former US Vice President Joe Biden with his late son, US Army Captain Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in May 2015 at the age of 46. Picture: Khalid Mohammed

The accusations, filed last week by Hunter’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Kathleen Biden, offer a peek at the sordid, big-money accusations being flung behind the scenes in the popular veep’s squeaky-clean-seeming family.

“His spending rarely relates to legitimate family expenses, but focuses on his own travel (at times multiple hotel rooms on the same night), gifts for other women, alcohol, strip clubs, or other personal indulgences,” Kathleen says in papers filed in Washignton DC Superior Court on February 23.

Hunter and Kathleen Binden in happier times at the World Food Program USA's annual McGovern-Dole leadership award ceremony in Washington, DC. Picture: Paul MorigiSource:Supplied

In citing what she describes as her husband’s whoring and spending, Kathleen is seeking to limit Hunter to a $US5,000-a-month allowance. She’s demanding that she and their three daughters in turn receive a $US20,000 monthly allowance.

“Throughout the parties’ separation Mr. Biden has created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills,” Kathleen says of Hunter in her filing.

The divorce-paper vitriol follows an already spectacularly tawdry breakup — one that may well have had a role in the 2016 presidential elections.

Joe Biden’s younger son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in May 2015 at age 46, leaving behind two children and his wife, Hallie.

Two months later, Kathleen asked hubby Hunter to leave. It later emerged that Hunter had begun dating his sister-in-law, Beau’s new widow, Hallie, first reported by the New York Post.

Kathleen and Hunter formally separated in October 2015 — right around the time that Joe Biden, crediting his ongoing grief over Beau, said he would not run for president.

Then US Vice President Joe Biden arrives at Arlington National Cemetery with his wife Dr Jill Biden (right), his son Hunter and his daughter-in-law Kathleen. Picture: Jim BourgSource:Supplied

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A Biden family spokesperson did not immediately address whether Hunter’s very complicated home life also contributed to Joe’s decision not to run.

Kathleen’s cash grab comes after Hunter allegedly blew through $US122,000 in just two months, her papers say. Meanwhile, he cut back the money he sent to his wife and kids to $US17,000 from $US75,000 a month, her papers say.

“In spite of significantly reducing available funds for Ms. Biden and the children, Mr. Biden secretly continued to spend lavishly, while complaining to Ms. Biden through counsel about the financial issues of the family and Ms. Biden’s spending,” the filing states.

Kathleen’s papers do not name names of her husband’s purported paramours. She does claim that if the court doesn’t rein in Hunter’s spending soon, she and the kids will soon be broke.

Hunter has already “maxed out available cash advances” on his American Express card, the filing says.

The late Beau Biden, pictured celebrating being re-elected Delaware Attorney General in November 2010, with his wife Hallie. Hallie is now in an affair with Beau’s brother Hunter. Picture: Mark WilsonSource:AFP

And the family is in a deep financial hole. They owe $313,970 in taxes, have a double mortgage on their home and recently bounced three checks to a housekeeper, according to the filing.

The filing makes reference to a “large” $80,000 diamond that Hunter was holding on to. When Kathleen tried to get him to put the bauble in a safe-deposit box, he claimed he no longer had it, the filing says.

Hunter Biden is accused by his estranged wife in divorce papers of squandering his family’s money on prostitutes, strip clubs, drugs, booze and gifts to multiple lovers. Picture: Astrid StawiarzSource:Getty Images

Hunter’s lawyer, Sarah Mancinelli, declined to comment on the allegations. She said in a statement, “Hunter and Kathleen have been separated for some time and are in the process of finalising a divorce. Hunter loves and admires Kathleen as a person, a mother, and a friend. He hopes their privacy can be respected at this time.”

This story originally appeared in The New York Post nas has been republished with permission.