Yee-haw, SF Mayor Newsom treks to Montana ranch for next wedding

Wait, you can't go to bed without knowing this!

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who's seriously pondering a run to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger as California's governor in 2011, got married again today.

The 40-year-old Newsom traveled all the way to Montana, where straight marriages are still legal, to marry actress Jennifer Siebel on her family's ranchland near Stevensville in the scenic Bitterroot Valley.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and ex-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown were among the guests who also traveled to Big Sky country for the ceremony by a river on the Siebel family ranch, according to the AP.

It's the first marriage for Siebel, who is 34 and has appeared in the NBC series "Life," and the next wedding for Newsom, who divorced Kimberly Guilfoyle 28 months ago.

The newlyweds met around the same time, and Siebel, a Bay Area native who prefers the country setting of Montana, stood by Newsom when he publicly admitted being an alcoholic and having had an affair with a mayoral staff member's wife. She was also by his side when he was sworn in for a second term last January (see photo).

(UPDATE: Nathan Ballard, Newsom's communications director, sends the following correction: "You wrote that Mayor Newsom 'publicly admitted being an alcoholic.' That is not accurate. It is true that in February 2007,  the Mayor quit drinking and sought counseling.")

Because Montana isn't far enough away from City Hall in San Francisco, the couple will honeymoon in Africa, which is often sunnier.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Photo credit: Jeff Chiu / Associated Press

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Comments

[Tito Edwards]

Mayor Newsom is a sad person who is misguided by the zeitgeist. He prays to the Golden Calph of political correctness in order to push his own diabolical agenda of pornography and libertine behavior.

[~M]

Ha! Tito, at least Newsom probably knows how to spell "calf".

[JBP1998]

Who cares? He won't be faithful to this one either.

[coolrepublica]

That mayor guys has the worst face in the world. Something about his face says beware. He looks like Michael Douglas in Wall Street.

I wish his new wife luck, something tells me she is not going to be the new wife for long. But something also tells me that she doesn't care either way.

[Dennis D]

Newsom should be arrested for violating US Immigration laws . Everyone knows he is a closet Homosexual. This is a marriage of convenience,

[candide]

Newsome is everything people hate about San Francisco.

[Penny Miller D'Antonio]

My sincerest best wishes to Jennifer and congratulations to Gavin Newsom. May joy, love, tenderness and grace be yours through rain and sunshine and all the days of your lives.

[Alessandro Machi]

I think Newsome showed a huge error in judgement in sleeping with the wife of someone who was closely wth Newsome on his campaign.

If he runs for governor, isn't he a train wreck waiting to happen?

[kent]

Yes, he may look like a politican and has a beautiful wife, but if he's our Governor, this state will be in some serious trouble. San Francisco is one big drop house. Will the whole state of CA be next? Why don't we just open the border and fire the border patrol.

[Mufon]

Thank heavens the Times has also resorted to fawning over attractive political figures' personal lives, like the television news. That way we can push other insignificant issues, like the slaying of the 8-year-old girl in South Los Angeles a few short days ago, onto the back burner where they belong. Why deal with difficult issues when we don't have to?

[gary]

because of the murder of an entire family by a proected illegal gang banger and other foolish actions by him he has so much blood on his hands and I can assure you could care less. he is the spolied brat gavin newsom who has his mommy and daddys money and friends to remind him he is wonderful and people love him. right, he is more dangerous then the criminals he protects.

[SteveJJ]

Who really cares about Gavin Newsome? I think his first wife is more sexier than his current skank. Gavin Newsome will never be Governor of California. He has made San Francisco a city of darkness and socialist waning. He seriously should think about a job with Code Pink or as a spokesman for ACORN. He is a dumbass.

[Lizard]

What a petty, stupid article. Happily, in the years ahead, Gavin Newsom will be remembered as a civil rights pioneer and you'll be remembered as....ummmm......well, not at all.

Mazel tov, Gavin and Jennifer! If there's anyone in this country who has earned the full privileges and pleasures of marriage, it's you!

[the truth hurts]

Look at the liberal spreading his agenda. It is sad. I feel sorry for this low life person. Maybe the liberals of California will elect him governor. The state will then go further downhill and the liberals will blame the other side. Have you ever seen a liberal take responsibility for their actions. Look at Pelosi and Reid. What a sorry bunch.

[Nefarious Scribbler]

Why cant some men breathe unless they're married? Is this deep rooted desire born from a relentless desire to mold to a societal norm? There is NO WAY this clown is going to be governor after sleeping with his best friend's wife, an employee too that also was made rich from tax payer money with mayoral favors.

How did this man win re-election, were the cadidates there that bad?'

Just look at his eyes and you see his is a total scum bag.

This new wife has plans to be the first lady of California, once she learns that isnt going to happen she'll take him for whatever he's got left over from the first marriage...

IDIOTS. Our country is FULL of them.

