Kimberly Guilfoyle Net Worth 2026: How Much Does Kimberly Guilfoyle Make?

Net Worth at a Glance

Who Is Kimberly Guilfoyle?

Kimberly Guilfoyle is a former prosecutor who became a cable news host, then a political fundraiser, then a diplomat. She joined Fox News in 2006, first hosting the weekend show The Lineup, and became a co-host of The Five — one of the network’s most-watched programs — in 2011. She signed a long-term contract extension in 2017 and left the network in July 2018.

After Fox, she moved into Republican politics, serving as national chair of the Trump Victory finance committee for the 2020 campaign. She later hosted a show on the Rumble platform. Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to Greece in December 2024, she was confirmed by the Senate on September 18, 2025, by a 51–47 vote, sworn in on September 29, and presented her credentials in Athens on November 4, 2025 — the first woman to hold the post.

Resignation as Ambassador

On October 13, 2026, the White House asked Guilfoyle to step down, and she resigned after just over a year in Athens. The request followed Wall Street Journal reporting that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a roughly $100,000 American Express bill in return for access to administration officials, and that she had threatened Greece’s energy minister. The Journal also quoted a businessman who said he had paid her about $300,000 over several years. Guilfoyle called the allegations false and said she would defend her name; her lawyers dispute the reporting, and no charges have been filed. The State Department’s inspector general was reportedly looking at the claims, though it is unclear whether a formal investigation has begun.

For a net worth profile, the practical point is narrower: a government salary that was never a wealth-builder has ended, and the allegations are unproven, so their financial consequences, if any, are unknown.

How Kimberly Guilfoyle Makes Money

Her wealth was built in three phases: a long cable news career, several years of political fundraising and media work, and a series of profitable property deals. A 2025 federal financial disclosure — filed for her ambassador nomination — put rare hard numbers on parts of the picture.

Television Career

Twelve years at Fox News were her biggest income era. She joined in 2006 and spent seven of those years co-hosting The Five, a top-rated cable program. Trackers routinely claim she earned around $2 million a year at her peak — but that figure appears on gossip-style sites with no named source, and neither Fox nor Guilfoyle ever confirmed it. The safe conclusion is that a dozen years at a leading cable network paid very well; the $2 million is a plausible estimate, not a fact.

Campaign and Political Work

After leaving Fox, Guilfoyle became national finance chair of the Trump Victory committee — the person in charge of raising big-donor money for the 2020 campaign. In April 2020, HuffPost reported she was being paid $180,000 a year through Parscale Strategy, the private company of campaign manager Brad Parscale. She later confirmed under oath that she was paid through Parscale’s company for her entire time on the campaign. That is a solid, named-source number.

The ambassadorship paid a government salary — modest next to her television and fundraising income, and never a wealth-builder. It ended with her resignation in October 2026.

Podcasting and Media

Her 2025 financial disclosure reported about $769,000 in income from podcasting through KGT Productions, the vehicle for The Kimberly Guilfoyle Show and related digital work on Rumble; across all business and media sources the filing showed more than $1.7 million. That is one of the few income figures in her entire financial history backed by a formal filing rather than a tracker estimate. It shows where her earning power sat in the mid-2020s: direct-to-audience media, not cable television.

Business Ventures

The same disclosure listed two business interests — a medspa and a newer vodka company — each valued between $1 million and $5 million. Federal disclosures use wide bands, so the exact value of each is unknown; anyone stating a precise number is guessing. An earlier venture, a vodka and champagne brand called American Dream launched in 2022, reportedly sought $2 million from investors in 2024 and was later dissolved — it produced no documented profit.

She also published an advice book, Making the Case: How to Be Your Own Best Advocate, in 2015. No advance or sales figures were ever reported; book income of this kind is typically modest next to television pay.

Real Estate

Property is where her biggest confirmed gains sit. In 2019, she and Donald Trump Jr. bought a waterfront estate in Bridgehampton, New York, for $4.4 million. They sold it in March 2021 for $8.14 million — nearly double, with the gain shared between the couple.

In March 2021 the couple bought a six-bedroom waterfront mansion in Jupiter, Florida, for $9.7 million. After their engagement ended in 2024, Trump Jr. bought out her share: a Palm Beach County deed shows the deal closed on July 25, 2026, with the deed recorded on August 3. He paid her $7.6 million and took over the remaining mortgage of close to $5 million. That $7.6 million is the largest single documented cash payment in her financial history.

She also bought a Manhattan apartment at the Beresford on Central Park West for $3.4 million in 2015 and listed it for $4.999 million in October 2020.

Highest-Earning Years

Expenses and Lifestyle

The disclosure gives a partial view of the other side of the ledger. It listed a mortgage of $1–5 million, a boat loan of $100,000–$250,000 and a credit line of $250,000–$500,000 — real debts against real assets. Beyond that, little about her spending is documented in credible sources, and this article will not fill the gap with lifestyle speculation.

One structural point is worth noting: unlike television personalities who spend heavily to maintain a public image, Guilfoyle’s recent years show a pattern of converting assets into cash — the Hamptons sale, the Jupiter buyout — rather than accumulating trophy properties. Whether that reflects strategy or circumstance is not public, so no conclusion is drawn here.

Net Worth Over the Years

Celebrity Net Worth’s $12 million, updated on October 13, 2026 with the disclosure in hand, is the better-grounded estimate, and the disclosure itself is the best guide to the spread: its asset bands add up to somewhere between $4 million and $18.3 million. Higher claims, such as $25 million on thinner tracker sites, rest on little evidence, and some predate the filing. When one estimate is built on a federal filing and the other is not, the filing wins.

Kimberly Guilfoyle vs Peers

The comparison is instructive. Carlson’s $30 million shows what a longer prime-time cable run plus independent media can build. Pirro’s $14 million — backed by her own 2025 disclosure at over $11 million — is the closest peer: similar Fox-to-government path, similar number. Duffy and Hegseth, both of whom moved from Fox to government roles, sit lower. Every figure here is an estimate, and the disclosure-backed ones carry more weight.

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Last updated: October 16, 2026.