| Kimberly Guilfoyle | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle March 9, 1969 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Legal Analyst and Co-Host (Fox News Channel) |
| Spouse | Gavin Newsom (m. 2001–2006) Eric Villency (m. 2006–2009) |
| Website | |
| Biography on FoxNews.com | |
Kimberly Guilfoyle (born March 9, 1969)[1] is an American cable news personality and is currently one of the rotating co-hosts on The Five on Fox News Channel at 5 pm EST [2], as well as the host of an Internet-only crime-related program for Fox News. She is a contributor to The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, and frequently appears on the late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She was previously an anchor at Court TV and a legal analyst/commentator for CNN and ABC. She is the ex-wife of California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.
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Guilfoyle graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1994. While in school, she worked as a Macy's catalog model. 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.[3]
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 was re-hired by Hallinan in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where she served as an Assistant District Attorney from 2000 to 2004. While Assistant D.A., she and lead prosecutor James Hammer 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.[4]
In January 2004, Guilfoyle moved to New York to host the program Both Sides on Court TV, as well as to take a job as a legal analyst on Anderson Cooper 360.
Guilfoyle joined Fox News Channel in February 2006, as host of the weekend show The Lineup. Fox re-launched the show with new music and graphics specifically as a vehicle for Guilfoyle. The Lineup was eventually canceled, but Guilfoyle remains a prominent personality at the channel as well as the midnight hour online slot on FoxNews.com Live. Guilfoyle also is on The O'Reilly Factor's recurring segment "Is it Legal?" and a Thursday guest on Brian Kilmeade's Kilmeade and Friends radio show. She appears as one of the recurring co-hosts of the new series The Five.
Guilfoyle is a second-generation American. She 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. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis. She received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of San Francisco Law School.
In 2001, 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 2005, citing the strain of a bi-coastal marriage, Guilfoyle filed for divorce from Newsom. Their divorce was finalized on February 28, 2006.[5]
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.[6] On June 23, 2009, it was announced that Guilfoyle and Villency had separated.[7]