<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Kimberly Guilfoyle and Gavin Newsom were married from 2001 to 2006.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ; Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Trump advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle were married from 2001 to 2006.</li><li>They stayed friends after their divorce, even when Guilfoyle began dating Donald Trump Jr. in 2018.</li></ul><p>When political power couple <a target="_blank" rel href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom-career-timeline"><u>Gavin Newsom</u></a> and <a target="_blank" rel href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-don-jr-president-trump-fox-news-2020-10?r=guilfoyle-teaser"><u>Kimberly Guilfoyle</u></a> announced their divorce in 2005, they said in a joint statement that they would stay "close friends."</p><p>Newsom went on to become governor of California and was floated as a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, while Guilfoyle became a conservative influencer and advisor in the Trump White House when she <a target="_blank" rel href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-kimberly-guilfoyle-timeline-2021-2"><u>began dating his son, Donald Trump Jr.</u></a></p><p>Despite their political differences, Guilfoyle and Newsom remained friends for years until things began to deteriorate around the 2020 presidential election.</p><p>Here's what <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-gavin-newsom-married-timeline-photos-2023-12">Newsom and Guilfoyle</a> have said publicly about each other through the years.</p>