THE EX-FIANCEE of California gubernatorial recall challenger Larry Elder accused him of brandishing a loaded pistol to menace her while high on marijuana. Alexandra Datig claims that she broke off the couple’s 18-month engagement afterward and regrets getting coerced into getting branded with a “Larry’s Girl” tattoo. ‘PHIL SPECTOR MOMENT’ “He was in the bedroom, […]
THE EX-FIANCEE of California gubernatorial recall challenger Larry Elder accused him of brandishing a loaded pistol to menace her while high on marijuana.
Alexandra Datig claims that she broke off the couple’s 18-month engagement afterward and regrets getting coerced into getting branded with a “Larry’s Girl” tattoo.
“He was in the bedroom, and I was standing by the door,” Datig told Politico.
She said they were conversing until Elder, who was allegedly inebriated from smoking marijuana “walked over to the nightstand, opened the door, took out the gun.’’
The now 51-year-old remembered it was a .45 pistol and it was also loaded.
“And he checked if it was loaded — while I was talking,’’ she said. “He wanted to make sure I saw that he had it.”
“It was an act of silent scorn — and anger,’’ she said.
Dating said she feared for her life and thought she might end up like Lana Clarkson who was shot dead in 2003 inside the mansion owned by Hollywood composer Phil Spector.
“For a minute there … I thought it was a Phil Spector moment,’’ she said.
“My fear was great, and I understood I needed to de-escalate.”
She said she feared she was going to be tossed out in the street so she tried to get away.
“I locked myself into the bedroom downstairs,” she told Politico.
Larry Elder, 69, a popular conservative talk radio show host who calls himself “Sage of South Central” – is currently ahead in the race to replace Democratic incumbent Gov. Newsom, although a large 40 per cent of likely voters “remain undecided,” according to a Berkeley IGS poll.
The recall election is set to occur on Sept. 14.
The candidate denied the accusations lodged by his former fiancee calling them “salacious.”
“I have never brandished a gun at anyone,” he wrote on Twitter.
“I grew up in South Central; I know exactly how destructive this type of behavior is.
“It’s not me, and everyone who knows me knows it’s not me.”
He continued: “These are salacious allegations.”
Elder called the effort to disparage him as an act of “personal destruction.”
“I am not going to dignify this with a response – it’s beneath me.”
Datig said she became acquainted with Elder during a shindig at the Playboy Mansion in the early 2000s.
The two would strike up a romance and by 2013 became engaged, according to Politico.
Elder allegedly leaned on her to prove her love for him by getting a “Larry’s Girl” tattoo and had her design it to feature the Superman logo, Politico reported.
The tattoo on her lower back was reportedly shown off in a large nude portrait of her at their home.
Elder in turn would reciprocate with a tattoo pledging his love for her.
“He never did,’’ she explained.
Datig explained the tattoo was a big regret and that she has since tried to it removed.
After she called it quits with him following the alleged gun incident, Datig alleges she was pressed to sign a non-disclosure agreement and informed by Elder’s assistant that “all Larry’s girlfriends did.”
She complied, telling the outlet she was “terrified” and “ran for my life.”
The woman who almost married Elder has been in the spotlight before.
She was the lead witness and informant in the case against notorious Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
Datig recounted how she was paid $10,000 daily, showered in baubles and flying first class as one of Fleiss’s working escorts, CBS-LA reported.
Coming forward now, only a couple weeks before Californians decide to keep Newsom or vote in a replacement, isn’t lost on Datig.
She explained to Politico that she was Elder’s former producer and also instrumental in launching in drawing more than 3 million views to The Elder Statement blog.
Dating knows by coming forward she is opening herself up to be a target to be thought of as “the woman who turned in Heidi Fleiss,’’ or “an ex-hooker.”
But Datig’s reasons are out of fear that Elder’s momentum at the polls could actually pull off the political victory.
“I am doing this because I care about California,” she said.
She’s publicly demanding Elder release her from the terms of a nondisclosure agreement she signed to keep quiet about their relationship.
“I can’t speak to you about my concerns because I am bound by a nondisclosure agreement,” she said during a video she posted on Twitter.
“Unlike Hollywood, there are no secrets in politics,” she added.
“Please help me call on Larry Elder to let me out of my NDA.”
She then closes: “Voters have a right to know the truth about who they are electing for governor of California.”
