NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ ex who landed $160K City Hall gig is releasing tell-all book on secret romance

Eric Adams’ hands trembled as he beckoned his girlfriend Jasmine Ray into his Brooklyn Borough Hall office in early 2016 to give her fateful news.

The up-and-coming borough president – with whom Ray had shared a two-year relationship that had blossomed into deeper intimacy in that very office – said he needed space to pursue something greater.

“He was breaking up with me, and I felt my soul leave my body,” Ray recounted in a tell-all book set to come out Sunday, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

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Five years later, Adams reentered Ray’s life by text: “I just won the primary. I’m going to be Mayor of New York City, and I don’t want to do this without you.”

The whirlwind, previously secret romance that Ray – who later landed a $160,000 job in his administration – claims she had with Adams is the subject of her new, self-published memoir “Political Humanity.”

Ray, 42, not only details their decade-old relationship – which unfolded long before he became mayor and appointed her as the city’s first director of the Mayor’s Office of Sports, Wellness and Recreation – but also a slew of other revelations about Adams’ seldom-seen private life.

The book reveals:

• Adams and Ray shared a close friendship after meeting at a Brooklyn Nets game in 2014. She spilled that it became intimate a year later following an event in the Bronx, after which he took her to his office. “He closed the distance like a man stepping into something he couldn’t walk back from,” she wrote. “And then he said “F–k it.”
• The crystal-loving, meditation-happy Adams roped Ray into his woo-woo beliefs, including by giving her his password for Gaia, a spiritual streaming platform.
• The pol – who would later face an historic indictment over his shady ties to Turkey – shared a moment with Ray at a Brooklyn Turkish restaurant. “I remember one moment in particular at a Turkish restaurant in Sheepshead Bay,” she wrote, “when he told me I was listed as his emergency contact.”
• Adams, as the feds expanded their probe, had pulled Ray aside to give her a heads up that she was on their “radar”: “You’re on a short list of people that have frequent contact with me,” he said, according to the book.

Ray started teasing the forthcoming memoir on social media with a dramatic AI-generated video this week, after Adams’ announcement that he was dropping his long-shot independent re-election bid.

“He used one word. Resolve. That’s what he said. You know, he felt resolved,” she told The Post on Thursday about her talk with Adams after he suspended his campaign.

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She said she still talks to Adams every day. But while a production company has already reached out to her about a potential movie, she said, the mayor had mixed feelings about her memoir.

“It’s like up and down, like a roller coaster, you know what?” she said. “I think he likes the book, but he’s also like, you know, this is causing a lot of chaos. Like, ‘What the hell, Jas?’”

The tome alternates between intensely intimate accounts of Ray’s relationship with Adams and sometimes-biting commentary on the reception of New York City’s second black mayor.

Ray, whose great-grandfather, the Brooklyn Baptist pastor Dr. Sandy F. Ray, was a civil rights leader close to Martin Luther King Jr., contends Adams was “publicly flayed” for being unapologetically black.

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But she also described Adams, who saw many of his long-time allies facing criminal scrutiny during his tenure, as loyal to a fault.

“I felt like some people that were brought to City Hall should have probably stayed at Borough Hall, you know?” she said. “Everybody can rise to the occasion. And, in my opinion, most did. But some didn’t.”

The feds subpoenaed and questioned Ray amid their probe into Adams, an experience she cast as nerve-wracking. 

Ray resigned her position as sports czar last week, days before Adams revealed he was dropping out of the November mayoral race.

She believes Adams shouldn’t have given up his re-election bid.

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“I think he made a mistake by quitting,” she said. “I think the city made a mistake by turning their back on him.

“This situation is very frustrating and sad, but yeah, no, I just hope the city forgives him. I hope he forgives the city, you know, and then everybody just has a good life.”

Adams hasn’t publicly disclosed his prior romance with Ray.

He has been in a relationship with his long-term girlfriend, Tracey Collins, for years.

The Post reached out to Adams and City Hall but didn’t receive a response. 

– Additional reporting by Hannah Fierick and Emily Crane