CULTURE

Pacific Heights

by W Magazine

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Photographer: Larry Sultan

High society isn’t dead after all. It has a new home in San Francisco’s wealthiest enclave. But watch out: There’s a lot of drama behind those Golden Gates. __Read the related “Pacific Heights” article.__

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Vanessa and Billy Getty at home in Pacific Heights, along with their two Oriental shorthair cats.

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Gordon and Ann Getty in the covered courtyard of their more than 30,000-square-foot mansion, nicknamed the Embassy..

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Dede Wilsey, whose favorite colors are green, like her emeralds, and pink.

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The dog bed in Dede Wilsey’s breakfast room.

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in his office.

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New York transplants Sloan and Roger Barnett and family.

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The city’s creative types include, from left, Stanlee Gatti, novelist Robert Mailer Anderson (Boonville) and Jo Schuman Silver, producer of the musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon.

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Trevor Traina and his new wife, Alexis Swanson, in their bedroom.

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Denise Hale in her Russian Hill apartment.