2026年10月8日 美国东部时间下午6:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
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商人埃里克·德特斯表示，他“毫不怀疑这是权钱交易”，他声称，现任美国驻希腊大使、小唐纳德·特朗普前未婚妻的金伯利·吉爾福伊，曾要求他转账10万美元用于偿还她的美国运通账单，以此作为交换，帮她在参议院确认听证会前打通特朗普政府的关系。
在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，德特斯称吉爾福伊应该“丢掉她的大使职位”，因为她被指控的这种行为，此前《华尔街日报》公布了两人去年7月的短信记录。
“这就是权钱交易，”德特斯周四对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻白宫记者魏佳·江说道。
德特斯表示，他从未给过她这笔钱。
“不幸的是，对金伯利·吉爾福伊来说，在那个时候，我拿不出10万美元闲钱给她，否则我真的会蠢到去做这件事。”
德特斯说，他编造了一个“借口”，称妻子不会同意这么做。
据知情人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，白宫官员已经得知吉爾福伊和德特斯之间的短信是真实的。他们表示，一些特朗普助手对吉爾福伊的行为表示不满。
《华尔街日报》本周率先报道称，吉爾福伊在成为美国大使的国会听证会前几天联系了德特斯，称她需要10万美元来偿还美国运通的信用卡债务，且这笔钱不能留下公开痕迹。
据提供给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的短信截图显示，吉爾福伊在7月3日给德特斯写道：“你把钱转到美国运通账户，就不会留下任何痕迹，只会显示这笔还款。”“亲爱的，我已经正式获得提名了，请你今天帮我办好这件事，”她在信息末尾加了一个祈祷双手的表情符号。她的确认听证会于7月9日举行。
商人埃里克·德特斯所称的金伯利·吉爾福伊2025年7月3日发送给他的短信（距其美国驻希腊大使确认听证会数日），由埃里克·德特斯提供
她还通过PDF文档向他发送了“美国运通付款说明”。
与特朗普总统的合影（无日期），埃里克·德特斯与总统同框，由埃里克·德特斯提供
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已审核了这些短信，这些短信是德特斯提供的292页文件的一部分，其中包含数十页针对特朗普阵营人士的不满陈述、与吉爾福伊等人的通信记录、德特斯与吉爾福伊、特朗普总统、埃里克·特朗普以及小唐纳德·特朗普的合影，以及德特斯所著书籍的长篇节选。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系了国务院、白宫以及吉爾福伊的发言人。
德特斯是肯塔基州的退休律师和商人，长期支持特朗普，2021年因从事未经授权的法律执业行为被俄亥俄州最高法院制裁。他还曾竞选肯塔基州州长和众议员托马斯·马西的美国众议院席位，均未成功。
多年来，德特斯一直试图吸引媒体关注和政治支持，以推动引渡骨科脊柱外科医生阿布巴卡尔·杜拉尼医生。美国政府认为，杜拉尼在因医疗欺诈指控等待审判期间逃离了该国。他被指控向医疗保险、医疗补助和私人保险公司虚报数百万美元的不必要脊柱手术费用，这些手术可能对患者造成伤害。如今，德特斯表示，他感到被冒犯，因为他从未获得特朗普阵营有影响力人士对其推动引渡杜拉尼的支持。
“我给苏西·瓦尔斯、小唐和金伯利·吉爾福伊发了一封邮件，我说，‘你们有周一下午5点之前的时间来帮我处理杜拉尼的受害者事宜，’”他说。“他们没有回复。我还告诉他们，‘如果你们不帮忙，我就会联系媒体，寻求媒体的帮助，因为你们不伸出援手。’所以我给了他们最后一次机会，但他们无视了我。”
在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻审核的短信中，德特斯称自己也代表了数百名杜拉尼的前患者，他可能认为可以通过引渡杜拉尼获利。他写信给小唐纳德·特朗普和吉爾福伊的播客制作人德鲁·林奇，提议：“如果小唐或你们圈子里的人有兴趣听听关于如何用少量资金在杜拉尼事件中赚大钱的方案，可以联系我。”
已不再执业的德特斯曾有望在成功起诉杜拉尼后获得经济收益。
2025年特朗普就职前不久，也就是吉爾福伊和小唐纳德·特朗普解除婚约后不久，特朗普宣布计划提名吉爾福伊为美国驻希腊大使。但德特斯表示，自她与小唐纳德·特朗普的关系结束后，她的影响力已经减弱。
“毫无疑问，她当时愿意为我做任何事，”德特斯说。“问题是，她已经被特朗普阵营排挤在外了。”
德特斯声称，吉爾福伊知道索要这笔付款有问题。
“她知道这不对劲，因为她一直在对我发火，”德特斯说。“我的意思是，我太天真了，还把这些东西写下来发给她。她很生气。她想让我用Signal软件交流。我当时不知道Signal是什么。”
2025年6月下旬，她发短信说：“埃里克，我真的希望你不要再把这些东西书面记录下来了。这真的很危险，对你和我都没有好处，你完全可以直接用Signal给我打电话。”当时德特斯刚发给她一份备忘录，抱怨她没有兑现之前答应他的事情，包括帮他预约塔克·卡尔森的播客节目。
埃里克·德特斯所称的金伯利·吉爾福伊发送给他的这条短信
“我当时慷慨地提出，如果能帮我上塔克的节目，等杜拉尼案和解后，我会给你100万美元，”他写道。他还抱怨说，自己已经为时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪准备了一份“简明摘要”，但“我没有收到任何具体回应”。
德特斯还寻求与时任美国国税局局长比利·朗会面，解决一项税务问题，他还希望吉爾福伊能把自己写的一首歌的歌词寄给基德·罗克。
德特斯在备忘录中写道：“我不是天真的傻瓜，我需要看到成果。没有成果，就没必要我付钱。”
他随后又通过短信催促她：“截至目前，我敢打赌你没有给威尔斯（塔克·卡尔森的制片人）、邦迪和朗发过任何邮件，也没打过任何电话。”
吉爾福伊称他的指控“完全是虚假的”，并附上了一封信的PDF作为证据，信中她祝贺朗获得确认，并请他关注德特斯的税务问题。
德特斯声称，他过去曾向吉爾福伊和特朗普家族成员支付过款项。
“我总共给了她30万美元，”他说。“小唐两次出场费20万美元。埃里克·特朗普10万美元，特朗普的政治行动委员会12.5万美元，还有10万美元用于和特朗普一起参加肯塔基德比。所以我在特朗普阵营花了很多钱，”他补充说，他从未欠过吉爾福伊或特朗普身边其他人的钱。
根据他分享给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的文件，他称自己总共向吉爾福伊支付了30万美元的出场费。他还表示，他承诺向吉爾福伊和林奇支付的额外款项是作为他们咨询服务的报酬。
特朗普政府目前的回应
本周早些时候，吉爾福伊在希腊迎接了国务卿马可·卢比奥的专机，卢比奥在希腊斥责记者询问此事。
“你们总觉得只要有消息源告诉你们某件事，你们报道出来，那就是真理，”他说。“那不是真理，对我来说也不是。我们做事不是这样的。”
