Ex-Fox colleague Kennedy alleges Guilfoyle shared explicit photos, talked openly about sex

Mixed · 2Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery, a Fox News contributor and former Fox Business host, wrote in a Daily Mail column published Thursday that Kimberly Guilfoyle openly discussed sex and shared sexually explicit images with colleagues while both worked at Fox News. 1 2 Right · 1Kennedy wrote that Guilfoyle showed them and several friends pictures of the Amex black card, front and back, of a man Guilfoyle called "Lex Luthor" and a "lovesick cash cow", each matched with a picture of his private parts, in "at least three sets". 1 Mixed · 2Kennedy also wrote that Guilfoyle talked about sex "so cavalierly that she made Samantha from Sex and the City seem like Greta Thunberg", and claimed Guilfoyle said most people at Fox News, especially the women, were in love with her. 2 1

Left · 1According to the Independent's account of the column, Kennedy also described an evening when Guilfoyle asked them to meet at Guilfoyle's apartment and answered the door in a corset and stockings, and said Guilfoyle demanded a pledge of loyalty to Roger Ailes and his wife when assault allegations against the late network chief surfaced. These details are not in the New York Post's report. 2 Right · 1The New York Post reported that Kennedy said the alleged escapades earned Guilfoyle the nicknames "Seabiscuit" and "USO" inside the network, and described Guilfoyle as both "insanely charming" and a "status-chasing monster" with "unrelenting narcissism". 1 Right · 1Kennedy said they bonded with Guilfoyle over a shared disdain for California Governor Gavin Newsom, Guilfoyle's ex-husband, but became less comfortable as they got to know each other. 1

Right · 1Guilfoyle left Fox News in 2018, reportedly amid a sexual harassment probe; in 2020 the New Yorker reported that Guilfoyle engaged in "graphic sexual talk" and shared lewd images at the network, which Guilfoyle denied, saying "I have never engaged in any workplace misconduct of any kind". 1 Left · 1The Independent adds that the New Yorker reported Fox paid Guilfoyle's former assistant about $4 million after a draft complaint alleging sexual harassment, and that a lawyer for Guilfoyle called any suggestion of misconduct "patently false". 2 Mixed · 2The column follows Guilfoyle's resignation as US ambassador to Greece earlier this week, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfoyle asked former GOP congressional candidate Eric Deters for $100,000 to pay off an American Express card ahead of the confirmation hearing. 1 2

Mixed · 2Guilfoyle said in a farewell statement that the allegations are false and that Guilfoyle intends to "vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity". The Independent reports that Guilfoyle's lawyers dispute the authenticity of the text messages Deters shared, that Deters says he did not give the money, and that Guilfoyle faces a defamation lawsuit from Deters. 1 2 Mixed · 2Guilfoyle and a lawyer had not responded to the Post's request for comment, and the Independent said it had contacted Guilfoyle's attorney; Kennedy's claims are uncorroborated allegations from a single former colleague. 1 2