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   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:05:01 -0500, 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   
      
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