Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, allegedly slapped ex for ‘flirting’ with another man during drunken night out: report

Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is being accused of slapping an ex-girlfriend following a drunken argument in Cannes, France, in 2012, three of the alleged victim’s friends told the Daily Mail Wednesday.

The second gentleman — who has been married to Harris since 2014 — allegedly struck his then-girlfriend while in a valet line at Cannes Film Festival due to a dispute about her “flirting” with another man.

A male friend of the woman, identified as “Jane” by the Daily Mail, claimed his pal called him shortly after the incident to share what allegedly occurred.

Jane reportedly explained at the time that she had approached a valet worker to give him 100 euros in order to get ahead of the line and put her hand on his shoulder, allegedly setting off Emhoff.

“Doug apparently thought that she was flirting, and came over and slapped her in the face,” the source claimed to the outlet.

The friend said Jane was allegedly “sobbing” on the other line, which makes the unnamed source “livid” thinking back on what allegedly occurred.

“It was very clear what she was telling me. She said she was with a guy, her date, she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and he hit her,” he further claimed.

A second friend, who claimed Jane also told her about the alleged incident, further described how Emhoff’s ex was blindsided by what allegedly took place.

“She said he turned her around by her right shoulder, and she was completely caught off guard,” the source said. “He hauled up and slapped her so hard, she spun around. She said she was in utter shock.”

The second friend claimed a “furious” Jane retaliated, noting she “slapped him on one side, and then on the other cheek with the other hand.”

A third friend, who also claimed to know about the alleged incident, told the Daily Mail that they did not know if what Emhoff allegedly did was an “aggressive slap or a punch,” but it was enough for Jane to “never forget” and want to end the relationship “immediately,’

Jane’s friends claimed to the Daily Mail that she wanted to leave without Emhoff and go back to the hotel “without him” after he allegedly assaulted her, but he allegedly “forced himself” into her car.

The first pal claimed that Jane asked her then-boyfriend “what the f–k was that all about?,” referring to the alleged slap, and he allegedly responded by saying he thought “she was hitting on the valet.”

“[Jane] told me she was so embarrassed,” the male friend claimed to the Daily Mail. “She couldn’t believe he is the person that he is, and that it turned into this trailer-trash moment.

“She realized he was bad news. This was the first time she saw his ugly side.”

The third friend, who is reportedly a female top executive, gushed that Jane is “a gorgeous, strong woman and you would never expect somebody to hit her.”

She also claimed Emhoff never apologized to Jane, and instead allegedly made a tennis joke the next day about how she retaliated, saying, “‘Don’t worry about it, you got one across the court and down the line.'”

The third friend said they perceived that comment to mean that the couple was “now even.”

Photos of Jane — who is a New York-based attorney who has reportedly always leaned Democrat — spending time with the second gentleman were provided to the Daily Mail as further proof of their past romance. However, the relationship reportedly only lasted three months.

Jane reportedly met Emhoff on Match.com when he was divorcing his first wife, Kerstin Emhoff, with whom he shares son Cole, 29, and daughter Ella, 25.

Jane reportedly told her friends that she thinks Doug “love bombed” her, since he allegedly introduced her to his parents, kids and flew her out on lavish trips very early on.

It was also a red flag that he copped to cheating on Kerstin with a nanny, which the second gentleman recently admitted to in a statement to CNN.

“During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions,” he told the news outlet in August.

“I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side.”

One of Jane’s friends told the Daily Mail of Doug, “He’s holding himself out to be something he absolutely is not. And that’s bulls–t. I feel like people should know who their leaders really are.”

Page Six has reached out to Harris and Doug’s rep for comment but did not immediately hear back.

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Milton now a Category 1 hurricane. Florida Gulf Coast preps for massive evacuations

Florida’s west coast is preparing for a potentially massive evacuation ahead of a strike from Milton, which rapidly intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday afternoon.

The Gulf coast, still reeling from massive coastal flooding from Helene —Tampa Bay’s worst hurricane in a century — remained in the crosshairs of Milton, a small but fast-strengthening storm expected to become a major Category 3 or even 4 hurricane before it bulldozes the Gulf Coast.

At 5 p.m. Sunday, the center of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast track went through Sarasota and cut across the state south of Orlando. It’s a southern bump in the track compared to earlier in the morning, with more shifts — potentially back north or further south — expected over the next few days.

