Ex-aide who had affair with Newsom reflects on power imbalance in new essay

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

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

Former Newsom staffer Ruby Rippey described her stunning affair with then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in gross detail within a Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday.

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.