

Later that day, they spoke with Kremen on the phone to see if he had uploaded the photos by accident. The staffer said they became upset and vomited after seeing the photos. Kremen has denied any wrongdoing, and said the images were part of a large photo dump the staffer was supposed to comb through for campaign purposes. Only the staffer and Kremen had access to the Dropbox, the staffer said. Stone’s left breast is exposed in four photos. Kremen and Stone are in bed, nude from the chest up. San José Spotlight reviewed screenshots of the explicit images from the Dropbox account. The staffer on May 11 opened a Dropbox used by Kremen to store campaign-related photos and noticed Kremen had added several partially nude photos of himself and his longtime partner, Essy Stone. The race has gotten ugly, and Kremen has repeatedly criticized incumbent Assessor Larry Stone’s management of the office and said he put employees’ lives at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. The former staffer, who spoke with San José Spotlight on condition of anonymity, worked on Kremen’s campaign for Santa Clara County assessor for several months last year. The staffer said the images coupled with other questionable behavior from Kremen caused emotional and mental anguish, eventually forcing them to quit working for him. Tech entrepreneur and politician Gary Kremen is being accused by a former campaign staffer of sharing unsolicited nude photos with them.
