Ruby Rippey breaks cover after salacious essay exposed Gavin Newsom affair details

Ruby Rippey, the former lover of Gov.Gavin Newsom who reignited one of California’s biggest political scandals with a bombshell Vanity Fair essay Tuesday, was spotted walking her dog just hours after the story went viral.Dressed casually, Rippey appeared carefree and relaxed as she enjoyed a sunny afternoon near her Marin County home following publication of the essay, which thrust her decades-old affair with Newsom back into the national spotlight.Rippey served as an aide to Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco and was married at the time to his campaign manager and close friend, Alex Tourk.In the essay, Rippey accuses Newsom of sanitizing one of the defining scandals of his political career, arguing the governor reshaped key details of their affair in his memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” which was released as the governor is widely expected to mount a 2028 presidential campaign.Newsom described the relationship as “the stupidest and also briefest of affairs,” writing that Rippey “was among a group of staffers who came to my apartment for a party.

She was the last to leave.”But Rippey said reading the memoir left her with “a familiar feeling … of being written about by someone who assumes I won’t answer.”“He describes it as ‘the briefest of affairs.’ His sister, he notes, observed that I was ‘hanging a bit too close,'” Rippey wrote.Instead, the affair appears to have lasted for some time and sexual encounters occurred in multiple places and overnight stays.She also disputed Newsom’s account of how her husband learned about the affair, challenging his suggestion that he was the one who came clean to Tourk.“That detail — subtle but significant — is the one that stays with me,” Rippey wrote.“It reads — to me, at least — as a version of events that gives him credit for something I had already done.

Technically defensible, perhaps, but one that leaves the unmistakable impression that he, not I, was the one who told A...