Villaraigosa's affair with Telemundo KVEA-TV Channel 52 reporter and anchor Mirthala Salinas in 2007 also raised a conflict-of-interest question and created a firestorm of publicity that tainted his first term in office.
During his successful campaign for reelection this year, Villaraigosa continually apologized for the affair.
Salinas, who as a political reporter had covered such mayoral initiatives as his effort to gain control of the Los Angeles Unified School District, later quit after she was suspended for two months and reassigned by Telemundo to the station's Riverside bureau.
Sue Otto, who owns Chevalier's Books, told The Times that Villaraigosa and Parker were looking over books displayed outside the store before walking in together Sunday.
"He's been in before, but I didn't recognize her," Otto said.
When the pair walked in, authors Elizabeth Ford and Daniela Drake were signing copies of their new book, "Smart Girls Marry Money: How Women Have Been Duped Into the Romantic Dream -- and How They're Paying For It." The two authors invited the mayor and Parker over, Otto said.
"They gave her a copy," Otto said.
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