By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-10-08 15:47:13 | Updated at 2026-10-08 17:29:09
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Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle begged a major MAGA donor to pay her $100,000 credit card bill days before her confirmation hearing to be 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 reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Guilfoyle followed that up with a praying hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from the credit card giant.
“You could just send it here,” she told Deters. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that’s all that will show. Please.”
Deters, 63, had promised Guilfoyle up to $1 million if she helped him get his legal and tax issues in front of top officials in the Trump administration — but he balked at her six-figure request.
“Your needing $100,000 urgent [sic] unfortunately is not going to work,” he reportedly replied. “I can’t do this without getting a divorce.”
Guilfoyle persisted, according to the Journal, telling him: “I’ve been calling you for over a week straight. You could be here meeting with [then-IRS Commissioner] Billy Long.”
Deters ultimately declined to send the money, despite Guilfoyle promising him that if he did, she would “be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever.”
“She never came through on anything,” he groused to the Journal.
Six days later, Guilfoyle appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and she was ultimately confirmed 51-47 on Sept. 18.
Deters reportedly has known Guilfoyle since 2020, when he founded an anti-COVID mandate event called Freedom Fest. The former wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom was paid a total of $300,000 to speak alongside other members of the Trump family at subsequent editions of the festival.
The former Ohio morning radio DJ also donated $125,000 to a pro-Trump PAC in 2022, according to Federal Election Commission records cited by the Journal.
Deters and Guilfoyle became closer after the 2024 election, with the attorney asking Guilfoyle to help secure the extradition of an Ohio doctor who had fled to Pakistan after being charged with defrauding insurers by performing unnecessary surgeries on children. Meanwhile, Deters was also dealing with an IRS investigation into a deduction he had claimed in 2020 from the sale of a stake in his family business.
Throughout their correspondence, Guilfoyle implored Deters to be discreet with details of their arrangement.
“Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on Signal,” she reportedly wrote in one message.
“What a nightmare, you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing,” she added in another blast from January 2025, weeks after her nomination by President Trump.
Guilfoyle’s attorney, Jesse Binnall, told the Journal she disputed the authenticity of the messages but didn’t offer specifics.
Binnall did not respond immediately to requests for comment by The Post.
The American Embassy in Athens did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but an official defended her record, telling the Journal: “Guilfoyle’s career in and out of public service 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. The ambassador remains committed to representing the American people with dedication and integrity.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Greece on an official visit, declined to address the story when asked by reporters on Thursday.
“You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel,” Rubio scolded as Guilfoyle looked on. “It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things.”
