The wife of Jill Biden’s ex-husband once gushed over her “romantic” beau in 2020 — five years before he allegedly killed her at their Delaware home.
In a resurfaced 2020 interview with Inside Edition, Linda Stevenson recounted how her decades-long marriage to William “Bill” Stevenson began.
“She was sitting across the bar with a common friend,” Bill, who was married to the former first lady for five years in the 1970s, told Inside Edition’s Steven Fabian over five years ago.
Former first lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband Bill Stevenson was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife Linda. via REUTERS
Linda Stevenson was found dead in their Oak Hill, Del. home on Dec. 28, 2025. Facebook“I said, ‘Is that Linda?’ and he said, ‘Yes.’ And from that day on, we have never been apart.”
“Quite a romantic, this guy?” Fabian asked Linda.
“Yeah, yes,” she responded, smiling and holding Bill’s hand.
“He was persistent,” Fabian said.
“Yes, very,” Linda answered.
Linda Stevenson said in a 2020 interview that she met Bill at a bar. Inside EditionBill was arrested Monday and charged with murdering current wife Linda, 64, at their Oak Hill, Del. home on Dec. 28.
Bill claimed to the outlet at the time that former President Joe Biden and Jill lied when they claimed they first met on a blind date in 1975 after Jill divorced Bill that same year and after Joe Biden’s wife, Neilia, and their daughter tragically died in a car accident.
Instead, Bill alleges he introduced Jill to Joe three years earlier when he was working on Joe’s first campaign for Senate while they were all still married.
Bill Stevenson with Jill Biden in an undated photo.
Stevenson and Jill Biden divorced in 1975. Facebook“I introduced Joe to Jill in ’72. Jill, Joe, Neilia and I were all in his kitchen,” Stevenson said in 2020. “How do you forget that?”
“These claims are fictitious,” Jill and Joe’s rep responded at the time. “The relationship of Joe and Jill Biden is well documented.”
On Monday, Bill, 77, was held on $500,000 bail following his arraignment on first-degree murder charges.
Bill Stevenson claimed in the 2020 interview that former President Joe Biden and Jill Biden have lied about how they first met — and that it was actually him who introduced the pair to each other in 1972. Jim LoScalzo – Pool via CNPPolice responded to a domestic violence call on Dec. 28 and found Linda unresponsive on the living room floor of their home. She was unable to be revived. Her cause of death hasn’t yet been revealed.
But after a weeks-long investigation, Bill was charged in her slaying.
Jill and Joe’s rep didn’t return a request for comment Tuesday.
It was not immediately known who was representing Bill in the criminal case.
