The Associated Press and CNN, citing unnamed sources, said that a decision on Guilfoyle is expected soon. A senior U.S. official told the AP on Sunday that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are “extremely pissed off” by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct and would likely assess future action after the Monday U.S. holiday.
The State Department’s inspector general is looking into the allegations, the AP and the Journal reported. TIME has reached out to the White House and the State Department for comment, as well as a lawyer for Guilfoyle.
As the reports emerged, Trump did not defend Guilfoyle, who was in a relationship with his eldest son between 2018 and 2024. “I just heard about it—too bad,” the President told reporters on Friday. “I mean, I don’t know. She’s an ambassador. I just heard a little bit about it. I don’t know too much. She was always very nice.”
Here’s what to know.
The 57-year-old Guilfoyle was a former prosecutor in the San Francisco and Los Angeles District Attorney’s Offices and was appointed Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco in 2000. She gained fame as a co-host of the Fox News’ conservative political talk show The Five, which she joined in 2011 and left in 2018.
From 2001 to 2006, Guilfoyle was married to Gavin Newsom, then a San Francisco supervisor and later mayor and now California’s governor who’s widely seen as a Democratic presidential contender.
What has been reported about Guilfoyle?
The Sept. 25 report also detailed Guilfoyle’s alleged behavior with Greek government officials. According to the Journal report, during a March dinner, Guilfoyle told attendees, including the country’s energy minister, that the U.S. could influence political changes in other countries, which the minister balked at.
Then, on Oct. 7, the Journal reported, citing Guilfoyle’s text messages ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing in July 2025, that she asked businessman and Trump donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to clear her American Express credit card debt in exchange for access to the Trump Administration.
Jesse Binnall, Guilfoyle’s lawyer, told the Journal that the ambassador disputes the messages’ authenticity. He also said that Guilfoyle was paid for events before her nomination and that the ambassador “was owed a balance for traveling to and supporting these patriotic events.”
Responding to the Journal’s latest report, a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Athens said that Guilfoyle has “faithfully followed State Department ethics and gift reporting guidelines.”
How are lawmakers reacting?
Some Democrats have called for her removal. In a Sept. 30 letter to Rubio, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D, N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sought answers about the allegations. Meeks said in a statement that the reports about Guilfoyle’s actions were “deeply concerning and suggest potentially corrupt influences on U.S. foreign policy,” adding that if found true, she should be “removed from her position.”
Even some top Republicans are concerned: GOP Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming called the reports about Guilfoyle “very troubling.”
“I’m sure there’s going to be an investigation,” Barrasso told CBS News Sunday. “I know that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have oversight and look into that as well. But I think the public has a right to know what is found, and it is quite a bit of concern.”
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