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The drive from San Francisco to the Napa Valley takes only a little more than an hour, . Festival Napa Valley celebrates musics unmatched power to enrich, uplift and inspire. }, 100); I couldnt care less. In fact, doing so is something of a family tradition. }, . Wilsey and I are 30 minutes into an hour-long conversation, and I . + '

' All of our good times were up here, Trevor, son of the late shipping mogul John Traina and the philanthropist Dede Wilsey, says of the six-acre property. The 475-page memoir, to be published by Penguin Press, has it all, from sex, drugs and marital infidelity to famous names, lavish parties and conspicuous consumption. Although the exact amount she has donated over the years is not known, Wilsey helped bring in more than $200 million to rebuild the, lthough her role as a member of the board has her at the museum several days of the week, she looks at the de Young with childlike wonder. When I first arrived at the French Laundry, Napa Valleys iconic images of vineyard-latticed hills dotted with chateaus and bountiful farms and orchards resonated with me. When she'd come to San Francisco in 1960, she was divorced from an Air Force major. var ctx = this; But though they threatened to give up on him, his mother, Montandon, and his father continued to support him financially, ever trying to find a new school that would set him straight. function checkCookies() { Al Wilsey died in 2002 at the age of 82. . But I can understand what theyre talking about when you have human feces and syringes and all these things. Paul Pelosi's DUI arrest over Memorial Day Weekend in Napa has become major fodder for right-wing loons who have been misinformed that he's skirting any charges, but society doyenne Dede Wilsey . Romance novelist. "We'll teach him a lesson together." Feature Stories, News, One On One, Philanthropy. The picture was of a house, a villa. + '