Re: Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff slapped me in the face so hard I spun around ... I'm disgusted by his fake 'perfect spouse' persona

On 10/25/2024 8:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> Doug Emhoff's ex-girlfriend has spoken exclusively to DailyMail.com claiming
> that he slapped her in the face so hard she spun around at a 2012 celebrity
> event in France.
> 
> The woman, a successful New York attorney, is remaining anonymous, but
> decided to speak out after Emhoff, Kamala Harris's husband, denied the claims
> through a spokesman.
> 
> Emhoff's accuser, who DailyMail.com is naming only as 'Jane', initially
> declined to comment on the record. But Emhoff's denial, and his alleged
> hypocrisy by claiming to be a feminist in media interviews, finally became
> too much for her.
> 
> 'What's frightening for a woman that's been on the other end of it, is
> watching this completely fabricated persona being portrayed,' Jane said.
> 
> 'He's being held out to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is
> utterly shocking.'
> 
> The ex-girlfriend of Kamala's husband Doug Emhoff, who DailyMail.com is
> naming only as 'Jane', alleges that he slapped her in the face so hard she
> spun around at a 2012 celebrity event in France
> 
> The woman, a successful New York attorney who is remaining anonymous, decided
> to speak out after Emhoff denied the claims through a spokesman
> 
> Doug Emhoff arrives for the amFAR gala dinner in the south of France (right).
> Jane had booked tickets for the two of them to attend the event the previous
> month
> 
> DailyMail.com broke the story about the alleged unprovoked attack on October
> 2, by reporting accounts from two friends she told immediately after the
> incident, a third she told in 2018, and documents evidencing her relationship
> and trip to France with Emhoff.
> 
> The bombshell allegations, which followed DailyMail.com's revelation in
> August that Emhoff cheated on his first wife with his daughter's nanny Najen
> Naylor, received little or no coverage from politically center-left major
> news outlets.
> 
> Emhoff admitted the affair in a statement in August but his spokesman gave
> only a short denial of the alleged violence to a politics news site a day
> after we exclusively reported the slap allegation.
> 
> In a statement to Semafor published October 3, a spokesperson said 'this
> report is untrue,' and that 'any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a
> woman is false.'
> 
> Emhoff, the Harris campaign, and the White House have failed to respond to
> DailyMail.com and other outlets' repeated requests for comment.
> 
> But the second gentleman has since continued to brag about his long-held
> feminist values in softball media interviews arranged by the Harris
> presidential campaign.
> 
> 'Every time I see Doug on TV portraying the persona of a perfect spouse and
> non-toxic man, I wonder if Najen is watching too and feeling as disgusted as
> I am,' Jane said.
> 
> Last week, 'Jane' recounted her story to DailyMail.com – including that
> Emhoff 'slapped me so hard I spun around,' and that Emhoff told her he was
> accused by his mistress of causing her to miscarry their baby.
> 
> DailyMail.com exclusively broke the story in October about the alleged
> unprovoked attack in 2012, by reporting accounts from two friends 'Jane' had
> told immediately after the incident
> 
> The denial by the second gentleman and his alleged hypocrisy by claiming to
> be a feminist in media interviews convinced the woman to speak out
> 
> DailyMail.com has reported that Emhoff impregnated the family's nanny while
> married to his first wife, allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes
> Film Festival and was 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' at work
> 
> Emhoff and Jane got together in 2012 before he met Harris, who he married in
> 2014.
> 
> 'I was living in New York, and Doug was living in Los Angeles,' Jane said. 'I
> met him on Match.com.
> 
> 'After work one night I met him for drinks at a hotel near Times Square.'
> 
> She said Emhoff's odd behavior began immediately, when he invited his son
> Cole to join them about an hour into their first date in March 2012.
> 
> 'It was an odd request for a first date, but I also felt bad that his son was
> walking around the city waiting for his dad to finish his Match.com date. So
> I agreed. In retrospect, it should have been a red flag.'
> 
> Jane said their relationship consisted of 'an intense few months', with
> Emhoff discussing marriage and children after just weeks.
> 
> 'He flew me to Los Angeles in April [2012]. I stayed in his home for a week.
> The entire time, he was alluding to marriage and having children with me,'
> she told DailyMail.com.
