Kimberly Guilfoyle, President Trump’s ambassador to Greece, asked a Trump donor to quietly pay her $100,000 American Express bill days before her Senate confirmation hearing, according to messages reported by The Wall Street Journal. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” one message said.
The donor, Kentucky lawyer and former congressional candidate Eric Deters, says he never paid. Guilfoyle denies wrongdoing, and her lawyer told the Journal she doesn’t believe the messages are authentic.
What did Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly ask the donor?
According to the Journal, the Signal messages were sent on July 3, 2025, six days before Guilfoyle’s confirmation hearing. “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” one said, with a praying-hands emoji and a PDF of AmEx payment instructions. Another promised that if he paid, “I will be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever,” FOX 5 reported.
Deters wanted help getting the new administration’s attention on personal tax and legal issues and had promised up to $1 million if Guilfoyle lobbied successfully for him, the report said. She allegedly bragged she could reach “every secretary of you know defense, transportation, treasury commerce IRS commissioner everyone gets right back to me.” In another message, she allegedly asked him to “stop papering all these things” and just call her on Signal.
Deters said he didn’t pay because it “would cost him his marriage” and that “she never came through on anything.” The Journal reported Guilfoyle had been telling friends she was “broke” before her hearing.
What does Guilfoyle say?
Her lawyer told the Journal she doesn’t believe the messages are real but “declined to provide specifics,” and said Guilfoyle was owed money for speaking at “patriotic events” before she became ambassador. Deters says he doesn’t owe her anything.
Will anyone investigate?
The top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees have called for an investigation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was in Greece this week, wouldn’t say whether he’d open one. “You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel,” he told reporters Thursday, with Guilfoyle standing nearby. He called her “a strong ambassador.”
It’s the second Journal story about her in a month. In September, the paper reported she told guests at a reception that the U.S. could undermine the Greek government if it wanted to, promoted one Greek company’s business interests and let its lobbyist into private diplomatic meetings.
The BeezLoop Take
Asking someone who wants favors from the government to secretly pay your credit card bill, right before you’re confirmed to a government job, is about as clear a red flag as Washington gets. If the messages are fake, Guilfoyle should say exactly what’s wrong with them. “I don’t believe they’re authentic” isn’t an answer.
Rubio’s reaction is the bigger problem. The secretary of state didn’t say he’d look into it. He attacked the reporting. That tells every ambassador and appointee that access for cash won’t be checked from inside this administration, which is why Congress needs to do it.
The open question: did anyone else get the same pitch, and did anyone pay?
Also on BeezLoop: Fox News paid a former Guilfoyle assistant more than $4 million, part of a harassment history it left out of its 30th anniversary, and four Americans were hours from flying home when their Athens building exploded.
Sources: The Wall Street Journal, via FOX 5 New York and the AP · KRON4 · The Hill · NBC News
