Eric Adams isn't the first mayor to have a complicated love life

"Jasmine Ray, the former director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Sports, Wellness and Recreation, posted on Instagram last week that she had had a "hidden relationship" with Mayor Eric Adams, which a City Hall spokesperson confirmed occurred about a decade ago, according to the Daily News. She also announced the release of her self-published memoir, a tell-all book about her relationship with the mayor, which came out Sunday."

"Wouter van Twiller: Twiller was the director of New Amsterdam (the precursor to New York City) in the 1630s, who had an affair with Griet Reyniers, a well-known prostitute and ancestor of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Twiller liked her so much he made her his mistress. Their affair ended badly, inspiring her famous quote: "I have long been the whore of the nobility. From now on I shall be the whore of the rabble.""

"Fernando Wood: Wood, who had two nonconsecutive terms as mayor from 1855-1857 and then again from 1860-1862, had a tumultuous love life, marrying three times. His first marriage to Anna W. Taylor began in 1831 and ended in divorce in 1839, due to her adultery. His second marriage to Ann Dole Richardson in 1841, with whom he had seven children, ended with her death in 1859. Finally his third marriage to 16-year-old Alice Fenner Mills, while he was 48, resulted in nine children."

Jasmine Ray, former director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Sports, Wellness and Recreation, posted that she had a "hidden relationship" with Mayor Eric Adams, which City Hall confirmed occurred about a decade ago. She released a self-published tell-all memoir about the relationship. Historical examples include Wouter van Twiller's 1630s affair with Griet Reyniers, which ended badly and produced Reyniers' famous line about being the "whore of the nobility" and then "of the rabble." David Mathews was labeled "profligate, abandoned, and dissipated" with unnamed alleged mistresses. Fernando Wood married three times with large age differences and many children. William J. Gaynor experienced two tempestuous marriages, including a divorce and a reportedly volatile later marriage.

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