Add The California Post on Google Gov. Gavin Newsom has spoken out after his former mistress described their fling in explosive detail in a new tell-all piece on Tuesday.
“The governor acknowledged his role and publicly apologized for his conduct nearly two decades ago when he was still mayor. In the time since, he met his wife, started a family and has focused on serving Californians,” his office stated.
“He addressed this chapter of his life, including in his memoir, and out of respect for everyone involved, does not have anything further to add.”
Newsom famously confessed the ordeal to the public in a stunning press conference. At the time of the affair, mistress Ruby Rippey was married to Newsom’s close friend and top aide Alex Tourk, and Newsom had yet to finalize his divorce from Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the US Ambassador to Greece.
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Rippey in her new piece recounted how the affair started in 2005, when she broke her sobriety at a wedding, downing wine and champagne until she ends up in a hallway with Newsom.
Then her memory begins to blur. Rippey says she ended up dipping her toes in a hot tub with Newsom before she made her way into his town car. On the way to The Carneros Inn, she says Newsom massages her feet.
That was the last thing Rippey remembered before she woke up the next morning “cold, almost shivering” and “soaked from the waist down.”
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