Kimberly Guilfoyle apparently had a $100,000 problem.
And just days before her Senate confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece, she turned to a Trump donor for help.
“Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” Guilfoyle allegedly wrote.
The request? A $100,000 payment to American Express.
And now the donor she was asking for the money has exposed the entire relationship.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that it reviewed hundreds of messages, emails and letters exchanged between Guilfoyle and Eric Deters, a Trump donor who had been seeking her help with personal tax and legal problems involving the federal government.
According to the Journal, Deters had promised Guilfoyle as much as $1 million if she could use her connections to help him.
Guilfoyle, the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., told Deters she was working his requests.
She forwarded him messages she had sent to the incoming IRS commissioner.
She told him she was lobbying the Justice Department.
And she tried to get him an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Then, as Guilfoyle’s ambassador confirmation hearing approached, the conversation took a very different turn.
She needed money. A lot of it.
On July 3, 2025 — just six days before her July 9 confirmation hearing — Guilfoyle sent Deters instructions for wiring money to an American Express account.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote, according to messages reviewed by the Journal.
“Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” she wrote, attaching a PDF containing American Express payment instructions.
“You could just send it here,” she added.
Deters didn’t send the money.
He told Guilfoyle that doing so would cost him his marriage.
But he didn’t simply walk away.
He apparently kept the receipts. And now he’s talking.
According to Deters, Guilfoyle had already received $300,000 from him.
He told the Journal that he had paid her for speaking engagements and other work but had not gotten the results he wanted from her efforts on his behalf.
At one point, he apparently made his frustration very clear.
“I have paid you $300,000,” Deters wrote in a memo reviewed by the Journal. “As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”
Guilfoyle’s response? She wanted him to stop creating a paper trail.
“Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,” she wrote, according to the Journal. “It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on [S]ignal.”
Then she apparently became even more concerned after Deters mentioned their financial arrangement to a producer on her podcast.
“It’s unbelievable when we have a private arrangement with you that you would now CC a producer talking about money,” she wrote.
“Do not say we have any arrangement,” she wrote. “What a nightmare you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship.”
That message takes on a very different meaning now.
Because Guilfoyle was preparing for a Senate confirmation hearing while communicating with a donor who wanted her help with federal tax and legal matters — and who she was also asking to send $100,000 directly to pay her American Express bill.
And Deters apparently had plenty to say about the arrangement.
According to the Journal, Guilfoyle told him that if he came up with the Amex money, “I will be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever.”
Deters later told the Journal that she “never came through on anything.”
He said the experience soured him on the Trump administration.
The Journal’s report also reveals just how much access Deters believed Guilfoyle could provide.
He wanted help with an IRS dispute. He wanted the Justice Department to pursue a matter involving a doctor who had fled to Pakistan.
He wanted attention from Trump administration officials. And he wanted Guilfoyle to help him get on Tucker Carlson’s show.
Guilfoyle repeatedly told him she was working on it. But according to Deters, the promised results never materialized.
Now, he’s handed over the messages, and everyone else gets to see it.
