Hunter Biden had hit rock bottom when he met Melissa Cohen. His then-partner, Hallie Biden, had dropped him off at a rehab facility following a family intervention, but as he revealed in his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” he decided to run away to Los Angeles instead. Once there, he started partying and hotel hopping and was constantly being kicked out because of the “parade of dealers and their hangers-on” visiting his room. In fact, he had just been told to leave the A-list Petit Ermitage when he got to talking to a group of strangers. “I slipped away every twenty minutes to hit the crack pipe,” he admitted, but even so, they didn’t seem to notice anything was off. Instead, they insisted he meet their friend, Melissa Cohen. They gave Biden her number, then he moved to the Sunset Marquis and forgot all about it. “Sometime after midnight I noticed the number inked across my palm and texted someone named Melissa,” he wrote. He suggested they grab a drink. Her response? “No thank you. I’m asleep.”
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However, her friends pushed her to go for it and she eventually texted Biden the next morning to meet for coffee. She never showed up, instead postponing the meeting repeatedly from 11am to 1pm, 4pm, and eventually 5pm. “She texted an apology for canceling so many times, then promised she would be there, for dinner now, at 5:15,” Biden wrote. To his surprise, she finally showed up and a whirlwind ensued.
