Aide who had affair with Gavin Newsom — while married to his campaign manager — breaks her silence

Newsom’s affair with Ruby Rippey rocked political circles in California at the time

Before she was a women’s activist railing against the patriarchy, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s now-wife callously blamed his female underling for an affair that nearly derailed his career — according to a bombshell essay penned by his ex-lover Ruby Rippey. After the affair exploded into the open in 2007, Jennifer Siebel Newsom,

A former aide to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is revisiting their decades-old affair that rocked San Francisco politics, sharing details of the relationship in a Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday. The essay by Ruby Rippey, who worked as Newsom’s appointments secretary when he was mayor of San Francisco, brought t

Ruby Rippey discusses her substance abuse, the extramarital affair with her then-boss in the mid-aughts and the public blowback to its revelation.

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks out after new revelations from his former partner Ruby Rippey.

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 v

Ruby Rippey has stayed mostly quiet since her relationship with the San Francisco mayor rocked the city. Not anymore.

When news of her affair with Gavin Newsom exploded into the public eye, it was only the outward mark of a long-rippling private implosion. In the wreckage of the scandal, Ruby Rippey faced her demons but lost her voice. Twenty years later, she is ready to share her story.