If you send me a story headlined “How I Blew Up My Life,” I will click. And former Gavin Newsom aide Ruby Rippey’s foray into the genre is quite a doozy. Here’s the beginning: “Nobody had been surprised when rumors about my affair surfaced…. Nearly everyone seemed to know except the one person who most needed to know: my husband. I had been sleeping with his boss, who was also mine, and the mayor of San Francisco.” Yes, she’s talking about Newsom, current governor of California and likely future presidential candidate. Though Newsom publicly admitted to the affair in 2007, Rippey hasn’t given her side of the story until now. Read on for her clear-eyed, absorbing account of how her alcoholism and her relationship with Newsom spiraled out of control—and how some very good advice from Kamala Harris helped Rippey begin to pick up the pieces.
Elsewhere, Joy Press returns to the Los Angeles courtroom where the murder case against musician D4vd is unfolding. |
HILLARY BUSIS,
FEATURES EDITOR |
When news of her affair with Gavin Newsom exploded into the public eye, it was only the outward mark of a long-rippling private implosion. In the wreckage of the scandal, Ruby Rippey faced her demons but lost her voice. Twenty years later, she shares her story with Vanity Fair. |
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VF reports from inside the courtroom as prosecutors argued that the musician stabbed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez to prevent her from derailing his meteoric career by revealing the sexual nature of their relationship. |
When The New York Times published a conversation between the conservative columnist and two writers about just how bad ladies have screwed up corporate culture with their presence, we felt we should engage. |
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After the shocking murder of four Idaho college kids in November 2022, a media frenzy exploded into their quiet town, boosting the image of upstart news reporters—but bringing along a new breed of web sleuth, conspiracy-minded, vindictive, and often dead wrong. |
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