> 
> 'He was totally love-bombing me. He grabbed me round the stomach and talked
> about wanting more babies.'
> 
> Jane said that less than a month into her relationship she got a lucrative
> job opportunity in the UK, and Emhoff gave her the impression he was willing
> to leave his family behind.
> 
> 'He was really pushing me to pursue it, and he seemed like he was willing to
> come with me to London,' she said. 'He was ready to uproot, even though he
> had a family, and he had a child still in junior high school.'
> 
> Emhoff has been previously dubbed by Democrats as a 'wife guy' and a
> 'mensch', a Yiddish term for an honorable, kind man. 'He's being held out to
> be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is utterly shocking,' Jane
> said
> 
> A copy of Jane and Emhoff's itinerary shared with DailyMail.com shows a
> layover flight from Newark, New Jersey to Nice, France on May 22, 2012
> 
> Emhoff's first wife and mother of his two kids, Kerstin, had filed to end
> their marriage three years earlier in June 2009, after splitting with him the
> month before, according to LA court documents.
> 
> But Jane said she got the impression Emhoff still felt a debt to his ex, and
> decided to  ask him about it during her LA trip in April 2012.
> 
> 'We were in Santa Monica. He was driving his fancy car. And so I just
> straight out asked him: 'I feel like you're on the back foot in the divorce,
> like you're trying to make up for something?' she said.
> 
> 'All I did was ask him one question, and he told me the whole story. Without
> skipping a beat, and staring straight ahead at the road, he tells me he had
> an affair with his daughter's teacher and that subsequently she claimed that
> she was pregnant. He's telling me this very casually like it's no big deal.
> 
> 'He yelled at her. He never said he hit her, but he said he got really angry
> with her, and she subsequently claimed that whatever he did caused her to
> lose the pregnancy.
> 
> 'He said she got a lawyer and was threatening litigation. I was
> flabbergasted. And I was taken aback by how matter of fact he could talk
> about it.
> 
> 'He tried to minimize it. He said there was no proof that the woman had
> become pregnant. He tried to make it seem like she was scamming him.
> 
> 'To be honest, I wanted to believe him at the time, because by all
> appearances this was turning into a serious relationship.
> 
> 'I had just met both his children, his parents and many people he worked with
> at Venable. But I did harbor reservations after this.'
> 
> The bombshell allegation of the slap followed DailyMail.com's revelation in
> August that Emhoff cheated on his first wife Kerstin (right) with his
> daughter's nanny Najen Naylor. The story about the slap received little or no
> coverage from politically center-left major news outlets
> 
> 'Every time I see Doug on TV portraying the persona of a perfect spouse and
> non-toxic man, I wonder if Najen is watching too and feeling as disgusted as
> I am,' Jane said. When DailyMail.com approached Naylor she would not comment
> about her relationship with Emhoff or the baby. 'I'm kind of freaked out
> right now,' she said
> 
> LAPD records obtained by DailyMail.com show that police were called to a
> house where Naylor was living around the time she was allegedly pregnant in
> 2009
> 
> Jane added that Emhoff told her he settled with Naylor for about $80,000, and
> had her sign an NDA.
> 
> Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) records obtained by DailyMail.com under
> the California Public Records Act show that police were called to a house
> where Naylor was living around the time she was allegedly pregnant, at 8:14pm
> on June 28, 2009.
> 
> The callout was given priority level three, which is a 'life threatening
> emergency, lights and sirens on'.
> 
> LAPD refused to give further information or the names of the individuals
> involved in the incident, and Najen declined to comment.
> 
> Hours after DailyMail.com published a story on August 3 revealing claims that
> Emhoff impregnated his daughter's grade school teacher and part-time nanny,
> the second gentleman gave a statement to CNN admitting the affair, but not
> mentioning any pregnancy, miscarriage, or legal agreement.
> 
> Jane said Emhoff's alleged disclosure to her in April 2012 about his affair
> gave her pause about their relationship.
> 
> But she had already booked tickets for the two of them to attend the star-
> studded amfAR gala dinner in the south of France the following month, held
> alongside Cannes Film Festival.
> 
> 'I had already planned and paid to go to this event, and he was already
> invited, so I went ahead and brought him,' she said.
