For an interview on Greek TV, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s newly appointed Ambassador to Greece, gushed about her two ex-husbands but was strangely silent about the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., her ex-fiance who could have had a hand in her getting this plum diplomatic position.
Guilfoyle sat down with ANT1 to discuss her plans to strengthen relations between Greece and the United States, according to the Daily Beast. But the former San Francisco prosecutor, Fox News host and top Trump campaign fundraiser also took some time to praise her two ex-husbands, one of whom is Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California and one of her boss’s leading antagonists.
Guilfoyle told host Maria Sarafoglou that she has “a very good relationship with Governor Gavin Newsom.” She also said she had a “wonderful relationship” with her second ex-husband Eric Villency, 50, with whom she shares a 19-year-old son, Ronan. About Villency, she said, “We have 20 years of friendship.”
But Guilfoyle said nothing about her ex-fiance, Trump Jr., in the interview, according to the Daily Beast. She and Trump Jr. dated from 2018 through last year. They officially split in December 2024, following Trump’s re-election to the presidency, though reports say that Trump Jr. had “blindsided” Guilfoyle several months earlier by starting a relationship with Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson. News of the split coincided with Trump announcing that he had appointed Guilfoyle to be the ambassador to Greece, likely as a reward for her political loyalty.
Meanwhile, Guilfoyle’s “very good relationship” with Newsom continues to intrigue political observers. She and Newsom were married from 2001 to 2006, while he was mayor of San Francisco and she was a star prosecutor. They divorced after she left the Bay Area to find fame and fortune as a TV pundit, first for Court TV and then for Fox News.
Since arriving in Greece to start her job as ambassador, Guilfoyle also recalled her “fabulous” honeymoon in Greece with Newsom, while speaking with Greek President Konstantinos Tasoulas, according to People. When Tasoulas asked Guilfoyle if she had ever visited Greece prior to her ambassadorship, Guilfoyle said, “I actually covered the Olympic Games in 2004 for ABC News.” She then added with a smile: “I also had a honeymoon here in 2004. Fabulous honeymoon but…”
“Honeymoon was fabulous, but the marriage?” Tasoulas asked. Guilfoyle replied, “We’ll work on getting a new husband.”
Guilfoyle previously claimed that she and Newsom were on good terms in a 2018 interview with the Washington Post, despite the fact that they had migrated to different ends of the political spectrum following their marriage. That year, Guilfoyle also began dating Trump Jr., and she joked to the Post that she once put her new boyfriend on the phone with Newsom so that the two men could talk about hair products; they famously share the same slicked-back hair-do.
But Guilfoyle also has been outspoken about her belief that Newsom and other Democrats in California have turned her home state “into a land of discarded heroin needles in parks, riots in streets and blackouts in homes,” as she said at the 2020 Republican National Convention. In 2023, she also spoke critically of Newsom in an interview with the late Charlie Kirk, saying he had fallen prey to the left, “the radical left,” and no longer cared about small businesses, entrepreneurs or hardworking men and women.” She also said she could never see him being elected president.
More recently, reports in April said that Guilfoyle had been helping Newsom land prominent right-wing figures, including Kirk and Steve Bannon, for interviews on his podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom,” back when Newsom was showing an interest in a political pivot to the center in the wake of Democrats’ loss in the 2024 presidential election.
It appears that Guilfoyle still has a strong regard for her ex-husband, even as he is back to being seen as a star on the left and a strong contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nominatio, following the passage of Proposition 50, his measure to create more Democratic congressional seats in California.