Who is Bill Stevenson? Ex-husband of Jill Biden whose second wife died after 'domestic dispute' at Delaware home
Bill Stevenson was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975. He claimed she cheated on him with Joe Biden, which ended their marriage.
Jill Biden's ex-husband has been thrust back into the spotlight after his wife was found dead in her home after an alleged domestic dispute, just years after he released a memoir about his and the former first lady's union.
Bill Stevenson's 64-year-old wife, Linda, was found unresponsive in her Delaware home on Sunday, TMZ reported, after police were called to the property.
Bill, 77, married Jill in 1970 when she was just an 18-year-old student and he was just a few years older.
At the time, Jill, now 74, believed their union would last a lifetime, but the pair split after five years of marriage in 1975.
That same year, she met the would-be president, Joe Biden, and two years later, the two would marry when she was 26 and he was 34.
In her 2019 memoir, When the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself, Jill admitted she first thought she and Bill were 'destined for each other.'
'Looking back, it may seem like a mistake of youth,' she scathingly wrote about the man she indirectly referred to as 'charming and entrepreneurial' in the book.
Bill, who owned an ale house, told the Daily Mail a different story in 2020. He claimed the would-be political powerhouse couple's love story was born from an affair that shattered his marriage to Jill.
Bill Stevenson was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975. He claimed she cheated on him with Joe Biden, which ended their marriage
Jill, however, said she and Joe started dating after her divorce in 1975 and married in 1977
'I don't want to hurt anyone, but facts are facts and what happened, happened,' he said at the time.
Representatives for Jill told Inside Edition in 2020 that the affair claims were 'fictitious' to 'sell and promote a book' that Bill was preparing to release.
'The relationship of Joe and Jill Biden is well documented,' the spokesman said.
'Jill Biden separated from her first husband irreconcilably in the fall of 1974 and moved out of their marital home. Joe and Jill Biden had their first date in March of 1975, and they married in June of 1977.'
However, Bill declared that he knew Jill was cheating on him with the Democrat while working on the latter's New Castle, Delaware, campaign for county councilman in the 1970s.