Ashley Biden, the 44-year-old daughter of President Joe Biden, has filed to divorce her husband of 13 years, Dr. Howard Krein, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The filing was made Monday in Philadelphia.
Krein, 59, is a plastic surgeon and otolaryngologist at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The two married in 2012 in Greenville, Delaware, at the church where Ashley was baptized. They met in 2010 through Ashley’s late brother, Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015.
Social Media Sends a Message
Ashley marked the filing with a since-deleted Instagram story showing her walking through a park giving a thumbs up to Beyoncé’s “Freedom.” She also reposted a quote reading, “New life, means new boundaries. New ways of being that won’t look or sound like they did before,” accompanied by Lauryn Hill’s Freedom Time.
Life in Philadelphia
The couple lived in a $1.3 million home in Philadelphia. Ashley, who has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania, has worked in criminal justice reform.
During the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Ashley recalled her father’s personal touch