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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...
Gordon Getty’s long-standing personal and financial relationship with Gavin Newsom helped seed Newsom’s early business ventures (notably PlumpJack) and created social and philanthropic ties that have ...
Gavin Newsom’s connections to the Getty family stretch decades — his father worked for and advised the Gettys, Gordon Getty invested in Newsom’s early businesses, and multiple Getty family members hav...
Gavin Newsom’s long personal and political ties to the Getty family — rooted in his father’s role as an adviser to the Gettys and in Newsom’s early business partnership with Gordon Getty (PlumpJack Wi...
Multiple media reports and biographies document longstanding, personal and financial ties between Governor Gavin Newsom (and his family) and the Getty oil dynasty: Newsom’s grandfather and father were...
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...
Gavin Newsom has been portrayed by multiple journalists and opponents as having , a portrayal grounded in verifiable details about his family connections and later personal wealth, while his office an...
Gavin Newsom has not been reported as personally subpoenaed in any federal financial investigation based on the supplied sources; coverage instead documents subpoenas to the State of California and in...
Gordon Getty and the Getty family provided repeated, documented financial backing that seeded and then became the dominant outside capital behind Gavin Newsom’s PlumpJack enterprises: an initial “mode...
There are longstanding personal, social and occasional business overlaps among San Francisco’s elite families — the Newsoms, Pelosis, Gettys and Browns — but the available reporting shows mostly famil...
Gavin Newsom and his immediate family have held multiple elected and appointed offices in California, including city, statewide and judicial roles tied to his father; the Getty clan, by contrast, appe...