Divorce papers accuse governor of affairs

? First lady Dawn Gibbons accuses Gov. Jim Gibbons in divorce papers of having extramarital affairs with a former Playboy magazine model and another woman to whom he sent hundreds of text messages last year.

The Republican governor has been untruthful about his “infidelity” with the two women, his estranged wife says in a divorce filing, which was unsealed Monday by a court order in Washoe County Family Court.

The governor has insisted both women were just friends. He filed for divorce last May, citing “incompatibility” with his wife. The couple had been married since 1986.

Dawn Gibbons identified one of the women in the documents as Kathy Karrasch, who over several weeks in 2007 received more than 860 text messages from the governor on his state cell phone.

The governor publicly apologized last year and reimbursed the state $130. He denied the messages were “love notes.”