Pilar Ashcombe
Pilar Ashcombe covers San Francisco society and the public lives of its billionaires, from galas, museum and opera boards and art collections to landmark homes and the city’s old and new fortunes, for the Inquirer’s Billionaires desk.
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At 92, Gordon Getty remains a pillar of San Francisco music, as patron and as composer
The oil heir turned composer has spent four decades underwriting the city’s opera, orchestras and choruses, and this year the institutions he funds turned the spotlight back on his own work.
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Jack Dorsey’s Sea Cliff renovation, now in its 14th year, gets a fresh set of city permits
City records show the Block co-founder filed this summer to restart and finish earlier work on his Sea Cliff homes, as building fills the enclave.