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The divorce of Jill Biden and Bill Stevenson in 1975, including allegations of an affair with Joe Biden
Jill Biden separated from her first husband, Bill (sometimes "Bill Stevenson") in 1974 and divorced in 1975 amid what biographers and reporters describe as a relationship that “did not live up to expe...
The claim that Jill Biden worked as a nanny or babysitter for Joe Biden’s children and was a teenager when she and Joe began a relationship is false: multiple independent fact‑checks and the Bidens’ o...
Contemporary news reporting and biographical summaries consistently state that (then Jill Jacobs) married William “Bill” Stevenson in 1970 and that a civil divorce was finalized in 1975, but none of t...
A viral claim that had been a “” for ’s children first resurfaced on social platforms via posts that paired an old photograph of the couple with inflammatory captions; fact‑checkers traced the core el...
Biographies consistently depict as the who became a central parental figure for and after marrying in 1977, emphasizing that the boys “called her Mom” even though she never formally adopted them . Pro...
’s first husband was William “Bill” Stevenson (sometimes reported as William Stevenson), whom she married while a student; most contemporary reporting gives the marriage as beginning in 1970 and endin...
Public reporting establishes that and divorced in 1975 and that the split involved civil proceedings in which Jill sought a share of Mr. Stevenson’s bar business; the specific court documents themselv...
Reporting across outlets consistently states and — many specifying “May 1975” — but none of the provided sources include a primary court document or a contemporaneous 1975 news item that shows the exa...
The publicly available reporting based on Delaware reporting and later interviews shows Jill Biden and Bill (William) Stevenson separated in 1974 and a civil divorce was finalized in May 1975, with co...