ATTENTION GRABBER Ramon Vaca, left, and Paul Stewart, both from Los Angeles, were among the first to get married in 2004 after Newsom ordered the San Francisco city-county clerk to issue licenses to same-sex couples. The California Supreme Court annulled the unions, but the move propelled the then-mayor into the national spotlight.
Newsom first displayed his penchant for grabbing national headlines when, in 2004, he ordered the San Francisco city- county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in violation of state law.
plum positions, the Cali- fornia Unemployment In- surance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission. Harris was working as
a prosecutor in Alameda County at the time. More importantly, Harris, then 29, was dating the married — but estranged — Brown, 60. Gavin Newsom didn’t
sit still. He won a full term to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1999 and was unchallenged for re- election in 2002. Just a year later, he ran
for mayor with support from an array of political power- houses: Brown, former Pres- ident Bill Clinton, and for- mer Vice President Al Gore. Newsom first displayed
his penchant for grabbing national headlines when, in 2004, he ordered the San Francisco city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to
same-sex couples in viola- tion of state law. The California Supreme
Court annulled the unions soon after, but Newsom was now a national commodity. Newsom’s personal life
mirrored the chaos and the privileged dissipation he saw around him growing up. In 2001, he married law-
SHORT TERM Gavin Newsom wed lawyer Kimberly Guilfoyle in 2001, but the marriage only lasted until 2005. A year later, he was dating a 19-year-old restaurant hostess and model.
yer Kimberly Guilfoyle, who went on to become a Fox News personality, an adviser to Donald Trump, and is now awaiting confir- mation as U.S. ambassador to Greece. But in 2005, two years
into his first term as may- or, Newsom cheated on Guilfoyle with his appoint- ments secretary, who hap- pened to be the wife of his best friend and mayoral campaign manager. Newsom and Guilfoyle
soon divorced. By the next year, New-
som, now 38, dated a 19-year-old restaurant host- ess and model. Newsom then met actor
and film director Jennifer Siebel in 2006. Siebel, a graduate of Stanford Uni- versity, is, like Newsom, a product of San Francisco private schools. In early 2007, Newsom said he would seek treatment for alcoholism. By July 2008, Newsom
and Siebel married. They have four children. Newsom geared up for
the 2010 gubernatorial elec- tion in 2009. But despite netting Bill Clinton’s en- dorsement, then-California Attorney General Jerry Brown got into the race. Brown had run for presi-
dent in 1976, 1980, and 1992 — the last time, Brown came in second to Clinton in the battle for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
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