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Jasmine Ray, who served at City Hall in a $160,000-a-year job, had an undisclosed romance with Eric Adams years before he became mayor. In her memoir, she describes their relationship.
By Dana Rubinstein and William K. Rashbaum
Shortly after Eric Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in 2021, he texted his former lover, Jasmine Ray, and urgently asked her to meet him.
“I’m going to be mayor of New York City, and I don’t want to do this without you,” he wrote, in a message Ms. Ray recounted in a self-published book to be released on Sunday.
