Gavin Newsom’s former aide challenges his version of their affair

Ruby Rippey has stayed mostly quiet since her relationship with the San Francisco mayor rocked the city.

Gavin Newsom (D) is revisiting their decades-old affair that rocked San Francisco politics, sharing details of the relationship in a Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday.

Ruby Rippey, the woman whose affair with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom sparked a 2007 California political scandal, detailed the encounter step-by-step in a piece published Tuesday in Vanity Fair, while revealing the role former Vice President Kamala Harris played in advising her afterward.

The aide who had an affair with then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom while she was married to his campaign manager has spoken about the ordeal in detail for the first time in 20 years.