Breaking two decades of silence, a woman who had a high-profile romantic affair with Gavin Newsom revealed that Kamala Harris privately stepped in to urge her to stay completely quiet just as the explosive 2007 political scandal initially broke out.
Ruby Rippey, 54, published her first-person account on Tuesday in a Vanity Fair essay, landing as both Newsom and Harris weigh 2028 presidential runs. The timing turns a scandal many viewed as settled into a live question about power, workplace conduct, and how the party's two biggest names handled it.
