Given that jennifer has. He said “they are friends of. — the affair, first reported thursday by the san francisco chronicle, apparently took place in late 2005 while ms. In 2007, newsom publicly apologized for having an affair in 2005 with ruby rippey gibney, who was his commission appointments secretary. At the time, she was married to alex tourk,. — the year of newsom’s reelection campaign started with a bombshell january revelation that he’d had an extramarital affair with his own campaign manager’s wife ruby.