It’s official: One-time San Francisco prosecutor Kimberly Guilfoyle has a government job again.
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Guilfoyle’s new job as ambassador to Greece. Actually, she was one of 48 Trump nominees for sub-Cabinet positions and ambassadorships to be confirmed in a “nuclear option” rule change, used to bypass a 60-vote threshold for confirming nominees in batches, as NBC News reported.
However Guilfoyle got the job, she expressed “profound” gratitude to Trump and to the U.S. Senate “for their trust and confidence in me.” She said on X: “It is the honor of my life to serve as the first female ambassador of the United States to Greece.”
It could be said that 56-year-old Guilfoyle had to do a lot of maneuvering in life to win this job, where she gets to live in a palatial residence in an upscale district of Athens and maybe enjoy weekends in some of the more scenic and glamorous destinations among Greece’s many islands.
US TV news personality Kimberly Guilfoyle walks off stage after speaking during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Donald Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance for running mate. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Among other things, Guilfoyle had to put aside her usual exaggerated-glamour look for one that’s more demure — dark suit, pussy-bow blouse and glasses — to appear as serious and sober as possible during her Senate confirmation hearing in July.
As is well known, Guilfoyle in 2004 left behind her hometown of San Francisco and the more moderate politics she said she followed when she was married to Gavin Newsom, a future nemesis of Donald Trump. She began to show her conservative leanings after she moved to New York City to become a Fox News anchor. When she began dating Donald Trump Jr. in 2018, she also became fundraiser for his father, the president, and a fierce supporter of his MAGA politics.
In recent years, she also faced allegations that she engaged in sexual misconduct when she worked at Fox News, leaving the Rupert Murdoch-run network to pay out a multimillion-dollar settlement to an assistant avoid trial.
Guilfoyle’s relationship with Trump Jr. fell apart near the end of his father’s 2024 campaign, as news began to surface that the president’s older son, 47, had “blindsided” Guilfoyle by beginning a “dalliance” with Bettina Anderson, a younger blonde Palm Beach socialite who was said to look more the part of a Trump family wife.
By early December, it was reported that Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle had parted ways, shortly before Trump announced that he had appointed her to serve as ambassador to Greece in his new White House term.
A source explained to People magazine that Trump offered Guilfoyle the Greece job because Anderson wanted Guilfoyle “out of the area.” That is, dispatched across the Atlantic. However, Guilfoyle presumably couldn’t head to Greece until after she was confirmed — nearly nine months later. It’s also likely that Trump chose to make Guilfoyle an ambassador as a reward for her loyalty and service to his cause and he probably appreciated that she didn’t make a fuss about breaking up with his son.
Indeed, Guilfoyle was said to have “looked the other way” after Trump Jr. began dating Anderson, the Daily Beast said. Sources close to the Trump family also insisted that Guilfoyle’s split from Trump Jr. was “amicable,” which could explain his son, Donald Trump III, attending her congressional confirmation hearing to provide moral support, the Daily Beast reported.