Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former mistress Ruby Rippey described their fling in an explosive tell-all Vanity Fair piece on Tuesday — and revealed how another California political player, Kamala Harris, played a role.
The scandal, when it was publicly revealed in 2007, nearly caused Newsom’s downfall early in his political career as then-mayor of San Francisco.
Newsom famously confessed the ordeal to the public in a stunning press conference that same year. At the time of the affair, Rippey was married to Newsom’s close friend and top aide Alex Tourk.