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

The second gentleman’s representative Doug Emhoff has called a Daily Mail article detailing three anonymous sources who accused him of slapping a former girlfriend during a trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 “fake.”

Fox News Digital has not been able to independently confirm these allegations.

“This information is false,” an anonymous representative for Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband told news outlet Semafor. “Any suggestion that he hit or has ever hit a woman is false.”

Daily Mail reporter Josh Boswell appeared on “Jesse Watters Primetime” and highlighted claims that Emhoff slapped his then-girlfriend in 2012.

“The process that I followed was extremely thorough and careful on this, because you’re right, we are on the eve of an election, but what prompted these sources to come forward is not because there’s an election, but because the Kamala Harris campaign was using Doug Emhoff, presenting him as this feminist ally, pushing his credentials as an ally to women and that just made them angry,” Boswell said.

“I quoted one of them in the article saying that she thought it was disgusting, that they presented it that way, when in fact these friends knew what had happened. actually happened.”

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The woman who was allegedly slapped is described by the Daily Mail as a successful New York lawyer and is only identified by the pseudonym “Jane.”

The incident reportedly happened in 2012 while Emhoff and Jane were in a queue at a Cannes film festival in Nice, France.

“Jane got into a taxi. The valet, either with the 100 euros she had slipped him or the fact that there was apparently a domestic dispute, got her into a car, but then Doug got entered by force as well,” Boswell recalled. alleged story. “That’s what my friends told me. That’s when she got really scared. Jane called her friend who was in New York at the time. So it was a bit of a bedtime for him, but he took that call and she told him what. The next day she asked Doug about it, and he seemed completely nonchalant about it He used a metaphor of. tennis because he likes tennis. So, Jane slapped him when he slapped her, and she slapped him twice this, one on each hand. the line and on the field, so it’s no big deal.” That’s all he had to say about it, and of course, Jane immediately broke up with him and never saw him again. They returned home separately.

The allegation was made to the Daily Mail by three people who described themselves as friends of Jane and who shared their memories of the incident, as well as travel itineraries and correspondence between Jane and Emhoff to corroborate the story . All three requested anonymity out of fear of potential retaliation from Emhoff.

“These sources each spoke to us independently and their accounts closely corroborated each other,” Boswell said. “So that’s part of what gave me confidence in this story.”

A friend said Jane told her about the alleged incident at the time.

“He picked her up and slapped her so hard she turned around,” the source reportedly said. “She said she was in complete shock. She was so furious that she slapped him on one side and then the other cheek with the other hand.”

Another friend – described by the Daily Mail as a New York businessman – also shared his memories of the alleged slap.

“What she was telling me was very clear,” the source said, according to the Daily Mail. “She said she was with a guy, her date, that she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and he hit her. She was in the car with this guy at the time.”

A third friend, described as a female executive, told the Daily Mail that she learned of the alleged incident in 2014 and allegedly discovered new details from Jane in 2018, when Harris, then California’s senator , made headlines by questioning Jane. a Supreme Court nominee who had been accused of sexual assault.

The third source said she asked Jane if Emhoff had ever apologized and was told no, but that “he had commented on the hit she gave him. It was a metaphor tennis. But no excuses at all.”

According to Daily Mail sources, Jane and Emhoff had been dating for about three months before the France trip. Emhoff reportedly cut the trip short early and returned to Los Angeles for his daughter’s 13th birthday.

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“The documents were very important,” Boswell said. “They helped prove that number one, the relationship, you know, we have this picture of them together. We had other documents like that. Then the email references the fact that Doug had to leave more early because he had to return to Los Angeles in time for his daughter’s birthday is May 29th. So you can see that matched. flight and you can see they took a layover flight.

Emhoff was married to his first wife from 1992 to 2009. marriage ended following his affair with their children’s nanny, with whom he became pregnant. Emhoff met current Vice President Kamala Harris in 2013 while she was attorney general of California, and they married in 2014.

The Harris campaign, the vice president’s office and a representative for Emhoff’s ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff, had no comment despite repeated requests from Fox News.

Emma Colton of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.