Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as US Ambassador to Greece After White House Request

Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as United States ambassador to Greece on Tuesday after the White House asked her to leave the post. White House press secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed the request during her first briefing. Guilfoyle posted on social media that her time in the role might be coming to an end while affirming her continued loyalty to President Trump. She denied the allegations against her and said she would defend her name and reputation.

Reports from the Wall Street Journal and other outlets detailed several claims. One involved Guilfoyle asking a Trump donor, Eric Deters, to pay a roughly $100,000 credit card bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing in 2025. In return, according to the accounts, she offered help securing access to senior administration officials. Additional claims included accepting improper gifts, promoting the interests of a particular Greek construction and energy company, allowing a lobbyist into private diplomatic meetings, and making statements about using American influence against the Greek government. Guilfoyle’s representatives have disputed the characterisation of the credit-card matter, stating it related to payment for a speaking engagement.

President Trump told reporters that Guilfoyle had been doing a good job in Greece but that the administration did not like what it was reading. The State Department’s Inspector General’s Office had been looking into aspects of her conduct, according to earlier reporting. Zacharia described Guilfoyle as a wonderful asset to the team and wished her well. The White House confirmed it had received her formal resignation.

Guilfoyle, previously a television commentator and the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., was confirmed as ambassador in 2025. Her tenure in Athens coincided with continued US interest in energy routes and regional stability in the eastern Mediterranean. The allegations centre on conduct both before and during her time in the post. The speed of the resignation, coming within hours of the public request, ends the immediate operational role while leaving the underlying claims unresolved in public.

The episode occurs against the backdrop of a midterm election year in the United States and ongoing diplomatic traffic in the region. It removes a high-profile political appointee from a post that normally involves routine engagement with Greek officials on defence cooperation, migration, and energy. No successor has been named. In the interim, the embassy will be run by the deputy chief of mission under standard procedures.

Guilfoyle’s public statement emphasised her decades of public service and rejected the accusations as false. The Wall Street Journal’s reporting relied in part on text messages and accounts from people familiar with the events. Deters has described the request for payment as tied to promised access. The competing accounts have not been tested in any formal proceeding that has been made public.

For the administration the resignation closes one source of negative coverage while the broader set of claims remains open. For Greece the change arrives without advance notice and interrupts whatever working relationships Guilfoyle had established. The practical effect in Athens is the temporary absence of a Senate-confirmed ambassador at a moment when US-Greek defence and energy discussions continue. How the allegations are addressed after her departure will depend on any further Inspector General findings or other official reviews.