The woman, a New York attorney identified only as “Jane,” told the Daily Mail she was talking to a valet to try to persuade him to give her and Emhoff special treatment during a chaotic scene in a taxi line when her beau allegedly struck. Jane approached the valet to hand off the equivalent of $100 when she alleges Emhoff hit her unprovoked that night in May 2012.

“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 outlet. “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.”

Three friends of Jane had come forward earlier this month with the allegations against Emhoff, including two who heard it from her immediately after the alleged incident and one she told about six years later. Initially, she had declined to comment.

“What’s frightening for a woman that’s been on the other end of it, is watching this completely fabricated persona being portrayed,” Jane told the outlet of the type of public attention Emhoff has garnered.

“He’s being held out to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is utterly shocking.”

A spokesperson for Emhoff has vehemently denied the accusations, telling Semafor, “Any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”

Jane and Emhoff had met on Match.com in 2012 while she was residing in New York and he in Los Angeles, according to the report. The pair went on their first date in March of that year, and Emhoff invited his eldest son Cole to join them.

“In retrospect, it should have been a red flag,” she surmised, characterizing their fling as “an intense few months.”

“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 revealed. “He was totally love-bombing me. He grabbed me round the stomach and talked about wanting more babies.”

Both Jane and her husband were registered Democrats who backed President Biden in both the 2020 primary as well as the general election and donated over $10,000 to his campaign, per the report.

After Emhoff allegedly struck her during that booze-filled night in France, Jane remembers being utterly stunned and felt that the encounter had only cemented the apprehension she had about the future Second Gentleman.

“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,” she further recounted to the outlet. “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.”

After Emhoff allegedly struck her during that booze-filled night in France, Jane remembers being utterly stunned and felt that the encounter had only cemented the apprehension she had about the future Second Gentleman.

Jane explained that she doesn’t speak French and mused that the friends she was with were likely off “having an amazing time.”

“I’m embarrassed and humiliated that, this amazing experience turned into this violent spectacle,” she remembered thinking. “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.’”

During the cab ride, she made sure to reach out to a friend from New York to appraise him of what happened. That individual later corroborated her account.

“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,” she added. “I also wanted Doug to see me on the phone telling somebody.”

Prior to that May 2012 night out in France, Jane claims she had reservations about Emhoff after he told her about Najen Naylor, the nanny of his daughter Ella, with whom he cheated on his first wife. Daily Mail broke that story in August and Emhoff later fessed up to it.

She drew out that admission from Emhoff when pressing him about his divorce from Kerstin Mackin roughly three years prior while the two were on a trip in Los Angeles back in April 2012, about a month before the France trip.

“All I did was ask him one question, and he told me the whole story,” she said, recalling how he told her about knocking up the nanny. “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.