卢比奥还拒绝置评，称这篇报道“才刚发布几个小时”，并告诉记者“我们不会在新闻发布会上、在外国的停机坪上处理这类事情”。卢比奥离开希腊时，吉爾福伊就在场，但站在一旁。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻周四就一名政府官员要求他人偿还债务是否恰当一事询问了副总统J·D·万斯。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻高级白宫记者詹妮弗·雅各布斯问道：“你对一名美国政府官员——在这个案例中是美国大使——要求某人偿还债务，以换取接触其他政府官员的机会一事，有何回应？”
“就这个假设情况而言，显然我不喜欢这样，但你知道，我不太确定你说的是谁，也不知道全部细节，”万斯回应道。
“金伯利·吉爾福伊和我完全没有私人关系，一点都没有，”他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
但德特斯现在决心分享自己的故事。他说，他想让人们关注杜拉尼医生的受害者。他还希望吉爾福伊离开美国驻希腊大使的岗位。
“我不是好惹的，”德特斯说。“我会对金伯利·吉爾福伊进行庭外证词询问。”
Kimberly Guilfoyle associate says when she asked him for $100K, it was “quid pro quo”
2026-10-08 6:40 PM EDT / CBS News
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Businessman Eric Deters said he has “no doubt it was pay to play,” claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of Guilfoyle’s Senate confirmation hearing.
In an interview with CBS News, Deters said Guilfoyle should “lose her ambassadorship” over her alleged behavior, after texts between the two of them from last July were published in the Wall Street Journal.
“It was quid pro quo,” Deters told CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang Thursday.
Deters said he never gave her the money.
“Unfortunately for Kimberly Guilfoyle, at that time, at that moment in time, I didn’t have $100,000 to spare to give to Kimberly Guilfoyle, or I actually would have been a dumbass enough to do it.”
Deters said he made up an “excuse” that his wife wouldn’t go along with it.
White House officials were told that the text messages between Guilfoyle and Deters were authentic, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Some Trump aides expressed displeasure about Guilfoyle’s actions, they said.
The Wall Street Journal first reported this week that Guilfoyle allegedly reached out to Deters days before her congressional hearing to become a U.S. ambassador, saying she needed $100,000 to pay off her American Express credit debt in a way that wouldn’t be publicly visible.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that’s all that will show,” Guilfoyle wrote to Deters on July 3, according to screen shots of texts provided to CBS News. “I have been officially announced honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” she wrote, punctuating the message with a prayer-hands emoji. Her confirmation hearing took place on July 9.
Text alleged by businessman Eric Deters to have been sent to him from Kimberly Guilfoyle on July 3, 2025, days before her confirmation hearing to be U.S. ambassador to Greece Provided by Eric Deters
She sent him “American Express Instructions” in a PDF document.
Eric Deters with President Trump in undated photo Provided by Eric Deters
CBS News has reviewed the texts, which were provided by Deters as part of a 292-page file that included dozens of pages of grievances against Trump world figures, communications with Guilfoyle and others, photos of Deters with Guilfoyle, President Trump, Eric Trump and Trump Jr., and a lengthy excerpt of a book Deters has written.
