Former Gavin Newsom aide shares fresh details of affair

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A former aide to Gavin Newsom has publicly shared for the first time her full account of their affair, which took place more than two decades ago when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco. In a new essay published in Vanity Fair on Tuesday, Ruby Rippey writes about her struggles with alcoholism, substance abuse and her relationship with Newsom while she worked as his appointments secretary and was married to his deputy chief of staff and later the manager of the mayor’s re-election campaign. The essay provides the most detailed look yet at Rippey’s relationship with Newsom, now in the final year of his second term as governor of California…

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