Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, ended his first marriage after he impregnated their children’s nanny.
Emhoff cheated on his first wife, Kerstin, with Najen Naylor, a blonde nanny who also taught at their children’s expensive private school. Naylor, 47, did not deny the story. She simply stated, “I’m kind of freaked out right now.”
A close friend with direct knowledge of the affair and pregnancy said that Naylor did not keep the child. However, Naylor’s social media shows a video of a mysterious baby girl named Brook in 2009, the year the baby would have been born.
Another friend, Stacey Brooks, who had twin boys around the same time as Naylor’s pregnancy, also did not deny the claims but said she would not divulge further information without Naylor’s permission.
This explosive news has reportedly caused panic in Harris’s campaign, just as she has overtaken Donald Trump in several polls and ramps up her final push to win over voters in November.
Emhoff, 59, and his ex-wife Kerstin, 57, ended their 16-year marriage in 2009 when she discovered the affair, according to sources. Their daughter Ella was 10 and son Cole was 15 at the time.
Sources claimed that after the affair, Naylor had to leave her job as a teacher at The Willows, an elite private elementary school in Culver City, California, where she had been teaching the Emhoff children and moonlighting as a nanny for the couple.
A mother who sent her children to the school before 2009 was aware of the affair and, though she was disgusted by Emhoff, had positive words for Naylor, who had taught and nannied her children. “She was a lovely person, a great teacher to my kids.”
In September 2009, Naylor posted a video on Facebook to ‘introduce’ three babies: Sawyer, Brook, and George, with the caption ‘Baby party!’. Sawyer and George are the boys of Stacey Brooks, who has been Naylor’s close friend since childhood. The third child, Brook, who appears slightly younger, does not seem to be Stacey’s daughter and does not appear in any later Facebook family photos. It is unclear who Brook’s mother is.
A search of Los Angeles County birth records showed no registrations for a ‘Brook Naylor’ born in 2008 or 2009, nor any babies born with the last name ‘Emhoff’ in those years.
Naylor’s LinkedIn page indicates she became the ‘Director of New Business Development’ at production company Broadway Video in 2011 and took her current role as ‘Senior Director, Original Entertainment Acquisition & Development’ at Audible in New York in 2018.
Naylor bought a waterfront house in the Hamptons in 2021 for $855,000, with a $684,000 mortgage during the COVID-19 pandemic. The four-bed, three-bath, refurbished barn is set away from the main road in Hampton Bays and is currently worth an estimated $1.4 million.
One source claimed that Emhoff had a financial settlement with Naylor and that she left her school job due to the hushed-up scandal. Naylor’s home is more than 100 miles from Audible’s Newark office, and she has been planning renovations, saving images for decorating the children’s rooms and other parts of her home.
The Emhoffs’ 2010 divorce settlement filed in a Los Angeles court indicates the couple shared costs of a nanny, private tutor, and private school fees.
Emhoff met Harris, then California’s Attorney General, when he was set up on a blind date by one of her friends in 2013. They married the following year.
Claims of Emhoff’s alleged affair were first aired on July 31 by right-wing activist and journalist Laura Loomer in a post on social media site X, though she did not name Naylor. Loomer claimed that five sources told her Emhoff cheated on his first wife, impregnating a teacher at The Willows school.