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Kimberly Guilfoyle
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Guilfoyle in 2020
First Lady of San Francisco
In role
January 8, 2004 – February 28, 2006
MayorGavin Newsom
Preceded byBlanche Vitero
Succeeded byJennifer Siebel
Personal details
Born
Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle

(1969-03-09) March 9, 1969 (age 52)[1]
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2001; div. 2006)​

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(m. 2006; div. 2009)​
Children1
EducationUniversity of California, Davis (BA)
University of San Francisco (JD)

Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle (/ˈɡɪlfɔɪl/ GIL-foyl; born March 9, 1969) is an American television news personality who also served as an advisor to the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.

Guilfoyle studied at University of California, Davis, and the University of San Francisco, and was a prosecuting attorney in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. She served as an assistant district attorney in San Francisco from 2000 to 2004. Guilfoyle married Democratic politician and future California governor Gavin Newsom and was First Lady of San Francisco during Newsom's first two years as mayor of that city. She is a member of the Republican Party, and has been the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. since 2018.

She worked at Fox News from 2006 to 2018 and co-hosted The Five on the network.[2][3] She later joined America First Policies, a pro-Trump super PAC, to campaign for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections.[4][5]

Early life and education

Guilfoyle was born in San Francisco on March 9, 1969, to a Puerto Rican mother and an Irish father. She was raised Catholic.[6] She grew up in the Mission District of San Francisco and in Westlake, Daly City.

Guilfoyle's mother, Mercedes, taught special education. She died of leukemia when Guilfoyle was 11.[7] Her father, Anthony "Tony" Guilfoyle, was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States in 1957 at the age of 20.[8] In 1958, while still an Irish citizen, he was drafted and served for four years in the U.S. Army.[9] After being discharged from the army, Tony Guilfoyle took up work in the construction trades. He later became a real estate investor and, until his death in 2008, a close advisor to Mayor Newsom.[10][11]

Guilfoyle graduated from San Francisco's Mercy High School[12][13] and the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1994. While in law school, she interned at the San Francisco district attorney's office and modeled for Macy's and a bridal magazine.[14]

She later studied at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. While there, Guilfoyle published research in international children's rights and European Economic Community law.[15]

Career

Law

After law school, Guilfoyle taught in a public school district[9] and briefly worked as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but she lost her job in 1996 when Terence Hallinan was elected district attorney and fired 14 of the city's prosecutors.[16]

Guilfoyle then spent four years in Los Angeles as a deputy district attorney, working on adult and juvenile cases, including narcotics, domestic violence, kidnapping, robbery, arson, sexual assault, and homicide cases. She received several awards at the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, including Prosecutor of the Month.[15]

In 2000, Guilfoyle was rehired by Hallinan in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, where she served as an assistant district attorney from 2000 to 2004. During this time she obtained a conviction while co-prosecuting with James Hammer in the 2002 case People v. Noel and Knoller, a second-degree murder trial involving a dog mauling that received international attention.[17][18]

Media and politics

Movie appearance

Guilfoyle appeared in the 2004 film Happily Even After, playing a public defender opposite Ed Asner and Marina Black, Shirley Temple's niece. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.[19]

Television

In January 2004, Guilfoyle moved to New York to host the program Both Sides on Court TV as well as to work as a legal analyst on Anderson Cooper 360°.[20]

She joined Fox News in February 2006 as host of the weekend show The Lineup. The Lineup was eventually canceled. Guilfoyle remained a regular contributor for the network and was later picked up as co-host of The Five in 2011. She remained a host on the show until 2018.[21] In 2014, she began hosting and then co-hosting Outnumbered for nearly fifty episodes, plus a few more appearances up until June, 2018.[22] Guilfoyle also appeared weekly on the recurring segment "Is It Legal?" on The O'Reilly Factor until that show's cancellation in 2017, and as a weekly Thursday guest on Brian Kilmeade's Kilmeade and Friends radio show.[15] Guilfoyle guest-hosted Hannity, On the Record, Justice with Judge Jeanine, and Fox and Friends.[23]

In mid-2017, Guilfoyle signed a long-term contract extension with Fox.[24] A year later, in July 2018, Guilfoyle abruptly left Fox News;[25] she then began working for a pro-Donald Trump super PAC.[26][27] HuffPost reported that, at the time of her departure, the network had been in the midst of a year-long sexual harassment investigation into Guilfoyle. Network officials had given Guilfoyle an ultimatum: resign by the end of July or be fired.[26] The New Yorker subsequently corroborated reports that Guilfoyle had been forced to resign rather than leaving by choice.[28]

