President Donald Trump is reportedly considering dismissing the U.S. ambassador to Greece, former Fox News host and ex-fiancée of Donald Trump Jr. Kimberly Guilfoyle, following reports of alleged misconduct before and during her tenure in Athens.
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Trump → consider → Athens
The Associated Press and CNN, citing unnamed sources, said that a decision on Guilfoyle is expected soon.
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decision → cite → Guilfoyle
A senior U.S. official told the AP on Sunday that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are “extremely pissed off” by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct and would likely assess future action after the Monday U.S. holiday.
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Trump → tell → holiday
The controversy emerged in late September, when the Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of reports about Guilfoyle’s questionable activities—including promoting a Greek construction firm, bragging about luxury trips paid for by businessmen, and asking a Trump donor to pay a $100,000 credit card bill in exchange for getting the attention of the Trump Administration.
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Journal → emerge → Administration
The State Department’s inspector general is looking into the allegations, the AP and the Journal reported.
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AP → look → allegations
TIME has reached out to the White House and the State Department for comment, as well as a lawyer for Guilfoyle.
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TIME → reach → Guilfoyle
The reports surfaced around Rubio’s multiple-day visit to Europe last week, when the Secretary of State boasted about the Trump Administration’s achievements and Guilfoyle attended most of his events in Athens.
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Guilfoyle → surface → Athens
When asked about the reports on Oct. 8, Rubio at first appeared incredulous, telling journalists: “I don’t even know if what you’re reporting is true.
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reporting → ask → what
You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel.
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it → walk → it
It’s not the gospel.
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It’s not the gospel for me.”
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As the reports emerged, Trump did not defend Guilfoyle, who was in a relationship with his eldest son between 2018 and 2024.
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who → emerge → 2018
“I just heard about it—too bad,” the President told reporters on Friday.
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President → hear → Friday
“I mean, I don’t know.
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She’s an ambassador.
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I just heard a little bit about it.
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I don’t know too much.
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Vice President J.D. Vance reserved comment on the reporting around Guilfoyle, though he said Thursday that he does not like “anybody selling access to another government official, certainly a high-level government official,” and added the next day that “if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it.”
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people → reserve → it
Trump announced he would nominate Guilfoyle to be the U.S. ambassador to Greece in December 2024, just before the start of his second term and amid reports of her split with Trump Jr. She was sworn in in September 2025, becoming the first woman in the role.
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She → announce → role
The 57-year-old Guilfoyle was a former prosecutor in the San Francisco and Los Angeles District Attorney’s Offices and was appointed Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco in 2000.
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Guilfoyle → appoint → 2000
She gained fame as a co-host of the Fox News’ conservative political talk show The Five, which she joined in 2011 and left in 2018.
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she → gain → 2018
Besides Guilfoyle’s legal and media work, she also helped raise funds for Trump’s presidential campaign in 2020.
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she → help → 2020
Guilfoyle was also a witness to the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, and met with the House committee investigating the insurrection in 2022.
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Guilfoyle → lead → 2022
From 2001 to 2006, Guilfoyle was married to Gavin Newsom, then a San Francisco supervisor and later mayor and now California’s governor who’s widely seen as a Democratic presidential contender.
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who → marry → contender
What has been reported about Guilfoyle?
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On Sept. 25, the Journal published a report on Guilfoyle promoting the Greek construction firm Aktor Group and having the company’s lobbyist, Christos Marafatsos, attend diplomatic meetings across Balkan states.
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lobbyist → publish → states
Guilfoyle reportedly encouraged governments from Bulgaria to Albania to work with Aktor Group.
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Guilfoyle → encourage → Group
The Sept. 25 report also detailed Guilfoyle’s alleged behavior with Greek government officials.
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report → detail → officials
According to the Journal report, during a March dinner, Guilfoyle told attendees, including the country’s energy minister, that the U.S. could influence political changes in other countries, which the minister balked at.
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minister → accord → which
Per the Journal, Guilfoyle’s lawyer disputed how the dinner unfolded.
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dinner → dispute → Journal
The Greek government also denied the threat, adding: “Such a thing would never be tolerated.”
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thing → deny → threat
Marafatsos’s lawyer also contested the Journal’s reporting.
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lawyer → contest → reporting
Lawyers for Aktor Group denied allegations that Guilfoyle acted improperly in promoting its business interests.
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Guilfoyle → deny → interests
Then, on Oct. 7, the Journal reported, citing Guilfoyle’s text messages ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing in July 2025, that she asked businessman and Trump donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to clear her American Express credit card debt in exchange for access to the Trump Administration.
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she → report → Administration
Deters, who did not pay Guilfoyle, told the paper that he had transactions with Guilfoyle dating back to 2020.
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he → pay → 2020
The Journal reported that Deters promised Guilfoyle as much $1 million if she succeeded in helping him connect with the Trump Administration, and that she reportedly offered to use her links as Trump Jr.’s former fiancée.
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she → report → fiancée
Guilfoyle also reportedly asked Deters to stop creating a paper trail of their dealings.
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Guilfoyle → ask → dealings
Jesse Binnall, Guilfoyle’s lawyer, told the Journal that the ambassador disputes the messages’ authenticity.
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ambassador → tell → authenticity
He also said that Guilfoyle was paid for events before her nomination and that the ambassador “was owed a balance for traveling to and supporting these patriotic events.”
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ambassador → say → events
Three days later, the Journal published another report, this time on how Guilfoyle flaunted luxury trips financed by several businessmen, through an audio recording that the paper reviewed.
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paper → publish → that
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