Lawyer Quits Repping Biden Daughter "Coke Tape" Seller

March 30, 2009, 9:39 a.m.

After telling various tabloids about a tape that supposedly shows Vice

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After telling various tabloids about a tape that supposedly shows Vice President Joe Biden's 27-year-old daughter Ashley snorting cocaine, the attorney has quit representing the tape's seller. RadarOnline reports that D.C. lawyer Tom Dunlap "said he did not want to be involved due to circumstances surrounding the publicity of the matter." Good thinking, since the publicity has broken out after he showed RadarOnline, the NY Post and the National Enquirer snippets of the tape! It's unclear whether the woman who looks like Biden on the tape was aware she was being filmed. The seller had hoped to get $2 million, but will apparently settle for $400,000. The VP and his wife haven't commented about their daughter, but the Post did get one from a Tulane classmate who bailed her out of jail for a 1999 pot arrest (she was not convicted): Ashley Biden "was a hot freshman that every guy wanted to be with... Everybody at Tulane knew that she was a party girl. She wore some pretty short shorts -- a lot."