--- description: Report indicates it was Daniel Inouye title: Kirsten Gillibrand Harasser Revealed as Daniel Inouye in Report image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52a81dbfc7532118/6986a49fadae44adf754514d/daniel-inouye.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Congress](/tag/congress/) ## Congress Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Gillibrand’s Harasser Revealed as Late Hawaii Senator  by [Jay Newton-Small](/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 22, 2014 3:55 PM CUT  Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, is interviewed in his U.S. Capitol office on July 26, 2012. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, is interviewed in his U.S. Capitol office on July 26, 2012.Chris Maddaloni—CQ-Roll Call  by [Jay Newton-Small](/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 22, 2014 3:55 PM CUT Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) made waves in her recent book when she revealed that one of her “favorite” older U.S. senators once told her not to “lose too much weight now” after having her second child because “I like my girls chubby.” Gillibrand [told TIME](http://time.com/3306993/kirsten-gillibrand-porky-sexism/ "undefined") two weeks ago that she wouldn’t name which senator had said this to her. “It’s less important who they are than what they said,” she said, adding she that hoped relaying the story would make women feel more comfortable when similar things happened to them. But [The New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/09/22/ "undefined"), citing unnamed sources, reports that that the Senator in question was the late Daniel Inouye, the legendary Hawaii Democrat and World War II veteran who passed away in 2012\. The _Times_ also points out that Inouye had a dark chapter in his history: In 1992 his hairdresser accused him of forcing her to have sex with him. Gillibrand’s office declined to comment on the report. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3418545/kirsten-gillibrand-daniel-inouye/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3418545/kirsten-gillibrand-daniel-inouye/"},"headline":"Gillibrand’s Harasser Revealed as Late Hawaii Senator","datePublished":"2014-09-22T15:55:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:20:12.462Z","description":"Report indicates it was Daniel Inouye","url":"https://time.com/3418545/kirsten-gillibrand-daniel-inouye/","keywords":["Congress","women","Senate","kirsten gillibrand","sexual harassment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52a81dbfc7532118/6986a49fadae44adf754514d/daniel-inouye.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jay Newton-Small","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52a81dbfc7532118/6986a49fadae44adf754514d/daniel-inouye.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, is interviewed in his U.S. Capitol office on July 26, 2012.","caption":"Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, is interviewed in his U.S. Capitol office on July 26, 2012.","creditText":"Chris Maddaloni—CQ-Roll Call","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3418545/kirsten-gillibrand-daniel-inouye/","name":"Gillibrand’s Harasser Revealed as Late Hawaii Senator"}}]}] ```