Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend, three friends have told Dailymail.com.

The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around, while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France.

One of her friends told DailyMail.com that the woman called him immediately after the incident, sobbing in her cab, and described the alleged assault.

DailyMail.com is not naming the woman, who is a successful New York attorney, but will refer to her by the pseudonym ‘Jane’.

A second friend said Jane, who had been dating Emhoff for three months, also told her about the alleged violence at the time.

A third friend told DailyMail.com that Jane first told her in 2014 that she had dated Emhoff, and recounted the full story of his alleged abuse in 2018, when then senator Harris was in the news after grilling Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a Senate hearing over sexual assault allegations.

The friends, who all asked not to be named for fear of retaliation by Emhoff, shared with DailyMail.com pictures of him and Jane together from 2012, and other documents and communications corroborating elements of the story.

The shocking claims follow revelations by DailyMail.com that Emhoff cheated on his first wife and mother of his two kids around 2008, allegedly impregnating his daughter’s nanny who also worked as her grade school teacher.

Emhoff admitted the affair with the nanny and teacher, Najen Naylor, after DailyMail.com published the story last month.

All three of Jane’s friends said she also told them about a disturbing alleged incident during her relationship with the Second Gentleman, in which Emhoff nonchalantly admitted to impregnating Naylor.

Emhoff told Jane that the nanny accused him of causing her to have a miscarriage, the friends claimed.

According to the friends, Emhoff did not say how he was allegedly responsible for the miscarriage, and he told Jane that the nanny’s claims were false.

But the Second Gentleman allegedly confessed to Jane that he paid Naylor a settlement of around $80,000, and had the nanny sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

Emhoff was previously dubbed by Democrats as a ‘wife guy’ and a ‘mensch’, a Yiddish term for an honorable, kind man. He has also spoken out in media interviews about being an ally to women and against toxic masculinity.

In a fawning interview on Sunday, MSNBC host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki told Emhoff that he ‘reshaped the perception of masculinity’ – despite his admitted affair with his daughter’s nanny and teacher.

‘I’ve always been like this,’ Emhoff said to Psaki. ‘To me, it’s the right thing to do, support women.’

These allegations strike to the heart of his benevolent image, promoted by the Harris presidential campaign.

Jane’s friends said she was given tickets by wealthy friends to go to the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Gala Dinner, an elite charity auction filled with top celebrities and Hollywood executives, held on May 24, 2012 at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes, near Cannes in Southern France.

The alleged incident purportedly took place after the two attended amfAR’s Cinema Against AIDS event (pictured) at Hotel Du Cap in the South of France in May 2012, where model Heidi Klum and now disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein were among the guests (pictured)

Attendees that year included Kim Kardashian, Heidi Klum and other A-list stars 

The elite charity auction was held at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc in Antibes, southern France 

Attendees that year included model Cara Delevingne, actors Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin, designer Karl Lagerfeld, singer Kylie Minogue, actress Kirsten Dunst, socialite Paris Hilton, and top amfAR supporter, now-disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

The friends said Jane brought her then boyfriend, Emhoff, as a plus one.

One of Jane’s friends, a top New York businessman, said he was at home getting ready for bed that night when he got an unexpected phone call from her.

‘It was hard to hear her because she was sobbing,’ he said. ‘She told me she was with a guy and he hit her.

‘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. She was in the car with the guy at the time.

‘I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know whether to call the French police. I couldn’t get a hold of her after calling back.’

He said he still had a ‘vivid’ memory of the troubling conversation from 12 years ago.

‘In later conversations, but pretty contemporaneous with that, she told me more about the guy,’ he added.

‘It was something like 3am. They were trying to get out of there and they both had been drinking. There was a gigantic line for taxis.

‘[Jane] went up to one of the valet guys, offered him 100 Euros or whatever, to get to the head of the line. She told me she put her hand on his shoulder. Doug apparently thought that she was flirting, and came over and slapped her in the face.

‘She slapped him back.

‘My impression is that he had a lot to drink. She was sobbing [on the phone afterwards], but she wasn’t slurring her words.

‘She told me that she broke up with him that night.’

A second friend, another female New York attorney, said Jane told her about the alleged attack at the time – and said it came out of nowhere.

‘They had dinner. She said Doug was very charming, and it was lovely. Then I believe it was between 2-3am, it was still raging, but she was wearing four-inch heels and a floor-length gown, so it was time to depart,’ the lawyer said.

‘She said there’d been no fight before he hit her. You would have thought it was this fairytale trip.

‘She put her hand on the valet’s shoulder, and as she was talking to him, Doug comes up.

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

‘She was so furious, she slapped him on one side, and then on the other cheek with the other hand.’

The three friends said that as Jane tried to leave following the alleged assault, Emhoff forced his way into the cab with her.

‘All of a sudden the car was there and they were ushering her into the car,’ the attorney friend said.

‘She said she wanted to go back to the hotel without him. But while she was shutting the door, he forced himself into the car, which she did not want.

‘I think she asked him ‘what the f*** was that all about?’ in the car, and the only thing she could really get out of him was that he thought she was hitting on the valet.

‘[Jane] told me she was so embarrassed. She couldn’t believe he is the person that he is, and that it turned into this trailer trash moment.

‘It woke her up about the self-delusion she was having, explaining away the teacher story. She realized he was bad news. This was the first time she saw his ugly side.