Former President Joe Biden’s post-political life has taken a shocking turn, as reports have now surfaced that Biden has inked a deal with one of Hollywood’s major firms.
Does this mean that Biden will be come the next Hollywood star?
Here’s the latest.
Per the New York Post, Biden announced that he will be represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Details for his services have yet to be released.
Joe Biden has signed with Creative Artists Agency for representation as he begins his post-presidential era. https://t.co/sGuVHHOaw7
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 4, 2025
CAA also represents Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground media company, which has produced nearly two dozen films and TV shows — including the Oscar-winning documentary “American Factory” — and podcasts featuring the former first couple.
Biden’s longterm plans remain unclear, though he used the same agency to represent him after he left the vice presidency to promote his 2017 book “Promise Me, Dad.”
Biden as president earned an annual salary of $400,000, but he — and relatives invoking his name — commanded much more after his vice presidency.
The talent agency deal comes after insiders speculated on how Biden and his family might make money — after reaping millions from foreign patrons and a dubious Ivy League professorship during and after his vice presidency.
One month after leaving office in 2017, Biden was named the University of Pennsylvania’s “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor” — drawing nearly $1 million through 2019 despite just nine known visits to the Philadelphia school’s campus, one of them to promote his own book.
“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs,” CAA co-chairman Richard Lovett said.
“His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”
Despite the new, lucrative deal, Biden has not specifically revealed what his life will look like in the coming years, but had said in the final days of his term that he expected his voice to continue to influence politics.
“We’re leaving office, we’re not leaving the fight,” he told his supporters after leaving Washington alongside first lady Jill Biden on Jan. 20.