Trump Jr’s ex ‘pressed donor to pay her $100k credit card bill’ Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly texted congressional candidate that wire transfer ‘won’t show up anywhere’
Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly begged a major MAGA donor to pay her $100,000 American Express bill days before her confirmation hearing to become ambassador to Greece, stunning text messages show. “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” the 57-year-old ex-Fox News host implored former Kentucky congressional candidate Eric Deters in a July 3, 2025, Signal message.
According to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Guilfoyle followed up her plea with a praying-hands emoji and a PDF containing bill payment instructions from American Express. “You could just send it here,” she wrote. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that’s all that will show up. Please.”
The request came just six days before her July 9 confirmation hearing. Deters, a 63-year-old attorney and former co-owner of Snappy Tomato Pizza who mounted unsuccessful runs for Congress and governor, had promised Guilfoyle up to $1 million if she helped get his legal and tax issues in front of top officials in the new Trump administration. As Donald Trump Jr.’s former fiancée, Guilfoyle offered to use her sway, forwarding messages she claimed to have sent to the new IRS chief and updating him on efforts to lobby the Justice Department.
Deters did not make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage. “Your needing $100,000 urgent unfortunately is not going to work. I can’t do this without getting a divorce,” he wrote back. Guilfoyle persisted: “I’ve been calling you for over a week straight. You could be here meeting with Billy Long,” referring to then-IRS Commissioner Billy Long.
Despite promising Deters she would “be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever” if he covered the bill, Deters later told the Journal, “she never came through on anything.” The exchange is part of hundreds of messages, emails and letters reviewed by the Journal that raise new questions about the activities of one of America’s most high-profile ambassadors.
Guilfoyle’s lawyer, Jesse Binnall, said the ambassador disputed the authenticity of the messages but declined to provide specifics. He said she had been paid to speak at events before her nomination and “was owed a balance for traveling to and supporting these patriotic events.” A U.S. Embassy official defended her, stating her career “is guided by deep and abiding values. She was fully vetted by the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations committee and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.”
Guilfoyle was ultimately confirmed 51-47 on Sept. 18 to become U.S. ambassador to Greece. Last week, Democrats on the Senate and House foreign affairs committees urged the State Department to review her conduct after a previous Journal investigation into her promotion of a Greek company. At a press conference in Athens, Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised Guilfoyle as a “strong ambassador” and dismissed reporting on the texts.
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