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Gavin Newsom’s family connection to the Gettys is longstanding and personal: his father, William “Bill” Newsom III, was a close friend, legal adviser and trustee for the Getty family and even delivere...
Just Stop Oil is not shown in available reporting to be funded by oil companies; multiple mainstream sources state its primary backers are the US-based Climate Emergency Fund and public donations, wit...
Gavin Newsom’s family includes a mother, Tessa Thomas (née Menzies), described in profiles as having worked multiple jobs and shaped his early life, and a father, William A. Newsom III, who served as ...
William A. Newsom (William Alfred Newsom III) is a member of a multigenerational California family with sustained ties to politics, law, and wealthy private interests; he is best known publicly as the...
Aileen Getty, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, co-founded and is a major donor to the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), which has granted millions to groups including Just Stop Oil and related networks (...
William A. Newsom III worked as a lawyer, judge, and trusted adviser to the Getty family and had business ties to at least one firm, Trans‑International Computer Investment Corporation (TCI), and to w...
’s income in the 1970s and 1980s came from three overlapping streams: paid legal work and private advisory roles (notably for and ), remuneration and possible fees from business ventures and trust-man...
Patricia (Tessa) and William Newsom shaped Gavin Newsom through a combination of , producing a blend of entrepreneurial ambition and political orientation. Sources disagree on emphasis: some portray a...
are long-running and involve both social friendship and business support, centered most prominently on and his father’s generation (the line), with acting as the principal connector and later as a Get...