'It all added up': Daily Mail reporter details allegations against second gentleman

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff's representative called a Daily Mail study detailing 3 unnamed sources who accused him of having slapped a erstwhile woman during a 2012 travel to the Cannes Film Festival "untrue." 

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."

Daily Mail newsman Josh Boswell appeared connected "Jesse Watters Primetime" and outlined the claims that Emhoff slapped his then-girlfriend successful 2012. 

"The process that I went done was highly thorough and cautious astir this, due to the fact that you're right, we're connected the eve of an election, but the happening that made these sources travel guardant is not due to the fact that there's an election, but due to the fact that the Kamala Harris run was utilizing Doug Emhoff, showing him arsenic this feminist ally, baking up his credentials arsenic an state to women and that conscionable enraged them," Boswell said. 

"I quoted 1 of them successful the portion saying this, that she thought that it was disgusting, that they were portraying him this way, erstwhile successful fact, these friends knew what had truly happened." 

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The pistillate who was allegedly slapped is described by the Daily Mail arsenic a palmy New York lawyer and is identified lone by the pseudonym "Jane." 

The incidental was alleged to person occurred successful 2012 portion Emhoff and Jane were successful a valet enactment astatine a Cannes Film Festival successful Nice, France.    

"Jane got into a cab. The valet, either with €100 that she slipped him oregon the information that determination was this home quality going connected apparently, ushered her into a car, but past Doug forced his mode successful too," Boswell recalled the alleged story. "That's what the friends told me. That's erstwhile she got truly scared. Jane called her antheral person who was successful New York astatine the time. So, it was benignant of bedtime for him, but helium took this call, and she told him what had happened. The adjacent time she questioned Doug astir it, and helium seemed to beryllium wholly nonchalant astir it. He utilized immoderate tennis metaphor due to the fact that he's into tennis. So, Jane slapped him backmost erstwhile helium slapped her, and she slapped him backmost doubly similar this, 1 with each hand. Doug said, 'You got 1 down the enactment and crossed the court. So, it's nary large deal.' That's each helium had to accidental astir it, and truthful Jane, of course, instantly broke up with him and ne'er saw him again. They left. They went location separately. " 

The allegation was made to the Daily Mail by 3 radical who described themselves arsenic Jane's friends and who shared their recollections of the incident, on with question itineraries and correspondence betwixt Jane and Emhoff to corroborate the story. All 3 requested anonymity retired of fearfulness of imaginable retaliation from Emhoff.  

"Those sources were each independently talking to america and their accounts intimately corroborated each other," Boswell said. "So, that's portion of what gave maine the assurance successful this story. "

One person said Jane told her astir the alleged incidental astatine the time.  

"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 person — described by the Daily Mail arsenic a New York businessman — besides gave his recollection of the alleged slap. 

"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." 

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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. 

The 3rd root said that she had asked Jane if Emhoff had ever apologized and was told that helium had not, but that "he commented astir the deed she gave him. It was a tennis metaphor. But nary apology astatine all." 

According to the Daily Mail's sources, Jane and Emhoff had been dating for astir 3 months earlier the reported travel to France. Emhoff allegedly chopped the travel disconnected aboriginal and returned to LA for his daughter's 13th birthday.  

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"Documents were precise important," Boswell said. "They helped beryllium that firstly, the relationship, you know, we've got this photograph of them together. We had different worldly similar that. Then, the email really references the information that Doug had to permission aboriginal due to the fact that helium had to get backmost to L.A. successful clip for his daughter's birthday. Her day is May 29th. Their formation was scheduled to permission connected May 29th. So, you tin spot that matched up. We got the formation details, and you tin spot they took a layover formation to instrumentality them to Nice. It each added up with what each of the sources were saying. Those sources were each independently talking to america and their accounts intimately corroborated each other. So, that's portion of what gave maine the assurance successful this story."

Emhoff was joined to his archetypal woman from 1992 to 2009. The marriage ended pursuing his matter with their children's nanny, who helium got pregnant. Emhoff met now-Vice President Kamala Harris successful 2013 erstwhile she was serving arsenic California lawyer general, and they were joined successful 2014. 

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.

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report.