “the potential problems are real” and urged Joe and the rest of his family to cease discussing health policy with Klein. However, Jennifer Hankin, StartUp Health’s chief of staff, told the same publication that Krein doesn’t “advise or assist companies on obtaining government contracts”, while the White House added that it has a robust system in place to address possible conflicts of interest. Did Ashley Biden really have an extramarital affair? {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/07/23/27c7f4b0-17e8-4c62-a788-5c93a1254a77_9dd6eb28.jpg"} First daughter Ashley Biden speaks on stage at the 2024 Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles in March. Photo: AFP Earlier this year, a woman named Aimee Harris pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell a diary purportedly belonging to Ashley, per The New York Times.
Harris tried to sell the diary to Project Veritas, a far-right activist group. Although the contents of the diary have not been verified, some British media reports claimed that Biden wrote about her supposed marriage problems with Krein, even detailing an affair that she allegedly had in 2019. Harris was sentenced to one month in jail and three years of supervised release.
In a letter to the court, Ashley wrote that she was traumatised by the details of her personal life being made available online: “I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online. Repeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.” Ashley Biden is no stranger to drama, from her previous substance abuse struggles to alleged excerpts from her diary being posted online, where she reportedly details marriage struggles and an affair Her husband Howard Krein is a long-time adviser to President Joe Biden, who just dropped out of the 2024 US presidential race – but once landed in hot water over conflicts of interest.
