Guilfoyle asked donor to pay $100k credit card bill before confirmation

Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 8 Oct, 17:00 · Archive

Kimberly Guilfoyle, now US Ambassador to Greece, asked a Kentucky businessman to pay her $100,000 American Express bill days before her confirmation hearing.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, now serving as US Ambassador to Greece, asked Kentucky attorney and former congressional candidate Eric Deters to pay her $100,000 American Express bill on 3 July 2025, according to text messages reported by the Wall Street Journal. In the messages sent via Signal, Guilfoyle told Deters: 'You could just send it here. It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that's all that will show. Please.' She added a praying emoji and included payment instructions from American Express.

Deters, 63, declined to pay. He replied: 'Your needing $100,000 urgent unfortunately is not going to work. I can't do this without getting a divorce.' According to the Journal, Deters had previously discussed helping Guilfoyle with legal and tax issues in exchange for her assistance with Trump administration officials. He told the outlet that Guilfoyle had promised him she would 'be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever' if he paid, but 'never came through on anything.'

Guilfoyle appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee six days after the exchange and was confirmed as ambassador 51-47 on 18 September 2025. The Wall Street Journal's reporting cited images of the alleged text messages. Her lawyer has questioned their authenticity.

How it is being reported

• Marco Rubio brushes off questions about Kimberly Guilfoyle pressing donor to pay credit cardUS ambassador to Greece allegedly asked Trump donor to pay $100,000 American Express bill Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, brushed off reporters’ questions about recent reports that Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece and Trump family ally, used her position to advance personal interests. Rubio refused to respond to the latest allegations against Guilfoyle, raised in a Wall Street Journal report , claiming she asked a Trump donor to pay her $100,000 American Express bill in exchange for access to the administration, before her US senate confirmation hearing. Continue…Guardian World · 8 Oct, 17:43
• Kimberly Guilfoyle begged Trump donor to pay $100K AmEx bill ahead of confirmation as Greece ambassador: ‘Honey please’"Honey please I need you to get this done today," Guilfoyle, now Trump's Ambassador to Greece, reportedly wrote.New York Post · 8 Oct, 16:42
• Kimberly Guilfoyle pleaded with major Trump donor to pay her $100G Amex bill: reportWall Street Journal has reported on texts from Donald Trump Jr’s ex to Kentucky businessman Eric Deters, though her lawyer has questioned their authenticityIndependent World · 8 Oct, 13:10

In this story: Kimberly Guilfoyle · Eric Deters · Donald Trump Jr · Billy Long · Greece · Kentucky · Wall Street Journal

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