Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's embattled ambassador to Greece, was caught on tape making a sweeping promise to land a seat at an Eric Trump dinner.
Guilfoyle boasted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January that a pair of wealthy Greek businessmen were covering her lavish travel, according to an audio recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and reported Saturday.
The onetime fiancee of Donald Trump Jr. was trying to talk her way into a dinner for Eric Trump hosted by Greek House Davos, which had left her off the guest list, and leaned on an American businessman with an invitation to help get her in.
"You know, I can deliver the world to you. Which you deserve," Guilfoyle told him on the recording. At another point, she promised, "I'm going to make you a lot of f— money."
She was furious over the snub. "You don't have the f— U.S., you know, ambassador to Greece not come. She should be kissing my f— ass," she said of the dinner's organizer.
Guilfoyle landed a seat at the last minute. Irene Vantaraki, who chairs Greek House Davos, told The Journal the ambassador was "gracious and discreet" and ducked out early.
On the recording, Guilfoyle acknowledged she had flown to Davos aboard a private jet with Alexandros Exarchou, who runs the Greek construction firm Aktor Group and whom she called "my people." The Journal has previously reported that she urged governments across the region, from Bulgaria to Albania, to buy billions of dollars' worth of American natural gas through his company.
She also name-dropped shipping magnate Nikolas Tsakos, saying she'd be flying with him to Paris for his wife's fashion show after spending the holidays with him in the Swiss resort town of Gstaad.
"I see Nikos every f— day," she said. "He loves me. Honey, I spent Christmas with him. New Year's. OK? Gstaad. Like, everywhere."
Tsakos, chief executive of Tsakos Energy Navigation, picked up Guilfoyle's tab at Paris's Four Seasons Hotel George V, people familiar with the matter told The Journal. He did not respond to requests for comment.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Athens insisted Guilfoyle "faithfully followed State Department ethics and gift reporting guidelines" and dismissed the allegations as "unsubstantiated."