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Ashley Biden’s past is full of weed and wild parties

A decade before a friend came forward trying to sell a video that he claimed showed her snorting cocaine, Vice President Joseph Biden’s daughter was busted for pot possession.

Ashley Biden “was a hot freshman that every guy wanted to be with,” said Nat Berman, a Tulane University classmate, who said he bailed Ashley out of jail after her 1999 marijuana arrest in New Orleans, for which no conviction was recorded.

“She was very attractive.

“Everybody at Tulane knew that she was a party girl,” Berman said. “She wore some pretty short shorts — a lot.”

Berman, 30, wrote on his blog, Uncoached.com, after Joseph Biden’s election as vice president last November about Ashley’s partying.

Berman told The Post that Ashley — currently a social worker at a Delaware child welfare agency — called him in September 1999 to say she was “on her way over” to his off-campus home “to hang out.”





An hour or so later, after she didn’t show up, Berman said, he received a call from Ashley, who “said she was in jail.”

“She was freaking out. She was like, ‘I’m in this cell,’ ” Berman recalled. “She was not happy.”

Berman said he paid a bail bondsman “between $200 and $400” to bail Ashley out, and then drove her home.

New Orleans court records confirm Ashley’s September 1999 marijuana-possession arrest but do not detail any conviction.

Ashley, 27, is now at the center of a scandal rocking Washington and Delaware, which her anti-drug dad had represented as US senator for decades prior to being elected as President Obama’s vice president.





Recently, a man claiming to be a “friend” of Ashley’s had two lawyers speak to The Post — and other media outlets — offering for sale a videotape that he claimed was made earlier this month during a Delaware house party.

On a 90-second clip from the video that The Post viewed, a young woman strongly resembling Ashley is seen taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder. The camera follows the woman from a few feet away, focusing on her as she moves about the room.

At one point, the woman shouts, “Shut the f- – – up!”





The Post did not buy the videotape but published a story about it yesterday.

Since then, the White House and spokesmen for Joseph Biden have refused to return repeated requests for comment.

Security at the vice president’s Wilmington, Del., home — where Ashley is believed to have sought refuge — told a Post reporter to get lost.

Joseph Biden is scheduled to meet with Central American leaders in Costa Rica today.

Yesterday, lawyer Thomas Dunlap said he had quit representing the video’s owner, but declined to comment further.

RadarOnline.com reported that Dunlap quit because of circumstances surrounding publicity about the video.

The website also reported that the video was shot with a hidden camera.

Additional reporting by Adam Nichols in Wilmington, Del.





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