The night Kamala Harris met Sharon Stone's ex husband Phil Bronstein in a back-room San Francisco bar - and what happened after that

Is Sharon Stone’s ex-husband 1 of Kamala Harris’s erstwhile flames? That mobility is abruptly consuming governmental circles arsenic nan vice president looks progressively apt to beryllium nan adjacent Commander-in-Chief.

The rumors person been astir for years but, dissimilar her flings pinch Willie Brown and Montel Williams, they person ne'er been proven 1 measurement aliases nan other.

And Phil Bronstein, nan 1 man who should beryllium capable to authorities definitively 1 measurement aliases nan other, is conscionable adding substance to nan flames.

‘I understand you’re only doing your job,’ Bronstein, 79, told a DailyMail.com reporter. ‘But I’m not going to remark astatine all.'

Then he added: ‘That’s not to beryllium misconstrued arsenic thing different than I’m conscionable not going to comment. I will not comment.’ 

Others are not truthful evasive. One erstwhile San Francisco official, who served erstwhile Harris was District Attorney, told DailyMail.com: ‘They were seen retired together connected galore occasions.

‘I cognize for a truth they were dating.’

Certainly Bronstein, who was executive editor of nan San Francisco Chronicle astatine nan clip Harris was DA, person agelong been close.

He has said he has known her since 2003 – nan twelvemonth he and Stone divided aft 5 years, one adopted son and a terrifying wound from a Komodo dragon.

He recovered himself successful nan early vice president’s beingness successful nan backroom of nan San Francisco bohemian barroom Tosca Café successful 2004, he wrote successful an article successful Alta Magazine.

Bruce Springsteen and Sean Penn were playing a manly crippled of excavation arsenic Metallica’s Lars Ulrich slouched in, grieving a crumbling marriage.

‘Practically hidden successful nan choking pall of baccy and celebrity, a young female was perched connected a barroom stool watching nan game, waiting, calculating,’ Bronstein recalled, breathlessly.

‘She was almost sedated, nursing a solid of vino and smoking cigarettes.

‘The quiet perceiver was Kamala Harris, nan female whom galore now deliberation is an odds-on favourite to beryllium President of nan United States,’ he gushed successful nan 2018 article – a clip erstwhile she was concisely starring successful nan polls for nan Democrat nomination.

‘But connected this night, she was a governmental rookie, hardly a twelvemonth into her first word arsenic San Francisco territory attorney: focused, reserved, undistracted, emotions successful check. And mysterious.’

‘As nan crippled went on, I watched Kamala softly watching and analyzing, trying to determine if she wanted to situation nan winner.

‘Finally, I imagine, she made her decision. Not nan correct time, not nan correct players. She near nan room.’

Bronstein’s melodramatic depiction near retired 1 cardinal item – conscionable why he, 1 of nan astir powerful figures successful nan City by nan Bay was truthful keenly studying nan charismatic alternatively than mixing it pinch Penn aliases Springsteen.

Those who knew Bronstein opportunity that, earlier and aft his matrimony to Stone, he fancied himself arsenic a ladies’ man.

‘Phil was azygous for a bully portion of his clip here, and he liked to get around,’ 1 insider who worked for Bronstein told DailyMail.com. ‘He had a estimation arsenic a horndog and was linked to tons of women.’

One staffer who worked pinch Harris successful nan DA’s agency told DailyMail.com that he’d heard nan rumor astir her making love Bronstein, but said she ne'er said astir it herself.

‘We talked astir her making love and stuff, and we’ve had conversations astir who she’s dating,’ nan root said. ‘And she ne'er mentioned him.

‘I’ve heard it, but I don’t know,’ nan root added. ‘I wouldn’t beryllium surprised. She could person had 1 aliases 2 dates pinch him.

‘But I americium affirmative it wasn’t a superior narration and that they weren’t making love for immoderate play of time.’

And Amelia Ashley-Ward, a adjacent friend and protagonist of Harris since 2002, raised doubts astir nan Bronstein rumor.

‘I don’t cognize thing astir immoderate narration she had pinch Phil Bronstein, and I talk to her frequently,’ Ashley-Ward, patient of Sun-Reporter, San Francisco’s oldest achromatic newspaper, told DailyMail.com.

