Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 74.
Number of people pictured whose names we recognize: 12. (representative sample: Jonny Moseley, the omnipresent George and Charlotte Shultz, Gavin and child model Brittanie Mountz, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind.)
Minority count: 1 (1.38888%.)
Getty v. Traina: 5-30. This week's event is a party at the DeYoung museum thrown by Dede Wilsey in honor of her son Trevor Traina's recent marriage! (30 = number of times any Traina was mentioned in the piece.)
Age of Gavin Newsom's companion: 19 (or is it 25?)
Stanlee Gattee count: 6.
Number of hats, eyepatches, and cloaks: 0, 1, 1.
Number of roses (in Dede's favorite shade of pale pink) used to decorate Wilsey Court: 250,000.
Number of rose-producing countries Dede Wilsey and Stanlee Gattee say she owns now: 2 (Chile and Ecuador).
Number of rose balls cascading the steps of the main staircase in homage to the gargantuan Richter on the opposite wall (and in the urinals too): 250.
Number of rose balls Gavin Newsom dared Dede Wilsey to bowl down the staircase (which Jonny Moseley thought might make a good mogul run): More than him.
Projects that Dede Wilsey has seen to completion: 4 (raising her children, nursing her late husband Al Wilsey, rebuilding a house that burned down in Napa, building the DeYoung).
Number of times Dede Wilsey's stepson Sean is mentioned: 0
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Well...
If you want to get technical about it Sean Wilsey isn't Dede's son. He's her step-son. Apparently, (according to Sean by way of his book-Oh the Glory of it All) that makes all the difference.
thanks for pointing that out, samsgrrll! I remembered that myself right after the post went live and went back and fixed it (so it's corrected in the text).
I'm sure Sean Wilsey is crushed that he didn't get to rose bowl with Stepbro and Gavin Newsom!
Why is he dating a 19-year-old? Seriously.
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Looks like Gavins 19 year old going on 25 is now 26.
awww, happy birthday, Brit-Brit!
Yeah, her real age needs to be disclosed and proven. That Sonoma State lacrosse pic was from the 2005 season, right, so realistically she could be 22 or 23. Unless she started college late, or took her sweet time graduating, I don't think she's 25/26.
I personally don't have a problem with Gavin dating. However, if he plans to run for higher public office, he has to be careful what he does publicly. Escorting someone who may very well be a teenager does not make him look good. Nor does dating a $cientologist.
I guess he doesn't care about his image as some of us do. That's a shame. But then maybe he isn't the politician with great potential that everyone thinks he is?
This whole thing has to be a joke...
His advisors should put a line item in Monday’s agenda -- dating life. If you ask me, all this sluting around of himself is not that appealing and shows no emotional consistency.
Also, have you noticed that he is always with politically "unavailable" types...scientology, reality tv, barely legal. You would think for a guy so concerned with political advancement and image he would either fly under the radar screen, start a relationship with an “available” female or come out of the closet.
Hmmmmm…something to think about.
That is so funny...Sasha I did not see your comment until after I posted mine. I guess we may be on to something here.
I agree with you he is not protecting his image or his public position AT ALL!
Ummmmm, what if she is his beard? That's what I've heard.
Under "Projects that Dede Wilsey has seen to completion" you forgot one: Stealing Pat Montandon's husband along with his ill-gotten fortune from the rest of his family. Otherwise, that particular "Swells" page really was a grotesque Marie Antoinette moment, Barbary Coast version, wasn't it? My favorite line in the text was on the order of "Dede has been dying to have her own private party at the museum where she could make it her own." And this is the bitch who demands that cars be allowed in "her" patch of Golden Gate Park every Sunday.