A flight on a private jet to Switzerland sits at the heart of a new Wall Street Journal report about Kimberly Guilfoyle, the recently installed U.S. ambassador to Greece.
The Journal published the story Saturday.
According to the paper, Guilfoyle flew to the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January aboard the private plane of Alexandros Exarchou.
Exarchou serves as chief executive of Aktor Group, a Greek construction company.
The flight forms only one piece of the Journal’s account. Reporters also described a conversation at Davos that was recorded, and they reviewed the audio themselves.
Two people who heard the exchange in person also spoke with the newspaper. Together, the witnesses and the recordings form the basis of the report.
Drawing on that material, the Journal reported that Guilfoyle bragged about her ties to two Greek tycoons.
The paper said she described those men as the source of funding for her high-priced travel around the world.
The recordings also capture what the Journal characterized as a pitch to a businessman. Guilfoyle reportedly told him: “You know, I can deliver the world to you. Which you deserve,”
She reportedly made a second promise during another point in the same conversation. According to the report, she said: “I’m going to make you a lot of ******* money,”
The tone of the recordings reportedly shifts elsewhere. The Journal said Guilfoyle raged over her exclusion from an upcoming dinner being held for Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump.
She aimed those remarks at the organizer of the event, the paper reported. Guilfoyle said: “You don’t have the ******* U.S., you know, ambassador to Greece not come. She should be kissing my ******* ***,”
The Journal attaches the word “reportedly” to the statements it attributes to her in the first two quotes. Every one of her remarks comes from the recordings and the accounts of the two people present.
The Davos story arrives while Guilfoyle is already under fire.
A separate Wall Street Journal report alleged that she pressured a Trump donor to wire her $100,000 so she could pay her American Express bill.
That brings the paper’s tally to two stories about the ambassador.
One focuses on her words and her travel at the Swiss gathering, while the other centers on the alleged request for $100,000.
Other outlets have also covered the ambassador. HuffPost ran a piece under the headline “Rubio Skirts Guilfoyle Corruption Question … Right In Front Of Her.”
The Journal’s Davos reporting covers three subjects in total. They are her connections to Greek business figures, the funding of her trips, and her anger over the dinner for Eric Trump.
Guilfoyle holds the ambassadorship to Greece, a diplomatic post she took up only recently. The newspaper’s account places her at the Davos forum in January while she carried that title.
The recordings, as the Journal tells it, put the businessman at the receiving end of her promises. The event organizer, meanwhile, received the force of her complaint about the dinner.
Both Journal stories rest on specific allegations. The first involves a conversation caught on audio and the private jet flight, while the second involves a request made to a donor.
