California Gov.Gavin Newsom admits he was a cold, distant husband to first wife Kimberly Guilfoyle — writing in his forthcoming memoir that he was “just going through the motions.”
Newsom said he married Guilfoyle at a time when he became “skilled at repressing my feelings,” according to an excerpt of the memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” which drops Feb. 24.
“Kimberly allowed me this emotional distance,” the Democratic governor wrote in the memoir, according to the New York Times.
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Newsom said he married Guilfoyle at a time when he became “skilled at repressing my feelings.” San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThe pair, once considered “the New Kennedys,” were married in 2001 when Newsom was serving as the mayor of San Francisco.
But the courtship seemed more contractual than intimate.
Newsom described the moments leading up to “I do” as simply going “through all the motions until the motions led me right up to the altar,” the paper reported.
Guilfoyle, who went on to date Donald Trump Jr. and is now the US ambassador to Greece, filed for divorce from Newsom in 2005, citing the demands of their respective careers while living on opposite coasts.
Kimberly Guilfoyle in January 2026. Getty ImagesDownload The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters
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It was later revealed that as the couple was breaking up, Newsom had an affair with his then-deputy chief of staff’s wife, an instance of infidelity that he described in his book as “the worst betrayal of my life.”
Guilfoyle, who is now the US ambassador to Greece, filed for divorce from Newsom in 2005. Getty Images
It was later revealed that as the couple was breaking up, Newsom had an affair. WireImage“I thought of myself as a single guy who happened to be mayor,” Newsom wrote, according to the paper. “Had my head been on straight, I would have seen it was the other way around.”
Newsom, however, reportedly opted out of discussing some of his other love interests — including 19-year-old model and college lacrosse star Brittanie Mountz, whom he dated when he was 38 years old.
Newsom — a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 — dismissed that fling to the Times, claiming that the mismatched pair “only went on a few dates.”
He also said in the book that he broke up with “The Sopranos” and “CSI” actress Sofia Milos at the behest of oil magnate Gordon Getty, who told him she “wasn’t suited to him.”
