{"id":227641,"date":"2026-10-15T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/kimberly-guilfoyle-ousted-as-us-ambassador-to-greece-after-alleged-misconduct-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:57:19","slug":"kimberly-guilfoyle-ousted-as-us-ambassador-to-greece-after-alleged-misconduct-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/kimberly-guilfoyle-ousted-as-us-ambassador-to-greece-after-alleged-misconduct-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly Guilfoyle ousted as US ambassador to Greece after alleged misconduct – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House told Guilfoyle, who is alleged to have sought a bill payment from a Trump donor, to resign from post
Kimberly Guilfoyle is stepping down as US ambassador to Greece after weeks of reports that she sought payment from a Trump donor in exchange for access to administration officials.
The decision, announced by the White House on Tuesday morning, ends the diplomatic career of one of Donald Trump\u2019s longest-standing political allies. It came after the US president and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, were reported <\/a>to have grown furious over the allegations.
\u201cWe have asked Ambassador Guilfyole to resign, she has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well,\u201d said Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, during her first briefing on Tuesday.
Guilfoyle \u2013 the former fiancee of Trump\u2019s eldest son, Donald Trump<\/a> Jr \u2013 later confirmed her departure from the post, which she described as the \u201chonor of a lifetime\u201d, and denied what she described as \u201cfalse\u201d allegations.
Pledging to \u201cvigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity\u201d in a post on social media, she wrote: \u201cWhile my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end.\u201d
The most serious claim, first reported<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal on 8 October, centers on the donor Eric Deters.
Citing Signal messages, the paper reported that in July 2025, days before her Senate confirmation hearing, Guilfoyle pressed Deters to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill, assuring him the transfer would not show up anywhere. \u201cHoney please I need you to get this done for me today,\u201d she wrote, according to the report.
Guilfoyle offered to use her influence on his tax and legal problems in return and told him she had contacted the IRS commissioner and the justice department on his behalf.
He has also said he paid Guilfoyle about $300,000 over the years without receiving \u201cone favor\u201d, and told MS Now<\/a> the request \u201cabsolutely was a quid pro quo\u201d.
Guilfoyle also expressed concern about the exchanges becoming public, according to the Wall Street Journal. \u201cEric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,\u201d she wrote in one message. In another, she told him: \u201cWhat a nightmare you\u2019ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing.\u201d She urged him to call her on Signal instead.
The Journal has also reported that Guilfoyle accepted improper gifts and services, made an alleged threat to a host-country official, and promoted the interests of a Greek company, Aktor, during official engagements. A lawyer for Guilfoyle, Jesse Binnall, said she disputes the authenticity of the messages.
Guilfoyle, 57, a former San Francisco prosecutor who was married until 2006 to Gavin Newsom, California\u2019s governor, became a fixture of Trump\u2019s political orbit after leaving Fox News in 2018 as she began dating Trump Jr. The couple became engaged in late 2020, and she was a prominent speaker at Trump\u2019s campaign events, including the 2024 Republican national convention, before breaking up soon after in September 2024.
Trump, as president-elect, then named her for the Athens post in December 2024, weeks after his election win, calling her \u201ca close friend and ally\u201d. That month, Trump Jr had been photographed<\/a> holding hands with Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite, and Guilfoyle was absent from the family\u2019s post-election portrait, which did include Trump Jr\u2019s ex-wife and their children. Trump Jr married Anderson in May.
The nomination stalled for months in the Senate until Republicans used the \u201cnuclear option\u201d in September 2025 to overcome a Democratic filibuster and confirm her by simple majority. She was sworn in as the first woman to represent the US in Greece, succeeding the Biden appointee George Tsunis, and arrived in Athens in late October 2025.
It ends a tenure that lasted less than a year. Hours before Tuesday\u2019s announcement, the Greek government had denied any suggestion the ambassador was on her way out. \u201cThere has been no relevant request, nor has it been discussed with Greek authorities,\u201d said Pavlos Marinakis, a government spokesman, when asked if she would resign.
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But speculation had been rife. The allegations of misconduct engulfing the envoy were not only embarrassing for Guilfoyle. The Greek media had begun to speak of the US embassy being \u201cheadless\u201d and dysfunctional only days after Rubio\u2019s high-profile visit to the country. \u201cIf truth be told, she is not respected in Athens,\u201d one well-placed insider confided.
Alec Mally, a former senior US diplomat who had handled Greek affairs at the US state department, told the Guardian the US embassy in Athens had been put \u201cin an impossible situation because the ambassador had increasingly come across almost as if she were representing an old-style Balkan country\u201d.
\u201cWith allegations multiplying daily, the question was whether her Trump family Teflon was anywhere near sufficient to keep her in the job,\u201d Mally said. \u201cIt would not surprise me if the Greek public reacts with joy to the news of her resignation.\u201d
Although there were some who argued the direct access to Trump \u201coutweighed all the negatives\u201d there were many who thought her appointment had been \u201can insult to the country\u2019s reputation\u201d, he added.
In recent weeks Guilfoyle had done what she had rarely done in the whirlwind 11 months since she assumed the post: remained out of sight. But reported claims she had told Greece\u2019s energy minister that Washington was capable of toppling any government \u2013 including the center-right administration in Athens \u2013 if they didn\u2019t toe the line had stirred outrage. On the left where many have still not forgotten Washington\u2019s support of the 1967-74 military dictatorship, Guilfoyle\u2019s comments had caused widespread consternation.
On 9 October in a stormy debate in parliament, Giorgos Gerapetritis, Greece\u2019s foreign minister, was forced to deny the claim \u2013 one of several surrounding the US envoy\u2019s alleged improper behavior reported by the Wall Street Journal \u2013 beforeSia Anagnostopoulos, the prominent leftwing politician and former deputy foreign minister, who had said it was \u201ca question of national dignity that the American ambassador is called to give an explanation\u201d.
Within hours of arriving in Greece, Guilfoyle was seen at a bouzouki music club, attending a party thrown by a popular singer who would go on to be one of her closest friends in Athens. \u201cI think we can safely say she was like no ambassador Greece has ever seen before,\u201d said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cI don\u2019t think that in these uncertain times many will be shedding tears at the news of her departure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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