Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Gavin NewsomThe family bought the Kentfield Mansion in Marin County, 20 miles north of San Francisco, which he purchased for $9.1 million, with a mortgage of $6.5 million, at the end of 2024. The Newsoms moved back so their four children could attend local private schools.
Inside Gavin Newsom and wife’s $30M fortune: Homes, wineries, a gazillionaire patriarch – and the nonprofits under the microscope
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bombshell revelation that the Department of Justice is investigating him and his wife has reignited questions about the California governor’s wealth.
The answer: an estimated $30 million fortune, making his $245,929 annual salary little more than pocket change.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California is probing allegations brought forward by California whistleblowers regarding Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s taxes, former Newsom chief of staff Dana Williamson, and potentially some statehouse staff, the sources said.
The investigation first came to light when Newsom released a pre-recorded social media clip Monday accusing President Trump of directing the FBI and the Department of Justice to pursue the case against him because he was considering a run for president in 2028.
Newsom was a wealthy man by the time he made his first major foray into politics as mayor of San Francisco in 2004.
Newsom was worth about $6.9 million, largely from his stake in a lucrative wine and hospitality business he founded off the back of his connections to California’s wealthiest family, the Gettys.
Newsom’s father, attorney and appeals court judge William Newsom, was so trusted by Gordon Getty that he delivered the $2.2 million ransom to secure the release of his nephew, John Paul Getty III, who had been kidnapped by the Italian Mafia on July 10, 1973.
Getty’s son, Billy, partnered with his then-friend Gavin Newsom to launch the upscale Balboa Cafe and Plumpjack.
The two later had a falling out after Newsom’s ties to the elder Getty caused “resentment,” the governor has previously suggested.
Plumpjack has gone on to expand into wineries, restaurants and hotels.
The governor’s political position has benefited Plumpjack, with The Post previously reporting that $50,000 in donor money has been spent at the company’s businesses.
The governor also owns two lavish homes in California.
Newsom and his wife bought a 12,600-square-foot home in Fair Oaks for $3.7 million, borrowing $2.7 million of it, according to state records, in 2018, just before he became governor.
He chose to stay there rather than the governor’s mansion.
The family bought the Kentfield Mansion in Marin County, 20 miles north of San Francisco, which he purchased for $9.1 million, with a mortgage of $6.5 million, at the end of 2024.
The Newsoms moved back so their four children could attend local private schools.
Newsom has also written multiple books, the most recent his self-titled memoir “Young Man in a Hurry,” which is believed to be a precursor to a potential 2028 presidential run.
Newsom even used his political action committee to spend $1.6 million to bulk-purchase his own book.
Forms showed he made over $100,000 from publication payment and royalties.
His podcasts, also seen as a sign of a potential presidential bid, have not generated any income for the governor, as he cannot accrue income from them while in office, according to the disclosures.
Much of the intrigue from the DOJ probe seems to be centered on his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who also blasted the investigation as un-presidential-like behavior. She has her own blind trust with at least $1 million in holdings.
Siebel Newsom is involved with the feminist nonprofit Representation Project, where she earns a salary of more than $150,000 as a founder. That nonprofit also gave around $150,000 annually to Siebel Newsom’s media production company, Girls Club Entertainment, which she has used to create documentaries.
The Post previously reported that the governor helped funnel more than $4.4 million in donations from organizations and powerful figures to another Siebel-founded nonprofit, the California Partners Project, which has coordinated on projects that overlap with the Representation Project.
Those requested donations are legal but have raised conflict-of-interest concerns given those same entities have business before the state government.
“They are not breaking any laws,” said Dan Schnur, a teacher of political communications at USC and UC Berkeley, “but [Newsom] is following this law more aggressively than any other politician in modern memory.”
Newsom previously owned stock before his time as governor, in companies like tech giant Intel and drug manufacturer Merck & Co., according to state forms. Newsom has held a blind trust worth more than $1 million in mutual funds, according to Gazette Direct.
This explains a lot:Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown
Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown
The Ivy League is having a mental health crisis.
"Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard, and 13 percent said they were unsure," according to a survey of the Class of 2026 conducted by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. That’s more than double the rate of the general adult U.S. population, which the federal government’s National Institute of Mental Health estimates at 23.1 percent, noting that "Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."
Young and left-wing are part of 'emerging mental health political identity'
At Princeton, a senior survey conducted by the Princetonian student newspaper found 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college, with 36.3 percent getting help from the university’s counseling and psychological services and 23.8 percent finding outside assistance. That’s also much higher than the overall population; NPR reported last year on a study that found "the number of American adults getting outpatient talk therapy grew from 6.5% to 8.5%."
Yale faced a 2022 federal lawsuit for failing to accommodate "students with mental health disabilities." Students and alumni, organized in groups such as Mental Health Justice at Yale, the Yale Law School Mental Health Alliance, and Elis for Rachael, are still advocating; a recent Yale Daily News opinion piece, published under the headline "Yalies for mental health," laments the quality of the counseling services on offer at the university, arguing, "many students still wait unacceptably long to see a therapist. For instance, upon returning from summer vacation, students do not automatically continue seeing their therapist from the previous school year. Instead, they must undergo the placement process all over again, unnecessarily lengthening the time it takes to be matched with a therapist. Yale has not met student requests for a more diverse range of therapists. Yale still does not offer an affordable Preferred Provider Organization option for health insurance. And Yale did not agree to implement annual mental health first-aid training for students, faculty, staff and administrators."
Potential causes of the trends are multifarious. As with mild autism and learning disabilities of the sort that generate eligibility for untimed standardized tests, it’s unclear how much of the increase is in incidence and how much is in identification—that is, are today’s students really more depressed, anxious, or panicked than previous generations, or are they and the grownups around them simply more likely to diagnose and label their maladies as mental illness? It could be that both dynamics are operating.
Among the factors are federal legislation—the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 and the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008—that may have helped make students and parents more aware of eligibility for services. Technological advances have made talk therapy readily available on telehealth platforms, so, ironically, students can visit a mental-health provider online in search of a cure for what Anxious Generation author Jonathan Haidt calls an "epidemic of teen mental illness" created by the replacement of "play-based childhood" with "phone-based childhood." Popular culture is also a factor: Star performing artists such as Noah Kahan and Taylor Swift talk openly about their issues.
And it may just be that students on overwhelmingly politically liberal Ivy League campuses are more likely to identify as mentally ill than other Americans are. An assistant professor of political science at Utah State University, Lauren Van De Hey, wrote a paper, "Just a Little Melancholic, Maybe a Little Blue: Mental Health as an Emerging Political Identity," published in April 2026, describing what she called "an emerging mental health political identity that is most pronounced among younger (Gen Z) and more liberal Americans."
Van De Hey’s paper notes that "some research has found that liberals (Democrats) have worse reported mental health than conservatives (Republicans)." Her paper contains a chart that graphically displays the disparity.
"Those more likely to categorize as having a mental illness are more likely to have a college degree; be a Democrat, liberal, and White; and have slightly lower family income," Van De Hey writes.
The paper includes a discussion of the findings. "Are liberals (Democrats) and conservatives (Republicans) really that different when it comes to mental health prevalence and/or identification? Initial work … has confirmed a gap between the parties, but is this because Republicans (conservatives) do not consider anxiety and depression to be mental illnesses at the same rate as Democrats (liberals)? Is this because of a personal responsibility ethos or other shared Republican predispositions? If so, it could lead Republicans (conservatives) to seek treatment at a lower rate than Democrats (liberals) because Republicans (conservatives) will not seek treatment for something they do not consider a medical condition." She says more work is needed on the topic.
The fact that the student newspaper surveys are even asking questions about the issue is a sign of its salience. The Crimson senior survey also found, "Seniors reported continued support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement as Israel’s war in Gaza continues into its third year and after a sharp increase in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. More than 40 percent of respondents view the movement favorably, increasing 5 percentage points from last year’s graduating class." Israel reached a ceasefire in Gaza in October 2025, so the contention that "Israel’s war in Gaza continues into its third year" is itself a kind of delusion, and the support for BDS—a movement to wipe Israel off the map—from the seniors is evidence that Harvard is failing to educate the students. The survey found 65.6 percent of Harvard students identifying as either "progressive" or "very progressive."
