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Hunter Biden’s memoir ‘Beautiful Things’ is arriving in April

Hunter Biden inked a secret deal for a tell-all memoir about his famous family and battle with substance abuse — and it will be released less than three months into his father’s presidency.

The embattled son of President Biden signed the hush-hush contract with Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in the fall of 2019, the publisher announced Thursday.

Plans for the book, to be titled “Beautiful Things,” were kept under wraps even as Hunter’s business dealings roiled the 2020 presidential campaign and became the subject of a federal investigation.

It’s set to be released on April 6.

“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter writes, according to a snippet released by Gallery.

Details of Hunter’s memoir emerged after the president pledged Wednesday that none of his family members would benefit from his presidency — or be involved in “any government undertaking or foreign policy.” 

Hunter has been accused of trying to sell access to his prominent father to businessmen, while Joe’s brother, Frank, touted the president’s name in an ad for his law firm on Inauguration Day.

The ad was released after Joe previously warned his younger brother on the campaign trail to avoid any business deals that might mar the family. 

“For Christ’s sake, watch yourself,” he warned.

“Don’t get sucked into something that would, first of all, hurt you.”

Hunter is the oldest surviving child of President Joe Biden.
Hunter is the oldest surviving child of President Joe Biden. AP/Nick Wass

During a briefing Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked if Hunter’s book was subject to pre-clearance review by federal officials.

Psaki didn’t answer directly but said, “I do have a statement from Joe and Jill Biden in their personal capacity as parents: ‘We admire our son Hunter’s strength and courage to talk openly about his addiction so that others might see themselves in his journey and find hope.'”

“This is a personal book about his own personal journey and I will leave it at that,” Psaki added.

Hunter, who turned 51 on Thursday, has plenty of fodder for a confessional memoir, including at least six stints in rehab for alcoholism and addiction that included a crack binge in 2016.

Hunter’s drug problems helped blow up his marriage to Kathleen Buhle — with whom he has three daughters — and he engaged in a scandalous relationship with his late brother’s widow after they separated.

In 2019, The Post exclusively revealed that Hunter was suspected of smoking crack inside a Washington, D.C., strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits.

The Post also revealed that he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with a former DC stripper who later successfully sued him for paternity in Arkansas.

More recently, The Post in October exposed some of the contents of a laptop computer that Hunter allegedly dropped off for repair at a shop in Delaware in April 2019 and never retrieved.

Emails stored on the hard drive show that he introduced a top Burisma executive to his father, then vice president, less than a year before the elder Biden admittedly pressured Ukrainian officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.

In other emails, Hunter discussed business deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he called “interesting for me and my family.”

The water-damaged MacBook Pro also contained highly personal photos and recordings, including an explicit, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman.

The laptop was seized by the FBI in December 2019, and Hunter revealed late last year that he’s under federal investigation for possible tax fraud — with NBC News later saying an email shows he failed to report $400,000 in income from Burisma in 2014 to the IRS.

Hunter is the oldest surviving child of the president, who lost his first wife and 1-year-old daughter Naomi in a 1972 car crash that left Hunter and Beau seriously injured.

Beau — a former federal prosecutor and US Army captain who was twice elected Delaware attorney general — died of brain cancer in 2015.

The president has frequently defended his troubled younger son, including during his first debate with then-President Donald Trump, who repeatedly referenced Hunter’s overseas dealings and brought up his discharge from the US Naval Reserve for testing positive for cocaine.

“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem. He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son,” Joe Biden said.

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts. AP/Andrew Harnik

The financial terms for “Beautiful Things” were not disclosed. The memoir was written in collaboration with author and journalist Drew Jubera.

It’s garnered some early praise from authors including Stephen King, Dave Eggers and Anne Lamott.

“In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves again that anybody — even the son of a United States President — can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley,” King writes in his blurb.

“Biden remembers it all and tells it all with a bravery that is both heartbreaking and quite gorgeous. He starts with a question: Where’s Hunter? The answer is he’s in this book, the good, the bad, and the beautiful.”

With Post wires