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U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle<\/a>, once a top campaign surrogate for President Donald Trump, has resigned at the behest of the White House<\/a> amid a misconduct probe.
\u201cServing as the United States Ambassador to Greece has been the honor of a lifetime,\u201d Guilfoyle said Tuesday in a post on X<\/a> announcing her resignation.
She also addressed \u201crecent allegations against me,\u201d writing, \u201cThese allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.\u201d
Guilfoyle\u2019s post came shortly after new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia told reporters that Guilfoyle had been asked to step down.
\u201cWe have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,\u201d Zacharia said at her inaugural White House briefing. \u201cShe has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.\u201d
Speaking to reporters later Tuesday morning, Trump said of Guilfoyle: \u201cShe went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn\u2019t like what we were reading.\u201d
He added that he had not spoken to her.
A White House official said Tuesday afternoon that the White House had received Guilfoyle\u2019s formal resignation.
Guilfoyle, 57, the former fianc\u00e9e of Donald Trump Jr., has been under investigation<\/a> by the State Department\u2019s inspector general\u2019s office, two people familiar with the decision confirmed to NBC News last week.
The probe came after The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> allegations of misconduct in her role as ambassador, including allegations that she bragged about her connections to Greek tycoons who she said funded luxury trips<\/a> for her. The article cited people who heard the conversation and an audio recording. NBC News has not independently confirmed the allegations.
A Trump donor named Eric Deters <\/a>came forward this month accusing her of asking him to pay her outstanding $100,000 American Express bill in the days before her 2025 Senate confirmation hearing in exchange for access to senior administration officials.
\u201cShe was so desperate for that $100,000. It was a quid pro quo,\u201d Deters told NBC News<\/a> in an interview.
\u201cShe said I could ask her for anything and everything in Trump world. There was no request too big,\u201d he added.
A text message provided by Deters appeared to show Guilfoyle instructing him to wire the money directly to American Express because \u201cit won\u2019t show up anywhere\u201d that way. He said he did not pay her the money.
Attorneys for Guilfoyle said in a statement Monday that Deters owed her the money for speaking engagements, which he denies.
The attorneys, David Schwartz and Jesse Binnall, also denied allegations of any impropriety involving her travel, saying she \u201csought, obtained and followed State Department guidance and followed the Department\u2019s travel regulations.\u201d
Asked Tuesday whether she would launch her own investigation into Guilfoyle\u2019s conduct, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, referred back to the State Department probe.
\u201cI think right now that there is an inspector general investigation in the Department of State. We\u2019ll probably wait to see what comes, what happens with that,\u201d Pirro told reporters.
After the reports about her conduct first surfaced last week, Guilfoyle thought she could save her job and was making calls to allies as recently as Monday in a continued effort to do that, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The person added that there was concern among senior White House aides about what a State Department inspector general probe would find and reveal that has not been made public yet and that could be embarrassing for the president and his administration.
Asked Friday about the reports of Guilfoyle\u2019s conduct, Trump said it was \u201ctoo bad.\u201d
\u201cI just heard a little bit about it. I don\u2019t know too much, but she was always very nice,\u201d he said.
His tone had hardened by Monday. Asked whether he was considering firing her, he said: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at it. We\u2019re not happy.\u201d
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended Guilfoyle last week.
Vance said \u201cthese are accusations\u201d and \u201cwe don\u2019t try people in the court of public opinion.\u201d
\u201cLet\u2019s actually see what the facts are. Let\u2019s see what the truth is, and obviously if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it,\u201d he said.
Rubio, meanwhile, ripped a reporter for asking about the allegations while he was with her in Athens.
\u201cWe don\u2019t conduct these things in a press conference on a tarmac in a foreign country because you wrote a story or somebody else wrote a story because some source gave it to you,\u201d Rubio said Thursday.
\u201cI don\u2019t even know if what you\u2019re reporting is true.\u201d
Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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