Newsom's memoir account of affair disputed by Ruby Rippey in Vanity Fair essay

Ruby Rippey, former appointments secretary to then-San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, published a first-person Vanity Fair essay on July 28, 2026, disputing a claim in Newsom's new memoir. Newsom writes he "came clean" to her husband, Alex Tourk; Rippey says she had already told Tourk the truth herself. The 2007 scandal resurfaces as Newsom eyes a 2028 presidential run.