CBS News has reached out to spokespeople for the State Department and the White House, as well as Guilfoyle.
Deters, a longtime Trump supporter, is a retired lawyer and businessman from Kentucky who was sanctioned by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2021 for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law. He has also run unsuccessfully for Kentucky governor and for Rep. Thomas Massie’s U.S. House seat.
For years, Deters has been trying to attract media attention and political support for a push to extradite orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Abubakar Durrani. The government believes Durrani fled the country while he was awaiting trial for healthcare fraud charges. He was accused of billing Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies millions of dollars for unnecessary spinal surgeries that were potentially harmful to patients. Today, Deters said he feels slighted that he never received support for his push to have Durrani extradited to the U.S. from influential Trump world figures.
“I sent Susie Wiles, Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle an email, and I told them, I said, ‘You got until 5 o’clock on Monday to help me out with the Durrani victims,’” he said. “They didn’t respond. And I told them, ‘If you don’t, I’m going to go to the media and try to get the media’s help because you’re not helping.’ So I gave them one last shot, and they ignored me.”
In the text messages reviewed by CBS News, Deters, who said he also represents hundreds of Durrani’s former patients, may have believed he could benefit from Durrani’s extradition to the U.S. He wrote to Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle’s podcast producer, Drew Lynch, and suggested, “If anyone in Don Jr or your world has an interest in listening to a pitch on how lots of money could be made for a little money in this Durrani matter let me know.”
Deters, who no longer practices law, once stood to gain financially if he were able to successfully sue Durrani.
Just before he took office in 2025 and soon after Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. broke off their engagement, Mr. Trump announced he planned to nominate Guilfoyle to be U.S. ambassador to Greece. But Deters said her influence has waned since her relationship with Trump Jr. ended.
“There was no question that she would do anything for me,” Deters said. “The problem was, she was on the outs of the Trump world.”
Deters claimed Guilfoyle knew there was something wrong about asking for the payment.
“She knew there was something wrong about it because she kept getting mad at me,” Deters said. “I mean, I’m naive, I’m putting stuff in writing, sending it to her. She’s getting mad. She wants me to use Signal. I didn’t know what Signal was.”
In late June 2025, she texted, “Eric, I really wish you would stop papering these things. It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on Signal.” Deters had just sent her a memo to complain that she had not delivered on things that he had asked of her, including getting him booked on Tucker Carlson’s podcast.
Eric Deters alleges Kimberly Guilfoyle sent him this text message
“I generously offered you $1 million dollars when Durrani settles if you got me on Tucker,” he wrote. He also complained that he had prepared a “concise summary” for then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, but “I have not received nothing concrete.”
Deters also sought a meeting with then-IRS Commissioner Billy Long about a tax issue, and he wanted Guilfoyle to send the lyrics to a song he had written to Kid Rock.
Deters said in the memo, “I am not naive or a sucker. I need results. No results. No need for me to pay.”
He prodded her over text soon afterward: “As of this moment, I bet there have been no emails AND phone calls by you to Wells [Tucker Carlson’s producer], Bondi, Long.”
Guilfoyle said his accusation was “completely false” and sent as proof the PDF of a letter in which she congratulated Long on his confirmation and asked him to give his attention to Deters’ tax issue.
Deters claimed he has paid Guilfoyle and members of the Trump family in the past.
“I paid her a total of $300,000,” he said. “Don, Jr. $200,000 for two appearances. Eric Trump for $100,000, $125,000 for President Trump’s PAC, $100,000 to go to Kentucky Derby with Trump. So, I paid a lot of money to Trump World,” he said, adding that he never owed money to Guilfoyle or anyone else around Mr. Trump.
According to the documents he shared with CBS News, he says he paid Guilfoyle a total of $300,000 for appearance fees. And he said his promise of further payments to Guilfoyle and Lynch was to be for their services as consultants.
The Trump administration’s response so far
In Greece, where Guilfoyle greeted his plane earlier this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio chastised reporters for asking about the matter.
“You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel,” he said. “It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things.”
Rubio also declined to comment because the story had only “literally posted a few hours ago,” telling reporters that “we don’t conduct these things in a press conference, on a tarmac, in a foreign country.” As Rubio departed Greece, Guilfoyle was present, but off to the side.
CBS News on Thursday asked Vice President JD Vance about the propriety of a government official asking someone to pay off their debt.
CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs asked: “Do you have any reaction to a U.S. government official, in this case a U.S. ambassador, asking someone to pay off debt in exchange to access to other government officials?”
“With that hypothetical, obviously I don’t love that, but I, you know, I don’t know exactly who you’re talking about. I don’t know the full details,” Vance responded.
“Kimberly Guilfoyle and I have absolutely zero personal relationship, nada,” he told CBS News.
But Deters is now determined to share his story. He said he wants to draw attention to Dr. Durrani’s victims. And he wants Guilfoyle out of her post as U.S. ambassador.
“I’m a tough hombre,” Deters said. “I’m going to get to take Kimberly Guilfoyle’s deposition.”