> 
> She described the trip as a 'fairytale' at first. She mingled with A-list
> celebrities at the May 24 event, dressed in a red ball gown with Emhoff in a
> dapper tuxedo.
> 
> But she said it turned into a nightmare at around 3am when they joined a long
> and chaotic line for a taxi outside the Hotel du Cap event venue in Antibes
> to return to their lodgings in a neighboring town.
> 
> 'I decided I'm going to go up to the valet and give them 100 bucks, to get
> out of this line,' Jane said.
> 
> A May 17, 2012 email provided by the friends, written by Jane to one of her
> fellow amfAR attendees, gives the location of the hotel in Nice the couple
> stayed at that weekend
> 
> The elite charity auction was held at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc in Antibes,
> southern France
> 
> The alleged incident purportedly took place after the two attended amfAR's
> Cinema Against AIDS event at Hotel Du Cap in the South of France in May 2012,
> where model Heidi Klum and now-disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein were
> among the guests
> 
> 'I put my hand on the valet's shoulder and tell him, with my $100, could you
> please get me a car as soon as possible.
> 
> 'As I'm talking to him, Doug got out of the line, comes up, turns me around
> by my right shoulder. I'm completely caught off guard, I'm not bracing, I'm
> in four inch heels, wearing a full-length gown and it's between 2-3am.
> 
> 'He slaps me so hard I spin around, and I'm in utter shock.
> 
> 'There had been no fight, no argument. It had been a completely fantastic
> event. I am so furious. The only thing I could think to do was slap him back.
> I slapped him on one side, and on the other cheek with the other hand.
> 
> 'In that moment, his mask had dropped and I saw his dark side,' she added.
> 
> 'All of a sudden the car is there, the valet is ushering me in.
> 
> 'I intended to go back to the hotel without him. So I was shutting the car
> door, but he forced his way into the car, which I did not want.
> 
> 'It's dark. I don't speak French, my friends we're with are off having an
> amazing time. I'm embarrassed and humiliated that, this amazing experience
> turned into this violent spectacle.
> 
> 'I can't believe he just slapped me. I think I said to him in the car, 'What
> the hell is wrong with you? Why did you do that?' And the only thing I could
> get out of him was he thought I was hitting on the valet.'
> 
> Jane said she called a businessman friend in New York from the cab to tell
> him what just happened. The friend confirmed the call to DailyMail.com.
> 
> 'This was the first time I saw Doug's ugly side,' Jane said. 'I was in shock.
> I wanted somebody to know where I was, and what happened. I was freaked out
> because I thought I knew this person. But I don't, and he's in the car with
> me.
> 
> 'I also wanted Doug to see me on the phone telling somebody.'
> 
> Jane said that less than a month into her relationship she got a lucrative
> job opportunity in the UK, and Emhoff gave her the impression he was willing
> to leave his family behind. 'He was really pushing me to pursue it, and he
> seemed like he was willing to come with me to London,' she said
> 
> Jane said the next day Emhoff was unapologetic, telling her in a casual
> manner that they were 'even' and referencing her returned slaps using a
> tennis metaphor: 'Don't worry about it, you got one across the court and down
> the line.'
> 
> The New York attorney told DailyMail.com that after the shocking alleged
> attack, she began to see past behavior by Emhoff in a new light.
> 
> As well as questioning his alleged version of his affair with Naylor, she
> also recalled a 'weird' incident at their hotel in Nice before the amfAR
> dinner.
> 
> 'We went outside and sat on the loungers,' Jane said. 'I'm in a bikini. He
> wanted to take a picture of me. I didn't think anything of it.
> 
> 'Later on he sent me a couple of pictures. The picture he took of me did not
> include my head. I was like, 'Where's my head?' And he was just giggling
> about it like a pubescent boy.
> 
> 'It was gross and I felt so humiliated. In retrospect I believe he was
> intentionally objectifying me to diminish me. That's the kind of person he
> is.'
> 
> Earlier this month, DailyMail.com revealed claims from Emhoff's former
> colleagues at his ex-law firm Venable that he was 'misogynistic' and
> 'inappropriate' with women at the firm, including bragging to top firm
> partners that he yelled at a woman and 'put her in her place'.
