Vanessa Getty | |
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Born | Vanessa Jarman 1972 (age 51–52) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Years active | 1999–present |
Spouse | Billy Getty |
Vanessa Getty (born 1972) is an American socialite and philanthropist. [1] [2] [3]
Getty was born in San Francisco to Claude Jarman Jr., an actor, and Maryann Opperman, a ballerina. [4] [5] She is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles. [6]
In 1999, she married Billy Getty, a son of Gordon Getty and Ann Getty, in the Napa Valley. [7] [8] [9] The couple have three children and are based in San Francisco. [6] [10]
In 2015, she was named as an honorary co-chair of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. [11] [12] [13]
As a philanthropist, she has contributed in development of the Peninsula Humane Society. Getty is also the founder of San Francisco Bay Humane Friends. [6] [14]
She supported and donated to the campaign of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who is also the godmother to her children. [15] [16]
Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Gordon Peter Getty is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$ 2 billion trust. His net worth was $2.1 billion in September 2020, making him number 391 on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans.
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Barry Allen Munitz has been a senior administrator at the University of Illinois and the University of Houston, a business executive at Maxxam, Inc., chancellor of the California State University system, and chief executive officer of the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Trust. He is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.
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The 2016 United States Senate election in California was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of California, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
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