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The MAGA donor who accused U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle of pressuring him to wire her $100,000 to pay off her American Express bill said he will be taking legal action against her.
“I’m going to be suing those lawyers, that law firm, and Kimberly Guilfoyle,” Eric Deters said in an interview with CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Monday. “It’s going to be fun.”
Deters accused Guilfoyle’s legal team of making false claims about him following The Wall Street Journal’s explosive report exposing her pricey request. Guilfoyle allegedly offered to help him reach senior Trump administration officials in exchange.
“They first said that the text messages were fake — defamation,” he said. “Then they said I was a known blackmailer. I’ve never blackmailed anybody in my life.”
Guilfoyle — the ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the former fiancee of President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — and her attorneys have since denied that claim, maintaining that she was seeking to collect roughly $150,000 in unpaid fees for speaking engagements and consulting work.
Deters, a longtime supporter of Trump, told the Journal that he paid Guilfoyle $300,000 over several years to speak at Freedom Fest, a conservative Kentucky-based event he launched in 2020 in opposition to COVID-19 mandates. He also described their relationship as a “quid pro quo.”
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