> 
> Jane said that the alleged behavior fit with the Emhoff that she knew – but
> not the one that he presents in media interviews.
> 
> She said that the week after the slapping incident, she told a friend who
> worked with Emhoff at Venable about it, and the woman responded that Emhoff
> had a 'bad reputation' with women in the law firm's LA office.
> 
> When Jane read Emhoff was dating then-California Attorney General Kamala
> Harris in 2014, the memory of the slap 'all came flooding back'
> 
> Emhoff recently sat down for a fawning interview with Jen Psaki during which
> the former White House Press Secretary told the second gentleman that he had
> 'reshaped the perception of masculinity'
> 
> Jane said that long ago she moved on emotionally from Emhoff's alleged
> violent attack, and she doesn't want to be seen as a 'victim'.
> 
> 'It was very hurtful at the time. But I am proud of how I responded in real
> time to this unexpected assault,' the attorney said.
> 
> 'I had never really wanted to talk about Doug slapping me, to be honest with
> you, because I was with him for a few months, it was this one moment. And it
> was enough to wake me up and leave.
> 
> 'In retrospect, it was the best thing that could possibly have happened,
> because his mask dropped, and I realized I shouldn't waste another moment
> with him.'
> 
> The two never spoke after the French trip, Jane said, save for two texts
> where she requested he paid her money he owed, and he requested a suit he
> left behind - which she promptly threw in the trash.
> 
> But when she read Emhoff was dating then-California Attorney General Kamala
> Harris in 2014, it all came flooding back.
> 
> 'I just got this sinking feeling, like, oh my god, she's engaged to this guy.
> My first thought was she clearly has not done due diligence on him. And I
> thought, he's putting the hard sell on her, like he did with me.
> 
> 'I was wondering, does she know?'
> 
> Jane said she felt compelled to tell her best friend, a female top executive,
> her story about Emhoff in 2018 after they watched Harris grill Supreme Court
> Justice Brett Kavanaugh about alleged sexual assault in his 2018 confirmation
> hearing.
> 
> The friend recounted to DailyMail.com the same story Jane told.
> 
> DailyMail.com also obtained a copy of Jane and Emoff's flight itinerary to
> France, an email to a friend and fellow attendee at the 2012 amfAR gala
> mentioning Emhoff's attendance, and pictures of the former couple with
> metadata showing the date and location of the photo.
> 
> Emhoff, 59, and movie producer ex-wife Kerstin, 57, ended their 16-year
> marriage in 2009 when she discovered the affair, the sources said. Their
> daughter Ella was 10 and son Cole was 15 at the time
> 
> A Federal Election Commission record shows Jane and her husband donated
> thousands of dollars to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. DailyMail.com
> redacted the page to preserve Jane's anonymity
> 
> Footage obtained by DailyMail.com from the red carpet at the event shows
> Emhoff walking in the background.
> 
> The material helped confirm key aspects of Jane's story.
> 
> Jane dismissed any claims that her allegations against Emhoff were
> politically motivated, adding that she and her husband have been registered
> Democrats, voted for Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary and
> 2020 election, and donated over $10,000 to Biden's campaigns.
> 
> DailyMail.com obtained Federal Election Commission records evidencing the
> donations, and voter registrations showing the couple's previous registration
> as Democrats.
> 
> 'I've recounted the same story for years, and I've been telling this story
> before he became famous,' she said.
> 
> Jane added that after reading DailyMail.com's story about Emhoff's affair
> with his daughter's nanny, she felt 'validated' – but also angry at a
> lackluster response among some mainstream media.
> 
> 'I've been telling this story to my friends. And I kept saying, this is a big
> deal, why doesn't anybody in the media care? And apparently nobody did,' she
> said.
> 
> 'Not a single reporter has directly asked Doug about these allegations.
> 
> 'When some news organizations re-reported your reporting, they even left out
> the claim that the teacher had become pregnant. I was livid. It's just so
> clear what's happening. I'm so disgusted.'
> 
> Jane said she hopes coming forward now, albeit anonymously, will help set the
> record straight, and prompt a thorough investigation of the POTUS hopeful's
> husband.
> 

Yup. People who do stupid, violent things when they're young should be 
locked up forever. Wait, Trump too? ...