After Guilfoyle's departure, Fox News agreed to an out-of-court settlement with an assistant who had accused Guilfoyle of sexual harassment. Terms were not disclosed, but The New Yorker reported that the settlement was at least $4 million.[28] The assistant alleged that Guilfoyle frequently displayed herself naked, showed photographs of the genitalia of men she had sex with, and required her to sleep over at Guilfoyle's apartment.[28] The New Yorker independently verified several of the assistant's allegations.[28]

Writing

In 2015, Guilfoyle released a semi-autobiographical and advice book, titled Making the Case: How to Be Your Own Best Advocate, on her experiences growing up, working as a prosecutor, and encouraging people always to advocate for themselves.[29]

Trump administration and Trump 2020 campaign

Guilfoyle speaking at a campaign rally in Sun City, Arizona, in November 2018

In December 2016, it was reported that Guilfoyle was being considered to serve as press secretary for President Donald Trump. Sean Spicer was considered the front-runner for the position[30] and was ultimately selected. On the May 12, 2017, edition of The Five, co-host Bob Beckel hinted that Guilfoyle turned the job down. However, in an interview with Bay Area News Group on May 15, 2017,[31] Guilfoyle confirmed she was in contact with the White House about the position following Spicer's resignation.[32] "I'm a patriot, and it would be an honor to serve the country", Guilfoyle said. "I think it'd be a fascinating job, it's a challenging job, and you need someone really determined and focused, a great communicator in there with deep knowledge to be able to handle that position." However, on May 19, Guilfoyle said she was under contract with Fox, indicating she turned the White House down. One month later, she extended her contract with Fox.[33]

In 2018, The Washington Post described Guilfoyle as a "conservative cheerleader for President Trump".[34]

Charlie Kirk, Guilfoyle, and Donald Trump Jr., pictured at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 2019

In 2020, Guilfoyle was reported to be the chair of the finance committee of the Trump Victory Committee.[35]

As of early 2020, the Trump campaign was paying Guilfoyle $15,000 per month through the campaign manager's private company, Parscale Strategy. Guilfoyle has been a surrogate on the stump and taken on broad advisory roles.[36][37] In the Trump 2020 campaign, Guilfoyle managed a fund-raising division. This division paid socialite Somers Farkas to raise money.[38] The fundraising division managed by Guilfoyle was in internal turmoil amid departures of experienced staff and accusations of irresponsible spending.[39]

In July 2020, Guilfoyle was diagnosed with COVID-19, but her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., tested negative.[40]

In August 2020, at the Republican National Convention, Guilfoyle gave a speech that was widely described by some observers as unnecessarily loud[41] or unhinged,[42][43] though others in media described it as passionate.[44] She was criticized for describing herself as a first-generation American when her mother was from Puerto Rico and thus an American citizen.[45] In January 2021, Guilfoyle joined President Trump, Donald Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Eric Trump, and others on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. to address the "Save America March". which led to the January 6 Insurrection[46] Guilfoyle also appeared in a video screened at the march by Donald Jr., "break[ing] into the hip-shaking dance she's been showcasing at other recent pro-Trump rallies" and "tell[ing] Trump fans: 'Have the courage to do the right thing! Fight!'".[47]

Personal life

In 2001, Guilfoyle married Gavin Newsom, then a San Francisco city supervisor. Newsom was elected Mayor of San Francisco in 2003. While married to Newsom, she went by the name Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom. The couple appeared in the September 2004 issue of Harper's Bazaar ; the spread had them posed at the Getty Villa and referred to in the title as the "New Kennedys".[48] In January 2005, citing the strain of a bicoastal marriage, Guilfoyle and Newsom jointly filed for divorce.[49] Their divorce was finalized on February 28, 2006.[50]

On May 27, 2006, in Barbados, Guilfoyle married furniture heir Eric Villency.[51] Guilfoyle gave birth to their son, Ronan Anthony, on October 4, 2006.[52] In June 2009, Guilfoyle and Villency announced that they were separating;[53] their divorce was finalized later that year.[54]

In June 2018, Vanessa Trump, who had filed for divorce three months earlier, confirmed that Guilfoyle was dating her husband, Donald Trump Jr.[55] The divorce was finalized at the end of 2018.[56] In mid 2019, Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. jointly purchased a $4.4 million home in The Hamptons.[57] Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle sold their Hamptons home for $8.14 million.[58] In March 2021, Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. jointly purchased a $9.7 million home in Jupiter, Florida.[59]

See also

References

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