He is Gavin Newsom, now the uber-progressive Governor of California and looking all the more likely to be the man who may yet run against Trump in this year's presidential election.
At a youthful 56, Newsom has risen smoothly up the ranks to the top of California politics, making him on paper an obvious candidate for the White House.
By the time he won the California governorship in 2019, the Getty family had sunk at least $500,000 into funding Newsom's political campaigns.
He doesn't seem to have many real friends,' Katherine Munson, a childhood friend of Newsom, told the New Yorker magazine in 2018.
Their divorce was finalized in 2006 and six months later, Newsom - then 39 - raised eyebrows when he started dating a teenager half his age, the 19-year-old model and restaurant hostess Brittanie Mountz.
In January 2007, Newsom's best friend and campaign manager, Alex Tourk, publicly confronted him after his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, apparently in rehab for substance abuse at the time, admitted she and Gavin had an affair in 2005 when she was also employed by him as a secretary.
Newsom - who had just told ordinary Californians not to even sit down with friends for Thanksgiving dinner - initially insisted the party had been outdoors, but photo evidence quickly proved otherwise.
We all fall short sometimes,' Newsom - whose lockdown measures were among the strictest in the country - blubbered to the LA Times.
In 2018, the LA Times had reported that Newsom's partial ownership of PlumpJack 'raises the same conflict-of-interest red flags that continue to surround Donald Trump's presidency'.
Post-Covid, California lurches from crisis to crisis under Newsom's watch.
Newsom has overseen the disastrous roll-out of a legal cannabis market in California, and is now looking to find ways of opening up psychedelic drug-usage to the public.
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