Emhoff denies report he slapped ex-girlfriend outside ritzy overseas movie event

Second man Doug Emhoff denied the veracity of a Daily Mail study successful which 3 unnamed sources accused him of having slapped a erstwhile woman during a 2012 travel to the Cannes Film Festival.

Fox News Digital has not been capable to independently corroborate the allegations.

"This study is untrue," an unnamed typical for Vice President Kamala Harris' husband told news outlet Semafor. "Any proposition that helium would oregon has ever deed a pistillate is false."

The Daily Mail's exclusive communicative connected Tuesday quoted a trio of unidentified sources who assertion Emhoff slapped his then-girlfriend portion the mates waited successful a valet enactment pursuing an lawsuit successful Nice, France, successful 2012. The alleged altercation was purportedly sparked erstwhile the pistillate – identified lone by the pseudonym "Jane" and described arsenic a palmy New York lawyer – flirted with a valet, according to the article.

The Harris campaign, the Office of the Vice President and a typical for Emhoff's ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff, did not remark contempt repeated requests from Fox News. 

Several media outlets, including Semafor, noted they had been incapable to lucifer the Daily Mail's reporting and bequest media companies specified arsenic the New York Times person yet to study connected the claims. 

The Daily Mail's nonfiction hinged connected the recollections of 3 radical described arsenic being Jane's friends. The outlet said its sources requested anonymity owed to fearfulness of retaliation from Emhoff. The 3 friends reportedly provided the outlet with a photograph of the brace erstwhile they were inactive a couple, arsenic good arsenic itineraries and correspondence betwixt Emhoff and Jane to substantiate that they made the travel to France successful May 2012.

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Second man Doug Emhoff participates successful signifier investigating up of the commencement of the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center successful Chicago connected Aug. 19, 2024 successful Chicago. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

One of the sources is described by the Daily Mail arsenic a pistillate New York lawyer who learned astir the alleged incidental from Jane.

"He hauled up and slapped her truthful hard she spun around," the root is quoted arsenic saying. "She said she was successful utter shock. She was truthful furious, she slapped him connected 1 side, and past connected the different feature with the different hand."

Another friend, described by the Daily Mail arsenic a New York businessman, told the outlet Jane called him sobbing pursuing the alleged incident. 

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"It was precise wide what she was telling me," that root said, according to the Daily Mail. "She said she was with a guy, her date, she was astatine the Cannes Film Festival, and helium deed her. She was successful the car with the feline astatine the time."

The antheral person said helium learned much details astir the alleged occurrence aft the archetypal telephone call. 

Vice President Kamala Harris hugs 2nd man Douglas Emhoff aft speaking astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago connected Aug. 22, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

"It was thing similar 3 a.m. They were trying to get retired of determination and they some had been drinking. There was a gigantic enactment for taxis," helium told the outlet. "She went up to 1 of the valet guys, offered him 100 euros oregon whatever, to get to the caput of the line. She told maine she enactment her manus connected his shoulder. Doug seemingly thought that she was flirting, and came implicit and slapped her successful the face."

A 3rd friend, described arsenic a pistillate executive, told the Daily Mail that she learned of the alleged incidental successful 2014, and purportedly recovered retired caller details from Jane successful 2018, erstwhile Harris, past a legislator from California, made headlines with her questioning of a Supreme Court nominee who had been accused of intersexual assault.

"[She] is simply a gorgeous, beardown pistillate and you would ne'er expect idiosyncratic to deed her," the 3rd person told the Daily Mail. "When helium deed her she deed him back, like, ‘Don’t you ever bash that again,'"

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The 3rd Daily Mail root added: "I asked her if helium ever apologized. She said ‘no,’ but helium commented astir the deed she gave him. It was a tennis metaphor. But nary apology astatine all."

All 3 friends told the outlet that Jane deed Emhoff backmost aft the alleged archetypal slap. They besides claimed that Jane tried to permission the valet country aft the alleged slap, but that Emhoff got into a cab with Jane.

Jane and Emhoff had been dating for astir 3 months earlier the reported travel to France, according to the friends. Emhoff allegedly chopped the travel abbreviated and returned to the U.S. for his daughter's day astatine the extremity of May, and ne'er saw Jane again, the friends told the outlet. 

Doug Emhoff points arsenic helium speaks astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago, Aug. 20, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Emhoff's alleged narration with Jane unfolded aft his 2008 divorcement from his archetypal woman and earlier his 2014 matrimony to Harris. 

The New York Post connected Wednesday slammed Emhoff arsenic "Worst Gentleman" successful its screen communicative detailing the Daily Mail's article.

Sen. Kamala Harris, past her party's vice statesmanlike nominee, and her hubby Douglas Emhoff look connected signifier astatine the Democratic National Convention connected Aug. 19, 2020, successful Wilmington, Delaware. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Emhoff is caller disconnected of a Sunday sit-down interrogation connected MSNBC during which Jen Psaki celebrated him arsenic having reshaped "the cognition of masculinity."

"There is besides an important, absorbing portion astir however radical person talked astir your relation is however your relation has reshaped the cognition of masculinity," Psaki said. "I’m not definite you planned connected that, but you are an incredibly supportive spouse. Has that been an improvement for you? Do you deliberation that’s portion of the relation you mightiness play arsenic archetypal gentleman?"

Emhoff responded: "It’s funny. I’ve started to deliberation a batch astir this. I’ve ever been similar this. My dad’s ever been similar this. To me, it’s the close happening to do, enactment women. It is communal with Kamala and I. We enactment each other, we person each other’s back."

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He added: "I’ve said galore times erstwhile we assistance up women, we enactment women, whether it’s wage equity, child care, household leave, and each of these issues successful this post-Dobbs hellscape. Women should not beryllium little than. Women should not person little rights and beryllium treated differently. That’s not the American way."

Clips of the speech dispersed similar wildfire connected societal media arsenic critics noted that, successful August, Emhoff admitted to having an matter with his family’s nanny during his archetypal matrimony years ago.

Emhoff's admittance came soon aft the Daily Mail published a abstracted study successful August claiming that helium got his daughter's nanny pregnant.

The matter occurred earlier Emhoff's narration with and eventual matrimony to Harris. 

"During my archetypal marriage, Kerstin and I went done immoderate pugnacious times connected relationship of my actions. I took responsibility, and successful the years since, we worked done things arsenic a household and person travel retired stronger connected the different side," Emhoff said implicit the summer, acknowledging the affair, but not naming the nanny. 

Kerstin Emhoff addressed her ex-husband Doug Emhoff's matter with a nanny. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)

Emhoff and his archetypal woman were joined from 1992 to 2008 and stock 2 big children. Harris married Emhoff successful 2014, and helped co-parent his children, who telephone their stepmom "mommala." 

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Emhoff reportedly told Jane successful 2012 astir his divorce, according to her pistillate person who works arsenic an executive. 

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The Daily Mail's study was published conscionable five weeks earlier the election, erstwhile Harris volition quadrate disconnected against erstwhile President Trump astatine the ballot box. 

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