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Did Ashley Biden Call Childhood Showers with Her Father 'Probably Inappropriate' in Leaked Diary?
"I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online," Ashley Biden wrote to a district court judge.
Alex Kasprak
Published Dec. 7, 2022
Updated May 14, 2024
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Note: On April 29, 2024, Snopes changed the rating of this fact check from "Unproven" to "True" based on testimony provided by Ashley Biden. In an April 8 letter to a New York judge requesting jail time for one of the two people convicted of stealing her diary, Biden wrote, "I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online."
Previous versions of this fact check noted "strong evidence" that the diary existed, but argued that no source had authenticated the contents of the pages published online, writing that "the authenticity of photographs purported to be from a diary is a separate question from the factual existence of a diary."