Ann Getty, whose son Billy had dated the former Victoria’s Secret model Kimberly Guilfoyle, was (according to Guilfoyle) “like a mother” to her, so perhaps it was no surprise that her (Ann’s) diamond tiara sat atop her (Kimberly’s) head on the day in 2001 when she married not Billy Getty but Gavin Newsom (whose father, Bill Newsom III, had helped deliver the ransom money—small world!—when Billy’s relation John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in 1973), and although Guilfoyle and Newsom divorced after five years, she had by then joined the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, working with Kamala Harris, whom she accused of trying to block her hiring, but in 2006, Guilfoyle, just before marrying the interior-design-company C.E.O. Eric Villency (divorced, 2009), joined Fox News, where she supported Roger Ailes against Gretchen Carlson’s claims of persistent sexual harassment, leaving Fox herself in 2018 amid charges of, well, persistent sexual harassment (denied, settled out of court) that reportedly included the displaying of lewd pictures of male genitalia to her assistant, to whom she allegedly offered hush money—an echo (or foreshadowing) of the actions (denied, settled in court) of the father of her future fiancé, Donald Trump Jr., whom she met after allegedly dating the comically short-lived Trump White House communications director turned Never Trumper Anthony Scaramucci—but, look, that’s all water over the dam, and she’s now a stridently, happily overwrought speaker and adviser for Donald senior’s third presidential campaign, this one against her old nemesis Kamala Harris (whom she declared a “D.E.I. person”), someone, incidentally, she did not run into at the 2021 wedding of Ann Getty’s granddaughter, Ivy (who wore Ann’s diamond-and-sapphire earrings and filed for divorce this year), Guilfoyle not having been invited (although Gavin Newsom was).
George Kalogerakis, a Writer at Large at AIR MAIL, worked at Spy, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times, where he was deputy op-ed editor. He is a co-author of Spy: The Funny Years and a co-editor of Disunion: A History of the Civil War
