later found to have had a second family in secret in Los Angeles with a mistress and three daughters. Leveraging his Getty
credentials, Bill Newsom worked for Getty Oil’s Ital- ian operations. This Eu- ropean connection intro- duced Gavin at a young age to travel on the continent as an “adopted” son of the Getty clan. In 1973, John Paul Getty
III, J. Paul Getty’s grand- son, was kidnapped by the ’Ndrangheta, an Italian criminal organization based in Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot, and held for a $17 mil- lion ransom. The elder Getty balked
at paying the ransom but soon relented when the heir’s ear was sent to a newspaper. The Gettys sent Bill Newsom, by then a trusted insider, to deliver the ransom payment. After this harrowing ex-
perience, Bill Newsom be- came the Getty’s personal tax attorney. In 1975, Gov. Jerry
Brown appointed Bill New- som a state judge and later to the California Court of
Only two years after graduating from college with a degree in political science, Newsom created a shell company, PlumpJack Associates LP, at 23.
Appeal in San Francisco, a post he held until his re- tirement in 1995. One of his rulings shaped California’s trust law to Gordon Getty’s advantage. Even after serving in the
state judiciary, Bill Newsom continued his close asso- ciation with the Getty fam- ily, serving as a financial adviser and managing the multibillion-dollar Gordon P. Getty Family Trust. Gavin Newsom’s early
education included kinder- garten and first grade at the École Notre Dame des Vic- toires, a French American bilingual Catholic school (today’s tuition: $14,775), and then the Notre Dame des Victoires through fifth grade (tuition: $14,030). Newsom’s dyslexia forced
him to rely on audiobooks. He also developed a skill for
memorizing data — some- thing he uses to frequently spellbind his interlocutors. Newsom attended Red-
wood High School in Lark- spur. While a public high school, the median family income of the families with children who attend the school is $246,790 — the top 7% of income in the U.S. After graduating high
school, Newsom attended Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit university. In his junior year, he studied abroad in Rome. Only two years after
graduating from college with a degree in political science, Newsom created a shell company, PlumpJack Associates LP, at 23. Gordon Getty, his fa-
ther’s old prep school room- mate, was one of a dozen seed investors.
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