ashley biden video

It was a setup.

The video purporting to show Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley snorting cocaine was preplanned by a man trying to get rich selling the tape, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

The man, who is apparently a friend of Ashley's, even bought the cocaine and the hidden camera, our investigation has uncovered.

The Vice President has been one of this country's leading warriors in the fight against drugs and helped create the Drug Czar post. But scandal exploded around him in the past few days when RadarOnline.com uncovered that a man was hawking a tape that shows a cocaine-snorting woman who looks identical to Biden's 27-year-old daughter. The seller represented that the woman is Ashley Biden and hired a Washington, D.C. law firm to help him sell the tape.

Biden has not commented and his daughter has been unreachable.

RadarOnline.com viewed the tape but did not offer to purchase it. The man who made the tape shopped it to several media outlets but did not receive any written offers, we've learned.

Now, RadarOnline.com has discovered that the woman who is alleged to be Ashley Biden was set up in an elaborate plot by her "friend." The man bought cocaine and a hidden camera and brought the cocaine to a party.

He then made sure that he was in correct position to film her when she snorted the drugs.

The seller had planned to get the woman alleged to be Ashley on tape doing drugs for at least three weeks. The tape was shot this year.

It is clear from the tape that the woman said to be Ashley Biden does not know she is being filmed.

Ashley Biden a hot topic on Media

The name Biden has been on the lips of high-profile television and radio talkers this week, but it hasn't been about Joe.

The vice president's daughter, Ashley, has been the center of attention ever since the New York Post published a weekend article claiming "an anonymous male acquaintance" began shopping a videotape he claims shows the 27-year-old Biden taking drugs at a recent party in Delaware.

According to The Post, the video was first offered for $2 million, but that figure was reduced to $400,000. Radar Online has since reported the video was being offered for $250,000. Neither outlet was willing to pay for the tape.

Thomas Dunlap, an attorney who had been representing the owner of the video, showed the tape to the Post. Dunlap is no longer representing the man who shot the footage, the Post reported. Dunlap did not return calls from The News Journal.

The video has not been publicly released, and the Post carefully reported that the woman in the 90 seconds of video "appears to resemble" Ms. Biden, but doesn't confirm it is the vice president's daughter, who works for the Delaware's Department of Children, Youth and Families. Ashley is the youngest child of the vice president, and the only child Joe had with Jill Biden, his second wife.

There are conflicting reports about the content of the video from the Post and Radar Online, the only two outlets that have reported on the videotape after staff viewed it.

The Post reported that the video camera "appears not to be concealed." Radar Online, however, has written that the footage was shot with a hidden camera. The Post also reported a "red straw" is used in the video to snort cocaine. Radar Online, a gossip Web site, reported a "rolled-up dollar bill" was used.