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   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   
      
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