Newsom’s Former Aide Lifts Lid on Explosive Affair

Mario Tama / Getty Images A former staffer who had an affair with Gavin Newsom is setting the record straight two decades after the scandal rocked Democratic politics. Ruby Rippey, 54, penned a first-person essay in Vanity Fair Tuesday, marking the first time the former aide to the California governor has shared her version of events—just as the 58-year-old gears up for a likely 2028 presidential bid. In 2007, Newsom, then the mayor of San Francisco, famously stood before reporters at City…