Democratic Politicians' Husbands Make Headlines in New York

Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff and Pete Buttigieg's husband Chasten Buttigieg raised a record $321,000 at a sold-out event on Fire Island, a famous LGBTQ+ summering spot second only to Provincetown, Massachusetts. The US Secret Service was involved in smuggling Emhoff on and off the island. Vanity Fair reported on the event, and Esquire magazine columnist Kal Penn wrote that Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is the Democrats' "best chance for expanding the electorate and e..

Doug Emhoff, an entertainment lawyer, had an extramarital affair approximately 15 years ago while married to film producer Kerstin Emhoff, with whom he had two children. The affair was with a teacher at The Willows Community School in Culver City, Calif., the private school his children attended. Emhoff and Kerstin divorced in 2009, but they "worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side." Emhoff later married VP Kamala Harris in 2014. The Biden campaign was aw..