AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Ruby Rippey breaks silence on Newsom affair, says Kamala Harris urged her to stay quiet
Gavin Newsom's former mistress has published a detailed account of their affair in Vanity Fair, and claims then-District Attorney Kamala Harris privately counseled her to say nothing when the scandal broke. Ruby Rippey, who served as appointments secretary to then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, laid out the relationship in a first-person essay that disputes key […] The post Ruby Rippey breaks silence on Newsom affair, says Kamala Harris urged her to stay quiet appeared first on American Almanac .
Gavin Newsom's former mistress has published a detailed account of their affair in Vanity Fair, and claims then-District Attorney Kamala Harris privately counseled her to say nothing when the scandal broke. Ruby Rippey, who served as appointments secretary to then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, laid out the relationship in a first-person essay that disputes key parts of Newsom's own telling and pulls Harris directly into the aftermath. Rippey says Harris, who was San Francisco's top prosecutor at the time, told her to "pause" and turn down a book deal rather than speak publicly about what happened. The essay, published Tuesday in Vanity Fair, recounts an affair that began at City Hall, stretched across months, and ended only after…Open