California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) suggested his ex-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, became the right-wing figure she is today because she “fell prey” to the Fox News culture.
Newsom was asked about her first marriage during a recent interview on CNN’s “The Ax Files” podcast with David Axelrod.
“She was a different person,” Newsom said of Guilfoyle, to whom he was married from 2001 to 2006. Guilfoyle was working as a prosecutor in San Francisco when they married.
Newsom suggested that Guilfoyle’s ambition and pride influenced how he responded to the environment at Fox News, where he worked from 2006 to 2018.
“She’s smart and she’s fallen prey to, I think, the Fox culture in a profound way,” he said. “He would disagree with that assessment. Perhaps it would suggest that he had found the light.
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When asked if he was invited to Guilfoyle’s wedding to Donald Trump Jr., he joked, “Well, I’m very busy.”
Guilfoyle and Newsom remarried. Newsom has been married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom since 2008; Guilfoyle married businessman Eric Villency in 2006 and divorced in 2009. She got engaged to the son of former President Donald Trump in 2020.
During his 12 years at Fox News, Guilfoyle co-hosted “The Lineup,” “The Five” and “Outnumbered.” She began working for a Trump super PAC in 2018, the same year it was revealed that she had a relationship with Trump Jr. During Trump’s presidency, she served as one of his advisers.
Last year, she was subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack for her role in the insurrection at the United States Capitol. She was among the speakers at the pre-riot rally and was said to be heavily involved in planning the event.
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