Overview

• At a Times Square safety briefing Friday, Eric Adams angrily confronted a reporter and rejected the book’s account of a sexual encounter in Borough Hall before ending the exchange.
• He had posted Thursday praising Jasmine Ray’s self-published memoir, calling her a person of integrity and urging people to read Political Humanity.
• Ray previously served as the city’s first director of sports, wellness and recreation, a newly created role that paid roughly $160,000 to $170,000, and she resigned before the book’s release.
• In the memoir, Ray says she and Adams dated from 2014 to 2016 and writes that they were not romantically involved during her City Hall tenure.
• The developments come after Adams exited the mayoral race during fallout from his federal indictment and as he traveled to Albania on a visit reported to be largely funded by that government.