Gavin Newsom takes an icy look at marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a new memo that he was going through the motions in his courtship with Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Newsom and Guilfoyle married in 2001 and divorced during his first term as mayor of San Francisco in 2006.
Presenting his union as a convenient platform for fighters, Newsom wrote in an excerpt provided by the New York Times in “Young Man in a Hurry”:
“I was going through all the motions until the motions took me right to the altar.”
“I had become quite skilled at repressing my feelings and Kimberly allowed me this emotional distance,” he wrote, adding that their divorce was “amicable.”
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As part of the couple dubbed “The New Kennedys,” Guilfoyle told the Washington Post in 2018 that she had always been a Republican but had kept it a secret.
He later worked for News (where Newsom theorized he “fell prey” to the culture) and let his MAGA flag fly. She served as an advisor to President Donald Trump and became engaged and separated from Donald Trump Jr. She is now ambassador to Greece.
Newsom married Jennifer Siebel in 2008 and is in talks to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2028.
In his single days as mayor, he wrote in the book that he did not behave “with discernment.”
He described his affair with his deputy chief of staff’s wife as “the worst betrayal of my life.” (He and Guilfoyle were in the midst of a divorce at the time, People reported.)
“I considered myself a single man who happened to be mayor,” Newsom wrote. “If I had my head straight, I would have seen it was the other way around.”
“Young Man in a Hurry” is out February 24.