‘We’ve been successful nan ‘Ooh girl, fto maine show you’ mode for years. That ne'er entered nan realm, and I deliberation she would person told me.’

A seasoned journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist who had besides been a warfare correspondent, Bronstein was acold from a emblematic news executive.

He joined Stone, past 1 of nan hottest actresses successful Hollywood acknowledgment to her flashing segment successful Basic Instinct, successful 1998.

‘I saw them successful action, showing up astatine events and stuff,’ nan newspaper root told DailyMail.com.

‘It was clear early connected that it was a difficult marriage. She could beryllium demanding of him and his time, and it sewage to beryllium beautiful stressful and contentious.’

It was done Stone that he met a Komodo dragon – a 300lb. 10-ft agelong carnivorous peep connected a backstage travel of nan Los Angeles Zoo. Keepers told him to region his achromatic shoes and socks arsenic nan near-sighted dragon mightiness correction them for its fare of achromatic rats.

But nan monster spot anyway, severing respective tendons successful his ft and leaving him successful fearfulness of his life arsenic galore victims of nan monster dice hours aliases days aft an attack, laid debased by its infected saliva.

Harris, now 59, had her own ill-fated romance pinch different California powerfulness agent erstwhile she was an upstart adjunct territory lawyer successful Oakland successful nan mid-1990s: Willie Brown, 90, nan erstwhile speaker of nan California State Assembly and San Francisco mayor.

Their romance was nary secret. Nor was nan truth Brown helped champion her early emergence successful politics, appointing her to 2 authorities commissions while prompting media scrutiny of their narration and nan effect connected her career.

Frustrated by nan chatter, Harris would later picture Brown arsenic an ‘albatross astir my neck.’

Her making love life again deed nan spotlight successful 2001, erstwhile she went retired pinch erstwhile talk show big Montel Williams, now 68.

Any narration pinch Bronstein was surely kept good retired of nan property moreover though they were seen together astatine various events complete nan years, including successful 2008 erstwhile Bronstein interviewed Harris connected shape for nan yearly meal of Project Avary, a nonprofit that assists children of incarcerated parents.

Bronstein went connected to wed Christine Borders – of nan bookstore family. They now unrecorded successful Hawaii and person 2 children.

Harris met her early hubby intermezo lawyer Doug Emhoff connected a unsighted day successful 2013, tying nan knot nan pursuing year. He has been successful nan news complete nan play aft DailyMail.com exclusively reported his first matrimony ended aft he sewage his daughter's nanny pregnant.

Harris and Bronstein kept successful interaction moreover aft he near nan Chronicle successful 2021, which benefitted some erstwhile then-Senator Harris declared her first statesmanlike bid.

‘While a root successful her agency says she has not been doing galore journalistic interviews – contempt requests ranging from Vanity Fair to The View – she agreed to 2 30-minute telephone interviews pinch maine for this communicative because she knows maine and knows she tin usage this mag to speak to California,’ Bronstein wrote successful nan mag article.

His flattering floor plan continued.

‘According to nan British betting tract Betfair, Harris leads each her imaginable rivals for nan 2020 Democratic information for president. At 5-to-1 odds, she leaves successful her particulate Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Joe Biden and The Rock.

‘And past location are her caller speeches. My, ohio my,’ he gasped.

‘As personification who’s known her for 15 years, I deliberation things beyond simply maturity and acquisition person stirred successful her,’ he continued.

Long aft Harris dropped retired earlier nan first primary, nan mag did a Q&A pinch Bronstein successful August 2020 advocating for her to beryllium selected VP.

‘I would prime her if I were Joe Biden, because she’s sewage nan powerfulness and nan spot and nan condemnation that I deliberation a batch of group consciousness he doesn’t have,’ he gushed.

‘She’s built up this persona of personification who has integrity and believes successful societal justice, and she’s a Black, Asian, Indian woman, which I think, successful this time and age, is simply a awesome point to person connected nan ticket.’

But he besides alluded to Harris’s ruthlessness. ‘I besides deliberation that, if I were Biden, I’d astir apt get a nutrient tester,’ he said.