It’s been just a few days since she remarried, but Hallie Biden and her new husband were forced to make their first public appearance as newlyweds at the criminal trial of her brother-in-law and former lover in Delaware on Thursday.
With his thin face, tendency to look unshaven, and baseball cap, his new spouse, John Hopkins Anning II, bears a striking resemblance to his former lover Hunter.
But when it comes to politics, the Ohio financial advisor couldn’t be more different from the first family, having been a registered Republican since 1997, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Anning is a divorced father of three adult children: Katherine, 25, Margot, 24, and John Hopkins III, who will turn 18 this year.
Hallie Biden quietly married her new husband, John Hopkins Anning II, days before testifying at Hunter Biden’s criminal trial in Delaware on Thursday, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The president’s daughter-in-law was seen flaunting two rings on her ring finger as she arrived with her new husband at court.
The nuptials come years after Hallie left her late husband Beau Biden and dated his brother Hunter (right).
And although Joe Biden has waded his way through a thicket of accusations of financial improprieties thanks to his closeness to their wayward son, the Annings are able to keep him in the family without fear of controversy or scandal.
As senior vice president of wealth management at UBS The Anning Group, Anning works alongside his father Robert, who holds the same title and moved to UBS after 45 years as an advisor to Merrill Lynch.
Anning II, 52, who graduated from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies, followed the same path and began her career at Merrill Lynch in Denver, Colorado, where she worked from 1996 to 1998. .
During this time, he met the six-foot-tall blonde Katie Zicka, 53, a University of Denver alumnus, whom he married on September 20, 1997.
The couple returned to their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, the following year in 1998, when they began working for UBS The Anning Group.
He serves on the board of directors of The Christ Hospital Foundation and previously served on the board of directors of the Cincinnati Parks Foundation.
On August 28, 2013, after 16 years of marriage and three children, Katie filed for divorce.
Divorce documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal that the couple had been living apart for a year at the time, but shed little light on the issues that drove them apart.
With his thin face, tendency to look unshaven, and baseball cap, Hopkins Anning bears a striking resemblance to his former lover Hunter.
The newlyweds were seen exchanging smiles as they stopped by the courthouse Thursday morning.
Hallie had reportedly been engaged to Anning, a financial advisor from Ohio, for more than a year, but the couple postponed marriage until their youngest son graduated from high school.
They state: ‘differences have arisen that make coexistence impossible’.
The couple had signed a prenuptial agreement on September 19, 1997, the day before they were married and the details of which are not publicly available.
But as part of her divorce settlement, Anning agreed to pay her ex a lump sum of $150,000, $4,000 a month in alimony and $3,600 a month in child support through 2020.
He also agreed to maintain an $800,000 life insurance policy as long as he had financial commitments to his ex-wife and children.
The former couple also established a trust fund to cover their children’s educational costs.
Additionally, they agreed that Anning would be responsible for two-thirds of the college fees, while her ex would pay only one-third.
The newlywed couple was photographed arriving at a federal courthouse in Wilmington on Thursday morning, ahead of Hallie’s testimony.
Plans for the nuptials first emerged on Saturday, and Page Six reported that the couple would tie the knot that weekend after a marriage license appeared in Hamilton County court records in Ohio.
President Biden’s former daughter-in-law was married to her son Beau from 2002 until his death in 2015, during which time Beau served as Delaware Attorney General.
Hallie’s testimony Thursday at Hunter’s trial in Wilmington, Delaware, will bolster the case against her former lover.
Hallie had two children, Natalie and Robert, with Beau before he died of brain cancer.
Hallie had reportedly been engaged to Anning for more than a year, but the couple postponed marriage until their youngest son graduated from high school.
Further details about the wedding or the guests are unclear.
The 50-year-old widow took the stand. for the prosecution at Hunter’s Delaware gun crimes trial, detailing how both men frequently abused drugs in the late 2010s.
Hallie Olivere, who grew up in Delaware and whose mother was friends with Joe, joined the Biden clan in 2002 when she married Beau, the president’s eldest son.
The couple had two children and was married until his death in 2015 from brain cancer, during which time he served as Attorney General of Delaware.
After Beau Biden’s death, she began dating Hunter around the same time he divorced his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle.
The couple continued dating for two years, a period that has now come under the spotlight in their federal trial.