[andy]

:] next gov of california ! ! !

[Thomas Mc]

quote: "He prays to the Golden Calph of political correctness in order to push his own diabolical agenda of pornography and libertine behavior."

Wow, partisan slander much???

[Horace]

As a San Franciscan who found himself in LA for several years now I have been ambivalent about my feelings for Newsom. On SFGate.com Willie Brown now has some sheepish column espousing his friendships and the swanky goings-on he attends. Brown was at the wedding and dropped many a name and made Mayor Newsom and the Montana event sound like a shamelessly exclusive affair, right out of a Vanity Fair society page. Too bad SF has a shaby rep as a haunt of bleary eyed liberals who can't find it in their imaginations to get married THERE-one of Earth's beautiful cities, no doubt, especially while MAYOR FOR A SECOND TERM! Believe it or not SF has a significant native population driven into Conservatism by bits like this.

[chris cameron]

Congrats to Gavin Newsome and his new wife. Note to Tito Edwards in comments: allowing adult couples who love each other to make a legal commitment is not a "diabolical agenda of pornography." Advocating for civil rights and equality is not "political correctness." Here's hoping that someday you will open your heart to others who are different than you. Live and let live, folks.

[david]

Andrew, you couldn't even call it a second marriage for Newsom? His next wedding? I 'm sure you did not know how his first marriage ended in scandal with the proud mayor having an affair with another city worker's wife.

(Too bad you didn't read the entire item.)

[john]

Newsom should have crossed illegally into Mexico and demanded that he be married there and given affirmative action for a new job helping illegal immigrants live in Mexico. Wait, Mexico isn't that misguided a country. Okay, never mind.

[Dan]

You got to be kidding me right? This idiot is responsible for the death of three people due to his sanctuary policies. This idiot will never be Governor of this messed up State of ours.

[sam]

Why so mean, people? Gavin looks happy and from everything I've read it seems like he has really done a great job up in SF recently.

Congrats to him and his new wife (who looks hot...maybe explaining some of the comments above...jealous, anyone?).

[markmac]

Tito's right, but "libertine" doesn't begin to describe it. There were also reports in the press that Newsom took one of his girlfriends, who wasn't old enough to buy alcohol, to the city's bars ("Has the mayor's new girlfriend, who is only 20, been drinking?", San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 15, 2006). The latest is his administration's putting the city's computer system -- and all of the residents' records -- into the hands of a criminal, this boneheaded personnel move only now coming out because this dude seized the system from the city, forcing Newsom to see him in his jail cell to plead with him for the passwords so that the city could get its computers back ("Newsom helps S.F. re-boot", LA Times, July 25, 2008). This so-called computer tech had been convicted two or more times, including once for robbery and burglary at knifepoint ("S.F. computer tech had turned life around", San Francisco Chronicle, July 27, 2008). Not to mention Newsom's attempted moves against the homeless and sex workers, targeting anyone hanging out on the street who doesn't look middle class, his pushing gentrification against the mostly black residents of Bayview - Hunter's Point, Newsom's (and previous administrations') policies already having gentrified the Fillmore, cutting the city's black population from about 18 to eight percent since the 1980s, the deterioration of our public transit system MUNI -- as a 20-year resident of the city, I could cite many other examples. Newsom caters to his corporate base (his transportation to his wedding being paid for by Google on a luxury jet), and the city's upper-middle and upper class, and he's photogenic and media-savvy. He's a menace to the rest of us. As a gay man, and in the middle class, I urge Los Angelinos to work against this opportunistic turkey should he run for governor.

[Kendoll]

I wish he would just stay there. Maybe San Francisco could then elect someone with some real leadership ability. He's dreaming he thinks in can run for governor.

[Dan]

As far as anyone knows, he was faithful to his first wife. They had already split when he had the affair with the staffer's wife.

[Ricardp]

I love SF. Let's find the goofiest little doofus we can and make him mayor. That will show everyone how sophisticated and independent we are.

[savemygreenbeans]

uh... why is the Mayor of S.F getting married L.A. Times news worthy? I guess it's nice to know at least that the Times wears its liberal agenda on its sleeve.

[rocketman]

Congrats to Gavin. Despite some of the above comments, people who are actually familiar with the good work you have done in SF (like me) admire you a great deal.

[none]

You are all nuts.

[Horace]

i appreciate Newsom's civil rights stand for gay marriage, but i'm hung up on the fact he didn't get married in the CITY. SF is a native conscious, proud place, which, like it or not battles LA for Cali respect and West Coast respect, even though it need not fight for it. But these little things, a young, seemingly popular mayor, not recognizing the political necessity of being married and celebrating in his town bothers me. Petty though it is, it matters.

[max]

you guys, he has the right to move on from the past and get married again.. doesn't he? besides, maybe he found true love this time. who are we to judge him? lets judge our own lives first, and then go around pointing fingers at people.:)