This Staten Island woman dated Mayor Adams before landing a $161,400 NYC job – now she’s telling all
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island woman who dated Mayor Eric Adams more than a decade ago and was later appointed to a City Hall position earning more than $160,000 a year plans to release a tell-all book later this week, according to the New York Daily News.
Jasmine Ray, a Stapleton resident who has previously written in to the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com, will soon release “Political Humanity,” a self-published book detailing her alleged “hidden relationship” with Adams.
“From the shadows of City Hall to the silence of closed-door meetings, Jasmine Ray reveals her untold role in the life of New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams,” according to Ray’s website. “Their hidden relationship—marked by intimacy, sacrifice, and betrayal—mirrors the larger struggles of politics itself: the tension between personal humanity and public expectation.”
The mayor’s office confirmed Tuesday that Adams had dated Ray about a decade ago, but hadn’t had any romantic engagements since Ray was appointed to the administration three years ago, according to the Daily News report.
Ray, founder of the Staten Island-based Wallball World LLC and The United States Wallball Association Inc., was appointed as the city’s director of sports, wellness and recreation in late 2022 with a base salary of $161,400, according to the Daily News.
John Kaehny, a government watchdog who runs the Reinvent Albany group, called the hiring of Ray “nepotistic” and said Adams should have consulted with New York City’s Conflict of Interest Board before making the appointment.
“Elected officials are supposed to disclose familial relationships and relationships that create a potential conflict of interest so that the Conflict of Interest Board can offer advice,” Kaehny told the Daily News.
Kayla Mamelak, a spokesperson for Mayor Adams, told the Daily News that the mayor did not need to consult the Conflict of Interest Board due to the fact that Ray was a former girlfriend, not current one.
The Conflict of Interest Board declined to provide a comment to the Daily News.
