2026-10-13T14:04:10.305Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
深陷争议的美国驻希腊大使金伯莉·吉尔福伊尔已被要求辞职，此前多起有关其涉嫌不当行为的报道浮出水面。这标志着这位与唐纳德·特朗普家族关系密切的MAGA运动知名人物突然遭遇惨败。
新任新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚在周二的首场新闻发布会上证实，白宫“已要求吉尔福伊尔大使辞职”，并补充道：“她一直是团队中非常出色的一员，我们祝她一切顺利。”
随后在记者就此事提问时，特朗普对吉尔福伊尔的评价则没有那么褒扬。
“我不喜欢我看到的那些报道，”他说，并补充称自己尚未亲自与吉尔福伊尔交谈。
吉尔福伊尔在X平台上发布的长篇帖文中承认，她的任职“可能即将结束”，同时驳斥了近期针对她的指控。
“我将积极捍卫我的名誉、声望和正直品格，”她写道。
吉尔福伊尔被解职之前有报道称，她在获得大使任命前曾以提供接触政府官员的机会换取钱财，担任大使期间接受了奢华礼物，并将一家希腊建筑公司的说客带入官方会议。吉尔福伊尔的律师否认了其索要钱财的指控，称有关其出行的报道具有误导性，并补充称她遵守了联邦礼品和申报规定。
据知情人士透露，尽管自报道首次出现以来，政府官员就已公开对吉尔福伊尔被指的不当行为表示不满，但她整个周末都不愿辞职，并一直在争取部分政府官员的支持。消息人士告诉CNN，甚至在指控公开之前，她就开始联系政府内部及周边的盟友，寻求帮助应对即将到来的报道风波。
吉尔福伊尔最初曾向政府内的一些盟友称报道不实，她的律师后来声称，她要求一位特朗普捐赠者为其偿还10万美元的美国运通账单，只是为了追回欠款。吉尔福伊尔坚称该捐赠者在撒谎，称一切都是误会——表示该捐赠者欠她钱，这并非“以权谋私”。消息人士告诉CNN，在周末之前，她曾告诉盟友自己不会辞职，并声称有人告诉她不会被解雇。
但她的努力并未缓解外界对这些报道的不满，尤其是国务卿马可·卢比奥急切希望她离职，据知情人士透露。
“她基本上是在直播中被解雇的，”一位消息人士说。
前特朗普捐赠者埃里克·德特斯称，吉尔福伊尔在参议院确认任命前几天曾发短信给他，要求他转账10万美元偿还美国运通卡欠款。德特斯表示，吉尔福伊尔称如果他这么做，她会在特朗普政府中成为他“同生共死的伙伴”。
“这毫无疑问是一种利益交换，”德特斯上周对CNN记者杰克·塔珀说。
德特斯并未给吉尔福伊尔转账，称当时他没有足够的流动资产。
吉尔福伊尔的律师在给CNN的一份声明中表示，德特斯欠吉尔福伊尔演讲和咨询服务的款项，并称他的说法是虚假的。
“当吉尔福伊尔女士准备从私人生活转向公共服务时，她做了任何专业人士都会做的事，试图结清未收回的账款。要求客户支付已完成工作的款项并非腐败，恰恰相反，”她的律师写道。
在X平台的帖文中，吉尔福伊尔同样称针对她的指控是“虚假的”。
“我将职业生涯奉献给了为正义而战、坚守正确立场、捍卫让美国与众不同的价值观，”她写道。“我不会让虚假的指控定义我数十年的公共服务生涯。”
吉尔福伊尔与总统长子小唐纳德·特朗普订婚四年，不过特朗普周二表示，她“不是我的家人”，只是“很久以前和我儿子约会过”。在她与小唐纳德·特朗普分手后，她被任命为驻希腊大使，并于2025年9月就职。特朗普周一证实，他当时正考虑解雇吉尔福伊尔。
“我们正在考虑——是的。我们对此并不满意，”特朗普在离开白宫时对记者说。
《华尔街日报》首次报道吉尔福伊尔被指“以权谋私”的阴谋时，卢比奥正在前往希腊的途中。吉尔福伊尔曾多次与卢比奥一同出席活动，当时他拒绝就报道置评。《华尔街日报》此前曾报道她涉嫌为一家希腊能源公司推动地区能源交易。
在雅典之行期间，卢比奥称赞吉尔福伊尔是“这里的一位出色大使”，并驳斥了有关其不当行为的报道。
“你们总觉得因为某个消息源告诉你们某件事，你们报道出来就成了真理。这不是真理，对我来说不是。我们做事不是这样的，”卢比奥在登机离开该国前说道，当时吉尔福伊尔就在一旁。
但一位知情人士私下透露，卢比奥对吉尔福伊尔似乎执意要在每场活动中都与他一同露面感到恼火。
这些报道引发了国会山民主党人对调查的质疑和呼吁。众议院外交事务委员会最高民主党议员格雷戈里·米克斯呼吁吉尔福伊尔出席委员会听证会，并表示“必须查明吉尔福伊尔大使是否曾向任何其他来源索要资金”。
在周二吉尔福伊尔被要求辞职的声明发布后，众议院外交事务委员会民主党人指出，“辞职并不能使她免于问责。”
“吉尔福伊尔利用她作为特朗普政府官员的职位牟取暴利，而美国家庭却在为生活成本发愁，”该委员会在X平台上写道。“国会必须进行监督，以了解这一切是如何发生的，并让本届政府承担责任。”
据知情人士透露，在不当行为指控曝光后，国务院监察长办公室正在对吉尔福伊尔展开调查。
“作为政策问题，监察长办公室不会证实、否认或评论调查事宜，”一位监察长发言人说。
目前尚不清楚她被解职后调查将如何推进。据一位熟悉监察长办公室运作的消息人士透露，这可能取决于司法部是否会对其涉嫌的不当行为展开调查。如果司法部不展开调查，国务院监察长办公室可能会继续推进工作，但其调查结果可能需要一年左右的时间才能完成。
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White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as US ambassador to Greece
2026-10-13T14:04:10.305Z / CNN
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the embattled US ambassador to Greece, has been asked to resign from her position after a string of reports about alleged misconduct, marking a sudden and spectacular downfall for a high-profile figure in the MAGA movement with close ties to President Donald Trump’s family.
