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Lunden Roberts once hoped her daughter might forge a bond with Hunter Biden through shared sketches and stories — now she's asking a judge to lock him up for allegedly ghosting the little girl and flouting a court deal over his paintings.

The former stripper and mother of Biden's seven‑year‑old Navy Joan Roberts has reignited a bitter child support row in Arkansas, painting the president's scandal‑plagued son as a 'classless' dad who only acts under threat of jail.

Roberts, 34, reopened the 2019 paternity case last week, claiming Biden, 55, has ignored her pleas for him to talk to Navy despite their mutual love of art. 'Ms. Roberts has reached out to Mr. Biden numerous times about [their daughter] asking to speak with him, but the defendant, in classic, classless form, refused to respond,' her lawyers wrote in filings.

Navy, denied by Biden until a court‑ordered DNA test confirmed paternity, had begun building a connection — chatting on calls, swapping drawings — until Roberts published a memoir about their fling. The book 'neither disparaged nor derided' him, yet Biden 'ghosted' his 'sweet, little' girl, leaving her heartbroken, the papers allege.

Lunden Roberts Demands Jail Time For 'Classless' Hunter Biden Art Betrayal

The flashpoint is Biden's artwork, promised as part of a 2023 settlement slashing his monthly support from $20,000 to $5,000. He agreed to hand over a 'specified number of paintings he had created and she had selected', meant to be Navy's 'only real connection to her father and his side of the family.'

Roberts says some arrived, but 'they were the ones chosen by Mr. Biden', not her daughter — breaching the order and dashing hopes of a father‑daughter tie over canvases once fetching five figures during Joe Biden's presidency.

Navy and Biden bonded creatively: she sent him her own pieces, moving him to tears at a deposition in a 'simple, pure act of love.' Roberts wants the judge to enforce the deal, arguing the art — now devalued post‑White House — is Navy's sole paternal legacy.

'He only tends to act in this case when he has to do so,' her suit blasts, as per the National Enquirer, seeking contempt charges and possible incarceration to force compliance.

Biden's team fired back on 29 January, moving to dismiss: no court mandated chats, so ghosting is 'irrelevant', and paintings need only total 30 by an unspecified deadline — 'even if no paintings had been given to the Child thus far'. They insist the 2023 pact closed the matter, slamming Roberts' bid to hike support amid Biden's 'lavish lifestyle' as baseless.

Lunden Roberts Demands Jail Time For 'Classless' Hunter Biden Memoir Fallout

Roberts' memoir, Out of the Shadows, detailed their 2018 hookup and Navy's lonely start — born amid Biden's crack addiction and denials. It spared him direct slams, but Roberts blames it for the cutoff, saying Navy grasped her half‑sibling isolation at a family wedding, sparking 'emotional trauma.'

Dropped was her push for the Biden name; now she eyes more support, citing Navy's exclusion from Jill Biden's grandkids' books and Joe's public snubs until 2023.

The stakes are wrenching for Navy, raised in Arkansas far from DC glamour, grappling with a dad whose life screams chaos: federal gun conviction as a drug addict, tax evasion guilty plea, hooker scandals, and a pre‑inauguration pardon from Joe.

Roberts, an 'old‑fashioned Arkansas Democrat' who voted Biden in 2020, once battled suicidal thoughts post‑birth, penning notes before Navy's cry pulled her back. She sees jail as the only prod for Biden, who 'feigned guilt and remorse' to cut payments while dodging calls.

This isn't abstract legalese — it's a child's ache for absent arms, art as surrogate love, a mum fighting for scraps of family. Arkansas Judge Kathleen Phillips will decide if contempt fits; Biden's retort calls Navy's feelings moot. For Roberts, it's justice for a girl caught in America's most infamous family feud.