Kimberly Guilfoyle

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name = Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle


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birth_date = Birth date and age|1969|3|9|mf=y
birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
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spouse = Gavin Newsom (2001 - 2006)
Eric Villency (2006 - Present)
occupation = Host of "The Lineup" (Fox News Channel)
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website = [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182882,00.html Biography on FoxNews.com]

Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle (born March 9, 1969) is an American cable news personality and is currently the anchor of "The Lineup", a weekend crime show that airs on the Fox News Channel, and was previously an anchor at Court TV and a legal analyst/commentator for CNN and ABC. She is the ex-wife of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Guilfoyle previously served as an Assistant District Attorney at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office from 2000 to 2004. While Assistant D.A., she earned a conviction in the 2002 case "People v. Noel and Knoller", a second-degree murder trial involving a dog mauling, that received international attention.Jones, Aphrodite. "Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling". New York: William Morrow, 2003. ISBN 0060537795] At the trial, Guilfoyle was "second chair" to lead prosecutor James Hammer.^(p.211)

Guilfoyle was born in San Francisco to a Puerto Rican mother and an Irish father. She grew up in the Mission District and Westlake and is a graduate of Mercy High School, the University of California, Davis, and the University of San Francisco Law School. While in school, she worked as a catalogue model for Macy's and Victoria's Secret. After law school, she briefly worked as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but lost her job in 1996 when Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney and fired 14 of the city's prosecutors. [ [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/02/07/NEWS16043.dtl&hw=guilfoyle&sn=006&sc=687 Hallinan defends firing of deputies ] ]

Guilfoyle then spent four years in Los Angeles as a Deputy District Attorney, working on adult and juvenile cases, including narcotics, domestic violence, kidnapping, robbery, arson, sexual assault and homicide cases. She received several awards at the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, including Prosecutor of the Month.

In 2000, Guilfoyle returned to her former job in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, still under the administration of Terrence Hallinan. The following year, she married Gavin Newsom, then a city supervisor, who was elected mayor in 2003. While married to Newsom, she went by the name Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom.

In January, 2004, Guilfoyle moved to New York to host the program "Both Sides" on Court TV, as well as take a job as a legal analyst on "Anderson Cooper 360". In January 2005, citing the strain of a bi-coastal marriage, Guilfoyle filed for divorce from Newsom. Their divorce was finalized on February 28, 2006. [ [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/10/MNGBAHM73D5.DTL&hw=guilfoyle&sn=004&sc=462 Gavin and Kimberly are officially divorced ] ] Guilfoyle took over as host of the Fox News Channel weekend show "The Lineup" on February 11, 2006. Fox relaunched the show with new music and graphics specifically as a vehicle for Guilfoyle.

On May 27, 2006, Guilfoyle married furniture heir Eric Villency on the island of Barbados. On October 4, 2006, she gave birth to her first child, a boy named Ronan Anthony. [ [http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/10/04/the_littlest_guilfency.php Entries from SFist tagged with '2006/10/04/the_littlest_guilfency' ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.foxyguilfoyle.typepad.com Foxy Guilfoyle - The Home of All Things Kimberly Guilfoylish]
* [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/02/07/NEWS16043.dtl&hw=guilfoyle&sn=006&sc=687 "Hallinan defends firing of deputies," Eric Brazil, "San Francisco Chronicle", February 7, 1996, p. A-1]
* [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/10/MNGBAHM73D5.DTL&hw=guilfoyle&sn=004&sc=462 "Gavin and Kimberly are officially divorced," Rachel Gordon, "San Francisco Chronicle", March 10, 2006]
* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182882,00.html Kimberly Guilfoyle bio on FoxNews.com]