Kimberly Guilfoyle, U.S. ambassador to Greece, resigns amid misconduct allegations
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“Serving as the United States Ambassador to Greece has been the honor of a lifetime,” Guilfoyle said Tuesday in a post on X announcing her resignation.
She also addressed “recent allegations against me,” writing, “These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”
Guilfoyle’s post came shortly after new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia told reporters that Guilfoyle had been asked to step down.
“We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” Zacharia said at her inaugural White House press briefing. “She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.”
Speaking to reporters later Tuesday morning, Trump said of Guilfoyle: “She went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn’t like what we were reading.”
Guilfoyle, 57, the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., has been under investigation by the State Department’s inspector general’s office, two people familiar with the decision confirmed to NBC News last week.
Kimberly Guilfoyle in Athens. Costas Baltas / Anadolu via Getty The probe came after The Wall Street Journal reported 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 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 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.
“She was so desperate for that $100,000. It was a quid pro quo,” Deters told NBC News in an interview.
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A text message provided by Deters appeared to show Guilfoyle instructing him to wire the money directly to American Express because “it won’t show up anywhere” 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 “sought, obtained and followed State Department guidance and followed the Department’s travel regulations.”
Asked Tuesday whether she would launch her own investigation into Guilfoyle’s conduct, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, referred back to the State Department probe.
“I think right now that there is an inspector general investigation in the Department of State. We’ll probably wait to see what comes, what happens with that,” 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…
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