{"id":416562,"date":"2026-07-29T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:18:20","slug":"former-gavin-newsom-staffer-goes-into-detail-about-affair-when-he-was-san-francisco-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416562\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gavin Newsom staffer goes into detail about affair when he was San Francisco mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 A former staffer of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> went into detail about an affair she had with him while he was mayor of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The essay was published in Vanity Fair<\/a> earlier this week by the former staffer, Ruby Rippey.<\/p>\n

She details her struggle with alcoholism and her relationship with Newsom when she was his appointments secretary.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor my former boss, it is a footnote in a longer arc of ascent,\u201d she wrote. \u201cFor me, it is the fracture that split my life into before and after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom has not denied the affair and admitted the relationship was in 2007.<\/a><\/p>\n

In his own memoir, he said that he confessed to Rippey\u2019s husband about the affair, describing it as \u201cthe briefest of affairs,\u201d according to The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rippey said that she is sober. She did leave her job working for Newsom and went to rehab.<\/p>\n

She said that then-District Attorney Kamala Harris during that time gave her advice to take a pause while she was getting pressured to speak out about the whole incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt turns out to be the best advice I receive,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI am newly sober and still inside the wreckage \u2013 unable to make sense of anything, let alone speak clearly about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 A former staffer of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom went into detail about an affair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-416562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}