Emhoff’s Ex-Girlfriend Speaks Out: ‘He Slaps Me So Hard I Spin Around’

Emhoff’s Ex-Girlfriend Speaks Out: ‘He Slaps Me So Hard I Spin Around’

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend spoke to The Daily Mail, confirming the story about him hitting her at an event in Cannes.

The woman, who The Daily Mail refers to as “Jane,” came forward due to the media portraying Emhoff as a loving husband and feminist.

She told the publication:

‘I had already planned and paid to go to this event, and he was already invited, so I went ahead and brought him,’ she said.

She described the trip as a ‘fairytale’ at first. She mingled with A-list celebrities at the May 24 event, dressed in a red ball gown with Emhoff in a dapper tuxedo.

But she said it turned into a nightmare at around 3am when they joined a long and chaotic line for a taxi outside the Hotel du Cap event venue in Antibes to return to their lodgings in a neighboring town.

‘I decided I’m going to go up to the valet and give them 100 bucks, to get out of this line,’ Jane said.

‘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.

‘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.

‘There had been no fight, no argument. It had been a completely fantastic event. I am so furious. The only thing I could think to do was slap him back. I slapped him on one side, and on the other cheek with the other hand.

‘In that moment, his mask had dropped and I saw his dark side,’ she added.

‘All of a sudden the car is there, the valet is ushering me in.

‘I intended to go back to the hotel without him. So I was shutting the car door, but he forced his way into the car, which I did not want.

‘It’s dark. I don’t speak French, my friends we’re with are off having an amazing time. I’m embarrassed and humiliated that, this amazing experience turned into this violent spectacle.

‘I can’t believe he just slapped me. I think I said to him in the car, ‘What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you do that?’ And the only thing I could get out of him was he thought I was hitting on the valet.’

“Jane” also confirmed she called her businessman friend in New York after the abuse:

‘This was the first time I saw Doug’s ugly side,’ Jane said. ‘I was in shock. I wanted somebody to know where I was, and what happened. I was freaked out because I thought I knew this person. But I don’t, and he’s in the car with me.

‘I also wanted Doug to see me on the phone telling somebody.’

Emhoff also acted “weird” before the dinner:

‘We went outside and sat on the loungers,’ Jane said. ‘I’m in a bikini. He wanted to take a picture of me. I didn’t think anything of it.

‘Later on he sent me a couple of pictures. The picture he took of me did not include my head. I was like, ‘Where’s my head?’ And he was just giggling about it like a pubescent boy.

‘It was gross and I felt so humiliated. In retrospect I believe he was intentionally objectifying me to diminish me. That’s the kind of person he is.’

Beginning of the Relationship

“Jane” and Emhoff met on Match.com when she lived in New York and he resided in Los Angeles. They first met in New York, but he brought his son Cole to the first date.

“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,” she said. “So I agreed. In retrospect, it should have been a red flag.”

The it became more uncomfortable:

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.’

“Jane” said she had an “impression Emhoff still felt a debt to his ex.” She brought it up when she visited him in 2012.

Emhoff spilled everything:

‘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 flabbergasted. And I was taken aback by how matter of fact he could talk about it.

‘He tried to minimize it. He said there was no proof that the woman had become pregnant. He tried to make it seem like she was scamming him.

‘To be honest, I wanted to believe him at the time, because by all appearances this was turning into a serious relationship.

‘I had just met both his children, his parents and many people he worked with at Venable. But I did harbor reservations after this.’

“Jane” also said Emhoff told her about the $80,000 payoff to the nanny and made her sign an NDA.

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