New York Post

HUNTER AND THE STRIPPER

Mom suing Biden’s son for paternity met him while working as a dancer named ‘Dallas’

- By JOE MARINO, ELIZABETH ROSNER, SARA NATHAN and BRUCE GOLDING erosner@nypost.com

Lunden Alexis Roberts, the woman suing Hunter Biden for paternity, was a stripper at a Washington, DC, club, sources told The Post. Hunter frequented clubs and allegedly used drugs while making $ 5 0,0 0 0 a mont h from a Ukrainian gas company — at the same time his father was serving as vice president.

The woman suing Hunter Biden for paternity was a stripper at a Washington, DC, club he frequented around the time he was dating his brother’s widow, sources told The Post.

Biden was repeatedly seen at the Mpire Club in the capital’s historic Dupont Circle neighborho­od — where Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of his alleged love child, worked under the stage name “Dallas,” the sources said.

“He was well-known,” a source said of Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic front-runner to challenge President Trump next year.

Several Mpire workers said they recognized Roberts, 28, who last week filed court papers that say DNA testing proved Hunter, 49, fathered the child she bore in August 2018.

Roberts worked there around the time she got pregnant — and when Hunter broke up with former sister-in-law Hallie Biden, the widow of his brother, Beau Biden, sources said.

Roberts’ husband-and-wife lawyers, Clint and Jennifer Lancaster, didn’t return repeated phone and e-mail messages seeking comment. A receptioni­st at their Benton, Ark., law firm said, “They got them.”

Hunter’s lawyers declined to comment.

The Mpire Club is about three blocks north of another DC strip joint, Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club, where The Post previously revealed that workers suspected Hunter, who has a history of alcoholism and addiction, of smoking crack in a VIP room in late 2018.

In a New Yorker profile published on July 1, Hunter claimed he hadn’t been to a strip club in years before Page Six exclusivel­y revealed his relationsh­ip with Hallie and details of a divorce filing against him by then-wife Kathleen Biden.

After the Page Six exposé was published on March 1, 2017, Hunter said, “I went directly to a strip club. I said, ‘F--k them,’ ” according to The New Yorker.

The incident at Archibald’s —

which came after Hunter’s mostrecent admitted drug use, a crack binge during the fall of 2016 — occurred while he sat on the board of the Ukrainian naturalgas company Burisma.

The job, for which Hunter was reportedly paid $50,000 a month, is a critical part of the ongoing impeachmen­t inquiry against Trump.

Democrats allege that the president used nearly $400 million in military aid as leverage to try to force Ukraine to investigat­e Hunter and his dad.

Trump denies any quid pro quo.

Archibald’s is located around the corner from the five-star St. Regis Washington, DC, hotel, where a valet recalled Hunter staying there “many times.”

When shown a photo of Roberts and asked if she ever went there with Hunter, the valet replied, “Honestly I can’t say, but Hunter Biden has been here with brunettes and blondes.”

Mpire workers said they were unable to recognize a photo of Biden, although a bartender said she may have seen him there.

An Mpire floor manager named Veronica declined to comment beyond saying angrily, “We don’t confirm or deny any informatio­n.”

Roberts’ former co-workers had only good things to say about the single mom, a native of rural Batesville, Ark.

“She was really sweet,” the bartender said.

An Mpire dancer also recalled working with “Dallas,” saying, “She has a heart of gold and is a smarty-pants.”

At least four Mpire workers follow Roberts’ private Instagram account, their accounts show.

Roberts filed her paternity suit against Hunter in May, less than two weeks after he married second wife Melissa Cohen following a whirlwind, six-day romance.

In his New Yorker profile, Hunter denied having had sex with Roberts, but agreed in October to undergo DNA testing.

Roberts’ recent court filing says Hunter is “not expected to challenge the results of the DNA test or the testing process.”

Roberts graduated from Arkansas State University in 2014 and enrolled at George Washington University in DC to pursue a certificat­e program in forensic investigat­ion.

She attended classes during the summer and fall semesters of 2015 but did not graduate, a university spokesman said.

Her mom, Kimberly Joan Roberts, was apparently unaware that her daughter had dropped out. On March 5, 2017, the mom told a friend on Facebook that her daughter “is in DC getting her masters in FBI CSI working for the FBI and CSI also.”

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 ??  ?? SLEAZY SAGA: Lunden Alexis Roberts (above), who worked under the stage name “Dallas,” is suing Hunter Biden (top left with dad Joe), claiming he’s the father of her love child, who was conceived around the time she stripped at DC’s Mpire, which Hunter frequented. He also was a regular at Archibald’s, another area strip club near the St. Regis hotel (far left), where he stayed.
SLEAZY SAGA: Lunden Alexis Roberts (above), who worked under the stage name “Dallas,” is suing Hunter Biden (top left with dad Joe), claiming he’s the father of her love child, who was conceived around the time she stripped at DC’s Mpire, which Hunter frequented. He also was a regular at Archibald’s, another area strip club near the St. Regis hotel (far left), where he stayed.
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