Kimberly Guilfoyle Biography
Kimberly Guilfoyle is an American journalist who also served as an adviser to Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Age
Guilfoyle is 53 years old as of 2022. She was born Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle on 9 March 1969 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Height
Guilfoyle stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches (1.7 m).
Kimberly Guilfoyle Family
Guilfoyle was born to an Irish father and a Puerto Rican mother. She was brought up in a Catholic household. She grew raised in San Francisco’s Mission District and Westlake, Daly City. Mercedes Guilfoyle, Guilfoyle’s mother, was a special education teacher. Guilfoyle was 11 when she died of leukemia. Anthony “Tony” Guilfoyle, her father, was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States when he was 20 years old.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Husband
Guilfoyle married Gavin Newsom, a San Francisco city supervisor at the time, in 2001. In 2003, Newsom was elected Mayor of San Francisco. She used the name Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom when married to Newsom. The pair was featured in the September 2004 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, when they were photographed at the Getty Villa and dubbed the “New Kennedys” in the title. Guilfoyle and Newsom filed for divorce in January 2005, claiming the strains of a bicoastal marriage. On February 28, 2006, their divorce was finalized. Guilfoyle married furniture heir Eric Villency on May 27, 2006, in Barbados.
On October 4, 2006, Guilfoyle gave birth to their son, Ronan Anthony. Guilfoyle and Villency announced their separation in June 2009, and their divorce was formalized later that year. Vanessa Trump confirmed that Guilfoyle was dating her estranged husband, Donald Trump Jr., in June 2018, three months after filing for divorce. In 2018, the Trumps’ divorce was finalized.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Education
Guilfoyle attended Mercy High School in San Francisco and the University of California, Davis, before earning her law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1994. She interned at the San Francisco district attorney’s office and modeled for Macy’s and a bridal magazine while in law school. She went on to Trinity College Dublin in Ireland to further her education. Guilfoyle published studies on international children’s rights and European Economic Community law while at the university.
Kimberly Guilfoyle House
Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. bought a $4.4 million home in The Hamptons in mid-2019, which they sold for $8.14 million in March 2021. Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. bought a $9.7 million house in Jupiter, Florida, in March 2021. Guilfoyle and Trump got engaged on December 31, 2020, but the news didn’t make the rounds until January 2022.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Trump Administration and Campaign
Guilfoyle was reportedly being considered as President Donald Trump’s press secretary in December 2016. Sean Spicer was seen as the front-runner for the job and was finally chosen. She confirmed she was in contact with the White House regarding the role after Spicer’s resignation on May 15, 2017. Her contract with Fox was extended a month later.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Books
Guilfoyle published Making the Case: How to Be Your Own Best Speak in 2015, a semi-autobiographical and instructive book about her experiences growing up, working as a prosecutor, and encouraging individuals to always advocate for themselves.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Law
Guilfoyle taught at a public school district after graduating from law school and briefly served as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but she was sacked in 1996 after Terence Hallinan was elected district attorney and fired 14 of the city’s prosecutors. Guilfoyle then worked as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles for four years, prosecuting adult and juvenile crimes involving narcotics, domestic violence, kidnapping, robbery, arson, sexual assault, and homicide. At the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, she won multiple awards, including Prosecutor of the Month.
Hallinan rehired Guilfoyle in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in 2000, where she worked as an assistant district attorney from 2000 to 2004. During this period, she was co-prosecuting with James Hammer in the 2002 case People v. Noel and Knoller, a second-degree murder trial that drew international notice due to a dog mauling.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Salary
Guilfoyle earns an annual salary of $8 Million.
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Net Worth
Guilfoyle has an estimated net worth of $25 Million.
Kimberly Guilfoyle Career
Guilfoyle played a public defender opposite Ed Asner and Marina Black, Shirley Temple’s niece, in the 2004 film Happily Ever After. At the Tribeca Film Festival, the film was screened. Guilfoyle relocated to New York in January 2004 to anchor the show Both Sides on Court TV and to work as a legal expert on Anderson Cooper 360°.
In February 2006, she joined Fox News as the host of the weekend shows The Lineup. The Lineup was eventually dropped from the schedule. Guilfoyle continued a regular contributor to the network, and in 2011, he was named co-host of The Five. She stayed on the show as a host until 2018.She started presenting and subsequently co-hosting Outnumbered in 2014, and she made a few more appearances up until June 2018. Until the show’s discontinuation in 2017, Guilfoyle also appeared weekly on The O’Reilly Factor’s recurring feature “Is It Legal?” and as a weekly Thursday guest on Brian Kilmeade’s Kilmeade and Friends radio show. Hannity, On the Record, Justice with Judge Jeanine, and Fox and Friends all featured Guilfoyle as a guest host.
Guilfoyle signed a long-term contract agreement with Fox in mid-2017. Guilfoyle abruptly quit Fox News a year later, in July 2018, and went to work for a pro-Donald Trump super PAC. According to HuffPost, the network was in the middle of a year-long sexual harassment investigation into Guilfoyle at the time of her departure. Guilfoyle had been given an ultimatum by network officials: quit by the end of July or face termination. The New Yorker later confirmed rumors that Guilfoyle was compelled to quit rather than leaving on his own volition.
Following Guilfoyle’s departure, Fox News and an assistant who had accused Guilfoyle of sexual harassment reached an out-of-court settlement. The settlement amount was not published, although The New Yorker reported that it was at least $4 million. Guilfoyle’s assistant said that Guilfoyle regularly exposed herself to the public, exhibited images of the genitalia of men with whom she had sex, and forced her to stay at Guilfoyle’s apartment. Several of the assistant’s claims were independently corroborated by The New Yorker.