Nearby communities were already swamped by record storm surge from the passage of Helene just over a week ago. Milton, on its current track, could potentially bring much worse. The Category 1 hurricane, packing winds of 85 mph Sunday evening, was expected to quickly strengthen into a major hurricane over the hot waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The latest forecast calls for Milton to hit Category 4 over the open waters of the Gulf before slowing down to a Category 3 with a much broader footprint ahead of landfall, potentially spreading storm surge and high winds over a much bigger area. Landfall is expected sometime Wednesday evening to early Thursday.

“I’d urge Floridians to take this storm very seriously. Do not get wedded to the cone,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Sunday morning press conference. “Anybody on the west coast of Florida… you have the potential for major impacts.”

The NHC dispatched Hurricane Hunter planes into Milton and could begin posting hurricane and storm surge watches as early as Sunday evening. Some counties began calling for mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday. In Manatee County, mandatory evacuation orders begin Monday at 2 p.m., and Pinellas called for its first wave of mandatory evacuations — people in longterm residential healthcare facilities in Zone A.

Kevin Guthrie, head of Florida’s Department of Emergency Management, urged Floridians to prepare to leave if asked to do so by local officials, ahead of potentially “life-threatening” amounts of storm surge.

“We are preparing for the largest evacuation we have seen since, most likely, 2017 Hurricane Irma,” he said.

DeSantis declared a state of emergency in 51 counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward, and directed state agencies to help expedite the cleanup in counties that still have piles of debris from Helene on their roads. The state sent high water rescue vehicles to coastal western counties and is busy wrapping fire stations, hospitals and sewage plants with hundreds of feet of flood protection dams.

The governor warned that, although nearly all power has been restored in the two weeks since Helene hit, this storm could bring even more outages deeper inland.

“If we do have an I-4 storm, we’re going to have a lot of power outages. That’s something people should be prepared for,” he said. “This is not a good track for the state of Florida.”

Widespread flooding likely

For South Florida, the impact will depend on Milton’s path. Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties remain out of the NHC’s “cone of concern” early Sunday but that could change. At the very least, heavy rains could drench much of the region, starting Wednesday.

Much of the region was already under flash flood warnings with eight inches or more of rain possible in some areas from a separate system that is expected to cause street — and possibly home — flooding. If Milton’s path shifts south, tropical storm-force winds could sweep the area as well.

Just before landfall, forecasters predict Milton could be a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph sustained winds moving at a pretty fast clip, 15 mph. That pace could help it hold onto its strength as it crosses the peninsula. The forecast calls for Milton to still be a category 1 hurricane by the time it emerges on Florida’s east coast, likely south of Daytona Beach.

That size and speed make storm surge a real threat to the West Coast — again.

On its latest track, Milton could bring more than 10 feet of storm surge to the inside of Tampa Bay and to Bradenton and Longboat Key to the south, according to a visualization from Louisiana State University’s storm surge model.

“Bottom line is, you’re potentially looking at storm surge that is more significant than what we saw with Hurricane Helene,” DeSantis said Sunday morning.

The hurricane center has not released official projections for how much storm surge the region might see, but it’s clear the numbers will be high near and to the south of landfall.

Milton continued to grow stronger on Sunday as it rapidly intensified into a hurricane. The latest projections call for the storm to hit Category 4 in the open Gulf of Mexico before weakening slightly to a Category 3 as it approaches Florida’s west coast.

“Intensity guidance is about as bullish as I’ve seen in this part of the basin, with almost everything showing a peak intensity of category 4 or 5 in the southern Gulf of Mexico in a day or two,” NHC forecaster Eric Blake wrote in the Sunday 5 p.m. update. “The regional hurricane models are showing the system growing even if it weakens, and we are expecting Milton to be a large hurricane at landfall, with very dangerous impacts spread out over a big area.”

A weaker storm may mean slightly lessened wind impacts, but a weaker storm is also a broader storm. That could send heavy rains and high storm surges over a wide area, similar to how Hurricane Helene’s effects could be felt hundreds of miles from the eye.

The same factors that could cause Milton to grow could also determine when and where Milton makes the turn to the northeast, which is expected on Tuesday. Craig Setzer, chief meteorologist for Royal Caribbean Group, said he’s watching it very closely.

“If the turn is delayed, then Milton could end up coming ashore well south of Tampa. However, if the turn is earlier, then it could come in north of Tampa,” he wrote on Twitter. “Either way, Tampa remains in the middle of the threat, and more importantly, we can’t wait until Tuesday to start preps, they need to be started now.”

“That’s the issue with hurricane preps, we often must prepare over a larger area well before we know for sure exactly who will get hit the hardest.”

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