New press secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed in her first press briefing Tuesday that the White House had “asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” adding, “She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her luck.”
Questioned by reporters later about the move, Trump was less laudatory of Guilfoyle.
“I didn’t like what I read,” he said, adding that he had not spoken with Guilfoyle personally.
In a lengthy post on X, Guilfoyle acknowledged her time “may be coming to an end,” while disputing the recent allegations against her.
“I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity,” she wrote.
Guilfoyle’s ouster comes following reports that she sought money in exchange for providing access to administration figures before she was confirmed to her position, accepted lavish gifts as ambassador and brought a lobbyist for a Greek construction company into official meetings. Lawyers for Guilfoyle have denied the allegations about seeking money and said reports about her travel were misleading, adding that she complied with federal gift and reporting requirements.
While administration officials had signaled public discomfort with Guilfoyle’s alleged misconduct since the reports first emerged, she appeared reluctant to resign throughout the weekend and had been working to rally support among some administration officials, people familiar with the matter said. Even before the allegations first became public, she began reaching out to allies in and around the administration, asking for help navigating the impending story, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Guilfoyle had initially told some allies in the administration that the reporting was inaccurate, and her lawyers later claimed she was seeking to recoup debts when she asked a Trump donor to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill. Guilfoyle insisted that the donor was lying and that it was all a misunderstanding — claiming that the donor owed her money and it was not “pay-for-play.” Going into the weekend, she told allies that she would not resign, and claimed that she had been told she would not be fired, two sources told CNN.
But her efforts did little to tamp down on frustrations about the reports, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in particular was eager to see her gone, the people familiar said.
“She was basically fired on live TV,” one source said.
Eric Deters, a former Trump donor, said Guilfoyle asked him in a text message to wire her $100,000 to pay off an American Express card in the days before her Senate confirmation. She said she would be his “ride or die” in the Trump administration if he did it, Deters said.
“No question it was a quid pro quo,” Deters told CNN’s Jake Tapper last week.
Deters did not wire Guilfoyle the money, saying he didn’t have the liquid assets at the time.
Lawyers for Guilfoyle said in a statement to CNN that Deters owed Guilfoyle money for speeches and consulting work and called his statements false.
“When Ms. Guilfoyle was preparing to leave private life for public service, she did what any professional does and tried to close out her outstanding receivables. Asking a client to pay for work already done is not corruption. It is the opposite of corruption,” her lawyers wrote.
In her post on X, Guilfoyle similarly said the allegations against her were “false.”
“I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional,” she wrote. “I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service.”
Guilfoyle was engaged for four years to the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. – though the president said Tuesday she “wasn’t a member of my family” and only “dated my son a long time ago.” After she and Donald Trump Jr.’s split, she was tapped to serve as ambassador to Greece and took on the role in September 2025. The president confirmed Monday he was considering dismissing Guilfoyle.
“We’re looking at it — yeah. We’re not happy,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House.
Rubio was traveling to Greece when the reports of her alleged “pay for play” scheme were first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Guilfoyle attended multiple events with Rubio, and at the time he refused to comment on the reports. The Journal earlier reported on her alleged promotion of a Greek energy firm for regional energy deals.
During the trip to Athens, Rubio praised Guilfoyle as a “strong ambassador here” and rebuffed questions about the reports of her misconduct.
“You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things,” Rubio said before he boarded his plane to leave the country, with Guilfoyle looking on.
But privately, one source familiar with the matter said, Rubio expressed annoyance that Guilfoyle seemed intent on appearing at every event alongside him.
The reports triggered questions and calls for investigations from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called for Guilfoyle to come before the committee and said that “ it must be determined whether Ambassador Guilfoyle solicited funds from any other source.”
Following Tuesday’s announcement that Guilfoyle had been asked to resign, the House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats noted that “resigning does not shield her from accountability.
“Guilfoyle used her position as a Trump official to get rich, while American families struggle with the cost of living,” the committee wrote on X. “Congress must conduct oversight to understand how this happened and hold the admin accountable.”
The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General is investigating Guilfoyle amid the misconduct allegations, according to source familiar with the effort.
“As a matter of policy, OIG does not confirm, deny, or comment on investigative matters,” an inspector general spokesperson said.
It is unclear what will happen with the investigation following her ouster. According to a source familiar with the workings of inspector general offices, it may depend on whether the Department of Justice opens an investigation into her alleged misconduct. If not, the State Department inspector general may continue its work, but its findings could take a year or so to complete.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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