One has to be careful in writing about this—the last thing I’d want to do would be to discourage any student who needs help from seeking or getting it. Mental illness is a real thing, and treatment can help, in some cases saving lives. Yet with that crucial caveat, it’s also hard to avoid wondering in some cases whether the politics are a consequence of the illness, or the illness is a consequence of the politics. I watched a lot of anti-Israel protests at Harvard, and even read some of the poetry and journal articles. Without singling out any individual participants or casting any stigma on people seeking or getting needed treatment, it’s hard to avoid noticing the strong likelihood of some overlap in the Venn diagram between the 47 percent who experienced mental illness and the 40 percent who view BDS favorably to the point of setting up tents in a Harvard Yard "encampment" or interrupting classes with megaphones or occupying buildings in protests. I’m not a forensic psychiatrist, but some people are just unmistakably crazy.
It’s not even limited to Israel or Gaza; it extends to the Trump administration. Even the most cheerful among us might get depressed listening to professors and even administrators drone on all day about how the president is destroying democracy. Students are one thing. A poll that would be really telling would be of the reported mental health of the faculty, deans, and administrators.
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Obama and the little people....
Obama fails to pay the help
The city should take a wrecking ball to that project which stiffs the little guy. But the Obama center knows that will never happen, so they do what they do, and too bad about the little guy.
After building an ugly, overprice, monstrosity marring the design of a famous Chicago park, anybody surprised to learn that the Obama Presidential Center has failed to pay the help?
Multiple little-guy contractors have told Fox News that they've been stiffed on the payments for their goods and services.
According to Fox News:
Concern is mounting that taxpayers could be left holding the bag if the Obama Presidential Center runs into financial trouble, as the foundation behind it has yet to establish a promised $470 million safety net to guard against a public bailout.The scrutiny comes as a Fox News Digital investigation found multiple contractors and subcontractors claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions on the project, with some alleging they remain locked in payment disputes and face financial ruin just days before the center's grand opening.Under its agreement with the city, the Obama Foundation pledged to create the fund, known as an endowment, as part of its 99-year deal to take control of the publicly owned 19.3-acre section of Jackson Park for a one-time payment of just $10.
So if they don't create the fund, the city should rightfully get the wrecking ball out and get rid of the ugly monolith, because it's nakedly violating its contract.
But that won't happen so long as the city is run by Democrats.
That's allowed the Obama team to conclude that there's nothing they can't get away with, including running out on their tab from contractors.
It has a million-dollar endowment on paper, and presumably still there if there's no funny bookkeeping.
It pays Valerie Jarrett a minimum $740,000 per year salary. Its other former Obama administration staffers clock in at $400,000 to $600,000-plus salaries. It's got money in the bank, plus big-dollar ticket fees for admission to the monolith.
Fox adds that there are a lot of them:
Salaries and benefits soared from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024, as staffing expanded to 337 employees and annual revenue reached nearly $210 million.
But the little guy who smooths the cement or does the gardening or catering or windows and floors gets nothing, and as the video report notes, some of these small businesses are going bankrupt for not getting paid.
And the Obama center says nothing, effectively rendering these black contractors' delivered work slavery, work for nothing. Work for 'the honor' of paying obeisance to The Won.
Something about that is just so ... Democrat. Democrats expect others to do things for them for free, and like doing it. They have a special contempt for the little guy; the guys Obama has oleaginously praised with his forked tongue, with 'work hard,' and all that.
Somehow, he can't be bothered to pay the help, unless a media spotlight is on them, and even then, not necessarily so. They just don't value the work these people have done, nor do they value the work America has done. They pay themselves first and let the rest of the contributors twist in the wind.
It's outrageous and this story ought to be better known.
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