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Ruby Rippey-Gibney — the former San Francisco City Hall aide whose affair with Gov. Gavin Newsom nearly upended his political career — will tell her side of the story for the first time in an upcoming Vanity Fair piece, The California Post has learned. Details of the piece remain unclear, but a source familiar with the matter said Rippey-Gibney intends to recount her perspective on the affair that rocked San Francisco politics in 2007 and has remained one of the most embarrassing moments in then-mayor of San Francisco Newsom’s life and career. The story comes as Newsom is widely expected...

According to a new documentary, disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wasn't brought down by his penchant for high-priced call girls. He wasn't brought down by committing questionable, if not illegal, bank transactions to pay for the call girls. He wasn't brought down by his misuse of the New York State Police for political purposes. No, in the world of "Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film" director Alex Gibney, "Spitzer's takedown of financial industry bigwigs... paved the way for his downfall." According to the New York Post: Gibney made no apology for his pro-Spitzer take and the audience, which included Police Commissioner...

(Kyodo) _ Frank Gibney, one of America's leading experts on Japan and Asia-Pacific affairs who founded and edited the Japanese-language Encyclopedia Britannica, died of heart failure on April 9 at his home in Santa Barbara, California, his family said. He was 81. President of the Pacific Basin Institute and a professor of politics at Pomona College, Gibney spent most of his life attempting to bridge the gap between Americans and the countries and cultures of East Asia. Gibney's books and films on Japan, China and other Pacific Basin countries have enjoyed broad readership, from his first book "Five Gentlemen of...