Posted on 07/28/2026 9:41:46 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Gov. Gavin Newsom's former lover is pulling back the curtain on their affair ... revealing the lengths she went to get him alone -- and the advice Kamala Harris gave her when the scandal exploded.
Ruby Rippey writes in a new Vanity Fair essay that professional boundaries with Newsom began crumbling while she worked as his secretary during his time as San Francisco mayor.
Rippey says she would scan Newsom's calendar for openings, show up wherever he was expected to be and make sure he spotted her before slipping away. She says her phone would soon light up with a text asking, "Where are you?"
The location apparently didn't matter ... because Rippey says she always went to him ... whether at his Russian Hill penthouse, a private room inside a North Beach bar or the W Hotel in Los Angeles.
A rep for Newsom tells TMZ ... "The Governor acknowledged his role and publicly apologized nearly two decades ago when he was still mayor. In the time since, he met his wife, started a family and has focused on serving Californians."
The rep says Newsom "addressed this chapter of his life, including in his memoir, and, out of respect for everyone involved, has nothing further to add."
Rippey -- who at the time was married to Newsom's close friend and campaign manager, Alex Tourk -- says the relationship wasn't about love or romance. She describes it as another form of intoxication during her struggle with alcohol and cocaine ... fueled by proximity to power and the feeling of being chosen.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I read the first 5 words of the headline and thought: Wow. When was Kamala Newsom’s lover?
It’s bad enough she orally pleased Willie, but Gavin too?
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GROSS.
Excuse me, some of us are trying to enjoy our lunch out here!!
Nice looking, that Ruby Rippey.
😊
C’mon! Grammar and punctuation rules are so 20th-century....
Sort of reminds one of gas during explosive diarrhea.
I spend a lot of time trying to read headlines that seem to be written in a way that defies understanding. Sentence structure must have been deleted in our DEI education system. SMH.
The advice Kamala gave her was, “wait until the presidential election campaign gets closer.” 😁
Ruby Rippey looks like she has a mouth out of joint.
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