Text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal reportedly show that Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., asked a prominent MAGA donor to cover a $100,000 credit card bill just days before her confirmation hearing to become ambassador to Greece.
“Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” the 57-year-old former Fox News host allegedly wrote to Eric Deters in a July 3, 2025, Signal message, according to the Journal.
Guilfoyle followed the request with a praying-hands emoji and attached a PDF containing payment instructions from American Express.
“You could just send it here,” she reportedly 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 to provide Guilfoyle with as much as $1 million if she helped bring his legal and tax matters before senior Trump administration officials. However, he resisted her urgent six-figure request.
“Your needing $100,000 urgent [sic] unfortunately is not going to work,” Deters reportedly replied. “I can’t do this without getting a divorce.”
According to the Journal, Guilfoyle continued pressing him, writing: “I’ve been calling you for over a week straight. You could be here meeting with [then-IRS Commissioner] Billy Long.”
Deters ultimately refused to send the money, despite Guilfoyle’s reported promise that she would “be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever” if he agreed to help.
“She never came through on anything,” Deters later complained to the Journal.
Guilfoyle appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee six days later. The Senate ultimately confirmed her 51-47 on Sept. 18.
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Deters reportedly first met Guilfoyle in 2020, when he launched Freedom Fest, an event opposing COVID-19 mandates. Guilfoyle, 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 later editions of the festival.
Federal Election Commission records cited by the Journal also show that Deters, a former Ohio morning radio DJ, donated $125,000 to a pro-Trump political action committee in 2022.
The relationship between Deters and Guilfoyle reportedly grew closer after the 2024 election. Deters sought Guilfoyle’s help in securing the extradition of an Ohio doctor who fled to Pakistan after being charged with defrauding insurers through unnecessary surgeries on children. At the same time, Deters was facing an IRS investigation over a deduction he claimed in 2020 after selling a stake in his family business.
The messages reportedly show Guilfoyle repeatedly urging Deters to keep the details of their arrangement private.
“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 allegedly wrote in one message.
“What a nightmare, you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing,” she added in another message sent in January 2025, weeks after President Trump nominated her.
Guilfoyle’s attorney, Jesse Binnall, told the Journal that she disputed the authenticity of the messages but did not provide specific details about her denial.
Binnall did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The U.S. Embassy in Athens also did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An official nevertheless defended Guilfoyle’s record to the Journal, saying: “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 declined to comment on the report when questioned by journalists Thursday during an official visit to Greece.
“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.”