The Daily Mail (not a good start) reported Wednesday that three friends anonymously (very convenient) said that Emhoff had struck the woman—who was also not identified by name (farce)—while the two waited in a valet line at France’s Cannes Film Festival in May 2012.
In a statement to Semafor, a spokesperson for Emhoff denied the allegation, saying, “this report is untrue” and “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”
One of the friends reportedly told (oh dear) the Mail that the woman, a “successful New York attorney,” called him—sobbing in a cab—to share the incident immediately after it happened. Another friend also said she was told soon after (in the schoolyard I assume)
The third friend reportedly said she was told in 2018 (six years later...555), when Harris was making headlines for her grilling Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh over his sexual assault allegations during a Senate hearing.