Daily Mail reporter details allegations Doug Emhoff slapped his ex-girlfriend

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s consultant known as a Every day Mail report detailing three unnamed sources who accused him of getting slapped a former girlfriend throughout a 2012 journey to the Cannes Movie Competition “unfaithful.” 

Fox Information Digital has not been in a position to independently verify the allegations. 

“This report is unfaithful,” an unnamed consultant for Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband instructed information outlet Semafor. “Any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a girl is fake.”

Every day Mail reporter Josh Boswell appeared on “Jesse Watters Primetime” and outlined the claims that Emhoff slapped his then-girlfriend in 2012. 

“The method that I went via was extraordinarily thorough and cautious about this, since you’re proper, we’re on the eve of an election, however the factor that made these sources come ahead is just not as a result of there’s an election, however as a result of the Kamala Harris marketing campaign was utilizing Doug Emhoff, displaying him as this feminist ally, baking up his credentials as an ally to ladies and that simply enraged them,” Boswell mentioned. 

“I quoted one in every of them within the piece saying this, that she thought that it was disgusting, that they have been portraying him this fashion, when in actual fact, these buddies knew what had actually occurred.” 

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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris hugs Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff after talking on the fourth and final day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) on the United Middle in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (Picture by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Picture by MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Photographs) (Getty Photographs)

The girl who was allegedly slapped is described by the Every day Mail as a profitable New York legal professional and is recognized solely by the pseudonym “Jane.” 

The incident was alleged to have occurred in 2012 whereas Emhoff and Jane have been in a valet line at a Cannes Movie Competition in Good, France.    

“Jane acquired right into a cab. The valet, both with €100 that she slipped him or the truth that there was this home dispute occurring apparently, ushered her right into a automobile, however then Doug compelled his approach in too,” Boswell recalled the alleged story. “That is what the buddies instructed me. That is when she acquired actually scared. Jane known as her male buddy who was in New York on the time. So, it was sort of bedtime for him, however he took this name, and he or she instructed him what had occurred. The subsequent day she questioned Doug about it, and he gave the impression to be fully nonchalant about it. He used some tennis metaphor as a result of he is into tennis. So, Jane slapped him again when he slapped her, and he or she slapped him again twice like this, one with every hand. Doug mentioned, ‘You bought one down the road and throughout the courtroom. So, it is no massive deal.’ That is all he needed to say about it, and so Jane, after all, instantly broke up with him and by no means noticed him once more. They left. They went house individually. ” 

The allegation was made to the Every day Mail by three individuals who described themselves as Jane’s buddies and who shared their recollections of the incident, together with journey itineraries and correspondence between Jane and Emhoff to corroborate the story. All three requested anonymity out of worry of potential retaliation from Emhoff.  

“These sources have been every independently speaking to us and their accounts carefully corroborated one another,” Boswell mentioned. “So, that is a part of what gave me the boldness on this story. “

One buddy mentioned Jane instructed her concerning the alleged incident on the time.  

“He hauled up and slapped her so arduous she spun round,” the supply is quoted as saying. “She mentioned she was in utter shock. She was so livid, she slapped him on one facet, after which on the opposite cheek with the opposite hand.” 

One other buddy — described by the Every day Mail as a New York businessman — additionally gave his recollection of the alleged slap. 

“It was very clear what she was telling me,” that supply mentioned, in accordance with the Every day Mail. “She mentioned she was with a man, her date, she was on the Cannes Movie Competition, and he hit her. She was within the automobile with the man on the time.” 

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A 3rd buddy, described as a feminine govt, instructed the Every day Mail that she realized of the alleged incident in 2014, and purportedly discovered new particulars from Jane in 2018, when Harris, then a senator from California, made headlines along with her questioning of a Supreme Court docket nominee who had been accused of sexual assault. 

The third supply mentioned that she had requested Jane if Emhoff had ever apologized and was instructed that he had not, however that “he commented concerning the hit she gave him. It was a tennis metaphor. However no apology in any respect.” 

In line with the Every day Mail’s sources, Jane and Emhoff had been courting for about three months earlier than the reported journey to France. Emhoff allegedly minimize the journey off early and returned to LA for his daughter’s thirteenth birthday.  

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“Paperwork have been essential,” Boswell mentioned. “They helped show that firstly, the connection, you realize, we have got this {photograph} of them collectively. We had different materials like that. Then, the e-mail truly references the truth that Doug needed to depart early as a result of he needed to get again to L.A. in time for his daughter’s birthday. Her birthday is Might twenty ninth. Their flight was scheduled to depart on Might twenty ninth. So, you possibly can see that matched up. We acquired the flight particulars, and you’ll see they took a layover flight to take them to Good. All of it added up with what every of the sources have been saying. These sources have been every independently speaking to us and their accounts carefully corroborated one another. So, that is a part of what gave me the boldness on this story.”

Emhoff was married to his first spouse from 1992 to 2009. The marriage ended following his affair with their kids’s nanny, who he acquired pregnant. Emhoff met now-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2013 when she was serving as California legal professional common, and so they have been married in 2014. 

The Harris marketing campaign, the Workplace of the Vice President and a consultant for Emhoff’s ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff, didn’t remark regardless of repeated requests from Fox Information.

Fox Information Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.