The rise and fall of SF's 21st century power couple: Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle – SFGATE

The rise and fall of SF’s 21st century power couple: Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle  SFGATE

More than two decades ago in 2004, then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife Kimberly Guilfoyle were given the label “the New Kennedys” in an infamous Harper’s Bazaar profile for which they posed lying seductively on a maroon and gold rug. It may have sounded like hyperbole, but it was clear even then that the two could take their San Francisco roots to greater heights. Gordon Getty, the prominent American philanthropist and oil heir, also a longtime family friend of Newsom, had told W magazine the year before that the couple was “destined for greatness,” in both SF and D.C. Just apparently not together. By 2006, SF’s “Camelot couple” had unceremoniously divorced and begun to their ascent to new heights, albeit ones that were in political opposition.

Guilfoyle became a MAGA superstar who was engaged to Donald Trump Jr. for three years and served as ambassador to Greece until she resigned this week after accusations of misconduct, which she denies. Newsom became California’s lieutenant governor in 2011, was elected governor in 2019, and has a much-speculated-about 2028 presidential bid on the horizon. But before their comparison to America’s iconic first couple, Jackie and Jack, they were just Kimberly and Gavin, a model turned attorney and a wine entrepreneur turned county supervisor who were falling in love. In his memoir,