{"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":"<p>In his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, which is out this week, California governor <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2025-11-8\/15-reasons-gavin-newsom-should-be-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2025-11-8\/ay-caramba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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&hellip;\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":{"0":"post-198221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-barbara-newsom","9":"tag-benjamin-swig","10":"tag-calabrian-mafia","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-chronicle-books","13":"tag-daniel-lurie","14":"tag-danielle-steele","15":"tag-de-young-museum","16":"tag-dede-wilsey","17":"tag-don-and-doris-fisher","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-dow-chemical","20":"tag-fairmont-hotel","21":"tag-gavin-newsom","22":"tag-gettys","23":"tag-hearst","24":"tag-hyatt-hotel","25":"tag-illinois","26":"tag-j-paul-getty","27":"tag-j-b-pritzker","28":"tag-jay-pritzker","29":"tag-jerry-brown","30":"tag-john-paul-getty-iii","31":"tag-john-pritzker","32":"tag-john-traina","33":"tag-king-juan-carlos-i","34":"tag-lake-tahoe","35":"tag-levi-strauss","36":"tag-michael-h-de-young","37":"tag-nancy-pelosi","38":"tag-nicholas-j-pritzker","39":"tag-nion-mcevoy","40":"tag-oakland-as","41":"tag-palisades","42":"tag-palo-alto","43":"tag-pat-brown","44":"tag-paul-pelosi","45":"tag-plumpjack","46":"tag-pritzkers","47":"tag-rothys","48":"tag-san-francisco","49":"tag-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors","50":"tag-san-francisco-chronicle","51":"tag-san-francisco-examiner","52":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","53":"tag-san-francisco-news","54":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","55":"tag-santa-clara-university","56":"tag-sarah-swig","57":"tag-sf","58":"tag-sf-headlines","59":"tag-sf-news","60":"tag-squaw-valley","61":"tag-the-gap","62":"tag-tipping-point-community","63":"tag-trevor-traina","64":"tag-william-newsom-sr","65":"tag-william-randolph-hearst","66":"tag-william-roth-martin","67":"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}]}}