A former girlfriend of Doug Emhoff has broken her silence regarding allegations he assaulted her for flirting with another man at a gala in 2012.

He allegedly “struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around, while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France,” Daily Mail previously reported.

The woman, who is remaining anonymous, spoke to Daily Mail after Emhoff denied the claims through a spokesman.

According to the outlet, the woman, a successful New York attorney, said Emhoff’s denial and alleged hypocrisy portrayed in the media 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,” the woman, named only as ‘Jane,’ told the Daily Mail.

“He’s being held out to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is utterly shocking,” she added.

Per Daily Mail:

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.

Jane told the outlet their trip to the celebrity event became a nightmare when they joined a long, chaotic line to get a taxi and return to their lodging.

“I decided I’m going to go up to the valet and give them 100 bucks, to get out of this line,” Jane told the Daily Mail.

“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,” she continued.

“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,” she continued.

Jane told the outlet the only thing she could think of doing was to slap him back.

She said that she saw his “dark side” in that moment.

From the New York Post:

Jane and Emhoff met on Match.com in 2012 while she was residing in New York and he in Los Angeles, according to the report. The pair went on their first date in March of that year, and Emhoff invited his eldest son Cole to join them.

“In retrospect, it should have been a red flag,” said Jane, who described their fling as “an intense few months.”

“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 revealed. “He was totally love-bombing me. He grabbed me round the stomach and talked about wanting more babies.”

Both Jane and her current husband are registered Democrats who backed President Biden in both the 2020 primary as well as the general election and donated more than $10,000 to his campaign, per the report.

 

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