Man says Kimberly Guilfoyle told him she will do anything he wants if he paid her credit card bill

A Trump donor says U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed him to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill days before her Senate confirmation hearing and offered sweeping access to Trump administration officials in return, telling him she would be his “ride or die” and that he could ask her for favors indefinitely.

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Eric Deters, a Kentucky attorney, former congressional and gubernatorial candidate, and longtime Trump supporter, made the claims after providing messages, emails, and letters to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the exchanges. He later described the request to ABC News and other outlets as “all quid pro quo,” and said Guilfoyle was “ready to sell her soul” for the payment.

According to the Journal’s account of the correspondence, Guilfoyle wrote Deters on Signal on July 3, 2025: “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” attaching a prayer-hands emoji and a PDF with American Express payment instructions. She also wrote, “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that’s all that will show. Please,” and “You could just send it here.”

Deters told interviewers that Guilfoyle promised, in substance, “If you do this for me, I will be your ride and die forever in the Trump Administration” and “You can ask me as many favors as you want, however you want, for the rest of your freaking life.” The Journal reported a related line in which she said she would “be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever.” Deters said he declined. In one reply cited by the Journal, he wrote that her “needing $100,000 urgent unfortunately is not going to work” and “I can’t do this without getting a divorce.” He has also said he simply did not have the money.

The alleged request came as Deters sought help on personal matters, including an IRS dispute over a 2020 deduction and an effort to press for the extradition of an Ohio surgeon who had fled to Pakistan. He had promised Guilfoyle as much as $1 million if she helped get those issues in front of administration officials,

the reports say, and he has said he previously paid her about $300,000 for speaking appearances at events he organized without receiving favors in return. Messages reviewed by the Journal also show Guilfoyle urging him to keep discussions off paper, including a January 2025 note: “What a nightmare you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing.”

Guilfoyle’s attorney, Jesse Binnall, told the Journal she disputed the authenticity of the messages but did not provide specifics. He has also suggested the sum could have been reimbursement for travel or speaking expenses; Deters denies owing her money. The U.S. Embassy in Athens said Guilfoyle’s career “is guided by deep and abiding values,” that she was fully vetted and confirmed by the Senate, and that she “remains committed to representing the American people with dedication and integrity.”

Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host, ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee six days after the July 3 message and was confirmed 51-47 on Sept. 18, 2025. She is now serving as ambassador.

Asked about the reports while in Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declined to treat the account as established, saying a source’s claim “is not the gospel.” Vice President JD Vance said he does not like officials “selling access” but indicated he had no specific knowledge of this case.

Deters, who has known Guilfoyle since about 2020, is a polarizing figure in Kentucky politics. His law license was suspended in 2012, and the Kentucky Supreme Court later cited a “notorious propensity” for filing what it called malicious or frivolous lawsuits when it declined to reinstate him. He lost Republican primaries for governor in 2023 and for Congress in 2024. He has said he heard little from Guilfoyle after refusing the payment and has called her a “grifter.”