California Governor Gavin Newsom
(Picture: Getty Images)California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has been absent from the public eye for almost two weeks - appears to have been spotted at a billionaire wedding.
According to Vogue, the governor, who hasn’t conducted a public event since Oct 26 and cancelled a trip to Cop26, attended oil heiress Ivy Getty’s wedding in San Francisco over the weekend.
The masked governor appeared to be in the background of a photo of Gordon Getty kissing his granddaughter during the ceremony.
Ivy Getty is the great-granddaughter of oil magnate J. Paul Getty and the daughter of John Gilbert Getty.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was the wedding officiator, and Mayor London Breed was also said to be in attendance.
Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter
Once people on Twitter saw this, there was relief that the mystery surrounding his whereabouts appeared to have been solved - but some consternation about the venue in which he chose to resurface.
Well, it certainly looks like at least part of the mystery's been solved. @GavinNewsom set out to fight global warming by going to COP26, but ended up enjoying a luxurious weekend funded by Getty/Big Oil $$. https://t.co/Nr63wGGlVz
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) November 9, 2021
Am also just realizing the irony in Gavin Newsom attending the wedding of the great-granddaughter of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty about a week after cancelling his trip to the UN climate change conference…
— Emily Hoeven (@emily_hoeven) November 9, 2021
so in case anyone was wondering why Gavin Newsom wasn't at the climate summit, it's because it's because he was at this wedding of one of the Getty children, as covered by Vogue. https://t.co/noqrtfoWVa
— AntiDisplacementCoup (@AsterZephyrIsis) November 9, 2021
If all the rumors about Gavin Newsom vanishing from public life was an elaborate ploy to get me to look through EVERY SINGLE ONE of Ivy Getty's wedding photos I say well played Vogue
— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) November 9, 2021
I’m so sorry I can’t make the climate change summit and will instead be attending the wedding of the year where 90% of attendees fly in on private jets 🤣
— Mascar.Mad (@MasCar2919) November 9, 2021
Though the wedding does not completely give the reason why Newsom postponed his travel to the climate summit, he has close links to the Getty family. Newsom was anticipated to be in Scotland from November 1-3, as mentioned on his website, and potentially could have made it back in time for the weekend wedding.
According to SFGATE, Newsom’s staff informed the outlet on Monday that he spent all last week working out of the Capitol and intends to resume regular public engagements this week.
On Tuesday, he is slated to speak at the California Economic Summit in Monterey, which would mark his first public appearance since receiving his booster shot last month.
The event will be live-streamed and is sponsored by the nonprofit organisation California Forward. It’s unclear whether Newsom will take questions from the press.
Indy100 reached out to the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom for comment.
