Former Aide Recounts 2000s Affair With Newsom
Ruby Rippey, Newsom’s former appointments secretary, recounts a detailed account of an affair with Gavin Newsom from his San Francisco mayoralty in a first-person essay published via Vanity Fair, a story the Times notes resurfaced as Newsom nears a possible 2028 presidential bid and amid past public acknowledgment of the rumors in 2007.