Mayor Adams has been hitting the books.
Hizzoner mentioned Thursday that he “enjoyed reading” a ebook Jasmine Ray lately printed about their romantic relationship, which performed out earlier than he appointed her to a senior function in his administration.
“Jas has always led with integrity. Writing this book wasn’t easy, but she wanted people to understand the work, the mission, and the human side behind the headlines,” the mayor, who’s at the moment in Albania, wrote in a put up on X.
“I respect her for that and I enjoyed reading it. I hope all will read the book.”
The mayor’s endorsement of Ray’s tell-all, “Political Humanity,” comes after he deserted his bid for reelection final week as he confronted report low approval scores amid continued fallout from his federal corruption indictment and surrounding controversies.
Ray, who served within the newly-created function of Adams’ director of sports activities, wellness and recreation till she resigned earlier than the discharge of her ebook this previous weekend, wrote within the tell-all that she and the mayor dated between 2014 and 2016 after first assembly at a Brooklyn Nets sport.
He was Brooklyn’s borough president on the time and was on the time courting Tracey Collins, who was a senior official on the metropolis Division of Schooling till she resigned late final 12 months after coming below inside investigation. .Collins and Adams continued to be concerned and have owned a house collectively in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
The primary time she slept with Adams, Ray wrote, was in his Brooklyn Borough Corridor workplace after an occasion they attended collectively.
“He had made up his mind. He closed the distance like a man stepping into something he couldn’t walk back from,” Ray recounted.
“And then he said, ‘Fuck it.’”
The ebook cowl for “Political Humanity,” by Jasmine Ray.
She additionally recalled Adams would convey her to Woodland, a since-shuttered Brooklyn restaurant run by Robert and Zhan Petrosyants, twin brothers who’ve had run-ins with the regulation and the mayor counts as mates. She wrote she and Adams would go to Woodland “about three times a week,” at all times sitting on the identical desk in a balcony part.
The connection obtained so severe, Ray, 42, wrote, that the mayor advised her: “You’re going to be my wife.”
Adams, 65, stays single.
Based on Ray’s ebook, Adams summoned her to his workplace in 2016 and advised her they needed to break up.
Whereas she mentioned she was heartbroken by the break up, Ray wrote she remained mates with Adams and supported him as a politician. She describes him as a caring and compassionate man who has gotten an unfair shake in media protection of his administration.
Years after they broke issues off, Ray wrote that Adams reconnected along with her simply earlier than he turned mayor in January 2022.
He advised Ray he wished her to affix him at Metropolis Corridor, she wrote, leading to her appointment to be the director of the mayor’s workplace of sports activities, wellness and recreation. She was the primary particular person to ever serve in that place and pulled an almost $170,000 metropolis authorities wage whereas additionally working as a guide for a non-public daycare in Brooklyn, a moonlighting gig the mayor granted her a waiver to have the ability to do.
She wrote they weren’t romantically concerned whereas at Metropolis Corridor.
For the reason that launch of Ray’s ebook, Adams has barely appeared in public.
On Monday, Adams, who has but to reveal his subsequent profession transfer, traveled to Albania to fulfill with that nation’s prime minister and different native authorities officers. Adams, whose journey largely obtained comped by Albania’s authorities, was anticipated to return to New York late Thursday.
