{"id":198221,"date":"2026-02-28T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198221\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:06:26","slug":"gavin-newsom-and-the-secretive-world-of-san-franciscos-old-money-aristocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198221\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom and the Secretive World of San Francisco\u2019s Old-Money Aristocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, which is out this week, California governor Gavin Newsom<\/a> paints a picture of an adversity-plagued childhood in San Francisco. His father left the family when Newsom was a toddler, moving to Lake Tahoe and leaving his mother to work three jobs to make ends meet. He recounts being tormented by the neighborhood kids and his ongoing struggles with dyslexia.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Newsom cannot avoid his family\u2019s multi-generational ties with one of San Francisco\u2019s wealthiest families: the Gettys. Newsom\u2019s father was a close friend of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty\u2019s sons Gordon and John Paul from their high-school days, and Newsom grew up alongside Gordon\u2019s four sons, going with them on family vacations that included rides in hot-air balloons over the Serengeti and parties hosted by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.<\/a> Later, when Newsom launched his hospitality business, PlumpJack, it was Gordon who provided the seed money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, which is out this week, California governor Gavin Newsom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[92199,92200,92201,7,92202,636,92203,71899,92204,92205,536,92206,62552,457,84953,3051,92207,9105,92212,9107,92208,13934,92209,92210,92211,92213,871,22189,92214,8669,92215,92216,22533,8320,195,13933,92217,92218,92219,92220,101,34860,8209,74886,103,102,1084,27715,92221,104,106,105,92222,22755,21358,92223,92224,10595,92225,92226],"class_list":["post-198221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-barbara-newsom","tag-benjamin-swig","tag-calabrian-mafia","tag-california","tag-chronicle-books","tag-daniel-lurie","tag-danielle-steele","tag-de-young-museum","tag-dede-wilsey","tag-don-and-doris-fisher","tag-donald-trump","tag-dow-chemical","tag-fairmont-hotel","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-gettys","tag-hearst","tag-hyatt-hotel","tag-illinois","tag-j-paul-getty","tag-j-b-pritzker","tag-jay-pritzker","tag-jerry-brown","tag-john-paul-getty-iii","tag-john-pritzker","tag-john-traina","tag-king-juan-carlos-i","tag-lake-tahoe","tag-levi-strauss","tag-michael-h-de-young","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-nicholas-j-pritzker","tag-nion-mcevoy","tag-oakland-as","tag-palisades","tag-palo-alto","tag-pat-brown","tag-paul-pelosi","tag-plumpjack","tag-pritzkers","tag-rothys","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors","tag-san-francisco-chronicle","tag-san-francisco-examiner","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-santa-clara-university","tag-sarah-swig","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-squaw-valley","tag-the-gap","tag-tipping-point-community","tag-trevor-traina","tag-william-newsom-sr","tag-william-randolph-hearst","tag-william-roth-martin","tag-young-man-in-a-hurry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}