Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend said she was left “embarrassed and humiliated” when he slapped her following an event at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
The woman, a New York attorney identified only as “Jane,” broke her silence weeks after her disturbing claims emerged, telling the Daily Mail that she trying to persuade a valet to give her and Emhoff special treatment when her beau struck her in the face.
“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 2-3 a.m.,” she told the Daily Mail. “He slaps me so hard I spin around, and I’m in utter shock.”
“There had been no fight, no argument,” she added. “In that moment, his mask had dropped and I saw his dark side.”
Associates of Jane had come forward earlier this month with the allegations against Emhoff.
A spokesperson has vehemently denied the accusations, telling Semafor, “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”
