Kimberly Guilfoyle has been nominated as US ambassador to Greece, President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host now deeply enmeshed in Trump's broader orbit, was married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco. The former prosecutor announced her engagement to Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. in 2022, However, questions have been raised about the couple's current relationship status Tabloid Headlines on Tuesday.
Guilfoyle was a prominent surrogate for Trump in the 2024 campaign.
“For many years, Kimberly has been a close friend and ally,” Trump said in a social media post, praising her “extensive experience and leadership in law, media and politics” as well as her “sharp intellect.”
The position, which requires Senate confirmation, is currently held by Biden appointee George Tsunis.
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She also once worked in the San Francisco district attorney's office with future Vice President Kamala Harris, and they were rumored to have a frosty relationship was the topic of gossip in San Francisco early in her career.
Guilfoyle and Newsom – who they famously posed together on a carpet in a glamorous Harper's Bazaar profile that declared them “the new Kennedys” – divorced in 2006, the same year she joined Fox News.
The former first lady of San Francisco was one of several high-profile appointments Trump announced this week. The new president also nominated Ronald Johnson as ambassador to Mexico, Andrew Ferguson, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, to replace Lina Khan as FTC chairwoman, and Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a billionaire with close ties to California, as ambassador to the Turkey.
Johnson served as US ambassador to El Salvador during Trump's first term. According to his FTC biography, Ferguson previously worked as a senior counsel to outgoing Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and as an adviser to Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Barrack, a longtime Trump ally, was indicted but later acquitted of charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates.