According to the report, the incident happened when the woman, described as a successful New York attorney and identified only by the pseudonym ‘Jane’, was found flirting with a valet.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff denies report he slapped then-girlfriend at 2012 Cannes Film Festival Investors braced for a key monthly jobs report, with the Middle East crisis and a return to work at US ports also in high focus.

The second gentleman was accused of assault in an alleged fit of jealousy by three friends of the woman who spoke to a British tabloid.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, has denied a report alleging that he slapped an ex-girlfriend across the face so hard that she spun around.The Daily Mail reported Wednesday that three friends anonymously said that Emhoff had struck the woman—who was also not identified by name—while the two waited in a valet line at France’s Cannes Film Festival in May 2012.

Several unnamed sources accused second gentleman Doug Emhoff of hitting a woman in the face while waiting in line at a valet in 2012, according to the Daily Mail. Emhoff, husband of Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris,