Kimberly Guilfoyle
Announced as Trump’s nominee for Ambassador to Greece
Kimberly Guilfoyle is a former Fox personality who is engaged to Donald Trump, Jr. (though there have been reports that the engagement has been cancelled). The right-wing group Turning Point Action paid her $60,000 for a 3-minute introduction of Trump Jr. at the Ellipse rally immediately preceding the attack on the Capitol. She called on the crowd to “Have the courage to do the right thing! Fight!” In her January 6th Select Committee testimony, Guilfoyle claimed she did not solicit funds for speaking, but texts between her and Caroline Wren show that Guilfoyle was adamant she be paid for introducing her fiance. She also reportedly pushed for far-right speakers to take the stage.
Guilfoyle also bragged in texts about raising $3 million for the Jan. 6 events from Publix heiress Julie Fancelli. Guilfoyle built a relationship with Fancelli through her role as national chair of the Trump Victory finance committee, one of Trump’s 2020 reelection fundraising arms. Fancelli solicited money for the PAC from her friends and gave over $500,000 herself.
The January 6th committee questioned Guilfoyle for more than 9 hours. Notably, Guilfoyle was in Georgia in November 2020 where she attended a meeting with Cleta Mitchell, who was aiding Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Guilfoyle also traveled to Georgia for a January 4 Senate runoff rally where she and then-President Trump spread false claims about the election.
Guilfoyle was a host on Fox. HuffPost reported that she may have been pushed out of her position for alleged impropriety, including allegedly displaying pornography and lewd pictures of male genitalia to work colleagues. One young woman, Guilfoyle’s assistant and direct report who drafted a forty-two page complaint against Guilfoyle for alleged sexual harassment, received a multimillion dollar out-of-court settlement. According to HuffPost reporting, sources say that the draft complaint alleged that, among other complaints, Guilfoyle displayed herself naked to the victim, spoke in detail about her own sex life, demanded a massage of her bare thighs, encouraged the victim to critique Guilfoyle’s naked body, required sleepovers, and more. Other HuffPost sources claim Guilfoyle tried to silence the victim with hush money before the complaint was filed. Guilfoyle also allegedly contributed to Fox’s culture of a sexually hostile work environment, including pressuring Fox employees to back the network’s sexual serial harasser Roger Ailes, according to HuffPost sources.
After Guilfoyle left Fox in July 2018, she joined the Trump reelection efforts as the vice-chair of the America First Action super PAC, before leading the fundraising for “Trump Victory.” In 2020, Guilfoyle reportedly made donors uncomfortable with “sexually suggestive” comments, joking about her sex life, and allegedly offering to give a lap dance to the donor who contributed the most at one event. Under Guilfoyle, Trump fundraising was reportedly in “disarray,” with staffers leaving, inexperienced hires, and accusations of irresponsible spending.
She also took in $15,000 per month in secret payments from the Trump campaign in 2020, in addition to her formal payments for fundraising for the campaign.
Guilfoyle crisscrossed the country speaking in support of his campaign, particularly making claims about how he would support women. During the 2020 RNC, she gave a speech endorsing Trump that was notable and criticized for its screaming nature.
Guilfoyle is an attorney who was an assistant district attorney in San Francisco and a prosecuting attorney in Los Angeles. She was also briefly married to Gavin Newsom, who is now the Governor of California. Before dating Trump, Jr., she was also briefly married to the heir to a luxury furniture fortune. During the 2020 campaign, her name was floated to replace Ronna McDaniel post-election as the Chair of the Republican National Committee. Lara Trump, the spouse of Trump’s son, Eric Trump, got the nod for that post in 2024.