\u201cJas has always led with integrity. Writing this book wasn\u2019t easy, but she wanted people to understand the work, the mission, and the human side behind the headlines,\u201d the mayor, who\u2019s currently in Albania, wrote in a post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n \u201cI respect her for that and I enjoyed reading it. I hope all will read the book.\u201d<\/p>\n The mayor\u2019s endorsement of Ray\u2019s tell-all, \u201cPolitical Humanity,\u201d comes after he abandoned his bid for reelection last week<\/a> as he faced record low approval ratings amid continued fallout from his federal corruption indictment and surrounding controversies.<\/p>\n Ray, who served in the newly-created role of Adams\u2019 director of sports, wellness and recreation until she resigned before the release of her book this past weekend, wrote in the tell-all that she and the mayor dated between 2014 and 2016 after first meeting at a Brooklyn Nets game.<\/p>\n He was Brooklyn\u2019s borough president at the time and was at the time dating Tracey Collins, who used to be a senior official at the city Department of Education until she resigned late last year after coming under internal investigation<\/a>. Collins and Adams continue to be involved and have owned a home together in Fort Lee, New Jersey.<\/p>\n The first time she slept with Adams, Ray wrote, was in his Brooklyn Borough Hall office after an event they attended together.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had made up his mind. He closed the distance like a man stepping into something he couldn\u2019t walk back from,\u201d Ray recounted.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then he said, \u2018Fuck it.’\u201d<\/p>\n She also recalled Adams would bring her to Woodland, a since-shuttered Brooklyn restaurant run by Robert and Zhan Petrosyants<\/a>, twin brothers who\u2019ve had run-ins with the law and who the mayor counts as friends<\/a>. She wrote she and Adams would go to Woodland \u201cabout three times a week,\u201d always sitting at the same table in a balcony section.<\/p>\n The relationship got so serious, Ray, 42, wrote, that the mayor told her: \u201cYou\u2019re going to be my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n Adams, 65, remains unmarried.<\/p>\n According to Ray\u2019s book, Adams summoned her to his office in 2016 and told her they had to break up.<\/p>\n While she said she was heartbroken by the split, Ray wrote she remained friends 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 coverage of his administration.<\/p>\n Years after they broke things off, Ray wrote that Adams reconnected with her just before he became mayor in January 2022.<\/p>\n He told Ray he wanted her to join him at City Hall, she wrote, resulting in her appointment to be the director of the mayor\u2019s office of sports, wellness and recreation. She was the first person to ever serve in that position and pulled a nearly $170,000 city government salary while also working as a consultant for a private daycare in Brooklyn, a moonlighting gig the mayor granted her a waiver to be able to do.<\/p>\n She wrote they weren\u2019t romantically involved while at City Hall.<\/p>\n Since the release of Ray\u2019s book, Adams has barely appeared in public.<\/p>\n![\"Political](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760042546_569_Political-Humanity.jpg\")
The book cover for “Political Humanity,” by Jasmine Ray.<\/p>\n