Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In an essay for Vanity Fair published Tuesday, Ruby Rippey, 54, told how the affair with the now-California governor, in 2005-2006, tore her life apart. I stare at the screen for a moment, then press send and turn off my phone,” Rippey wrote. “During that time, he requests a meeting with the mayor, who is still in Davos at the World Economic Forum,” Rippey wrote. It was the stupidest and also briefest of affairs,” Newsom wrote in his memoir.