Fox News claims they simply updated their digital coverage to reflect the latest reporting on the Ambassador's potential removal.
Insiders say the timing was too perfect to be coincidence, suggesting internal pressure from LaCorte’s viral call-out forced the network’s hand.
LaCorte posted at 3:21 p.m. ET on Oct. 11; FoxNews.com published the Guilfoyle article at 6:55 p.m. ET the same day.
The receipts don't lie: you can't ignore a scandal this big for months and then act surprised when a former exec calls you out. Fox News' silence was deafening until the pressure got too high.
The silence from Fox News Digital regarding Kimberly Guilfoyle’s escalating scandal was so conspicuous that a former executive had to publicly shame the network into breaking its own story. Ken LaCorte, the former SVP of Fox News Digital who ran the site for a decade, took to social media on Sunday, October 11, to label the network’s lack of online coverage as "journalistic malpractice." His post, time-stamped at 3:21 p.m. ET, highlighted a glaring omission: despite Guilfoyle being a former employee and the current U.S. Ambassador to Greece, FoxNews.com had zero reporting on the scandal, with the last mention of her dating back to December 10, 2024, when her nomination was announced. LaCorte’s intervention was not just a casual observation but a detailed indictment of the network's editorial choices. He wrote, "I ran FoxNews.com for a decade, and this pains me to write," before detailing the severity of the allegations against Guilfoyle. He noted that if the reports were true, she faced not only removal from her ambassadorship but also the "distinct possibility of prison." By pointing out that the story had been reported worldwide by every major news outlet, LaCorte framed the network's inaction not as a simple mistake or bias, but as a "conscious choice to ignore a major story." This bold move from a former insider who was "pushed out" in 2016 during a corporate purge added significant weight to the criticism. The response from Fox News was swift, though the timing raised eyebrows across the media landscape. Less than four hours after LaCorte’s post, at 6:55 p.m. ET, FoxNews.com published an article titled "Trump and Rubio weigh firing Kimberly Guilfoyle as misconduct and donor bailout allegations mount." The piece reported that President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were "extremely pissed off" by Guilfoyle’s conduct. The article cited an Associated Press report based on a senior U.S. official, noting that Guilfoyle might soon be fired amid reports she sought a six-figure credit card bailout from a Trump donor in exchange for access to administration officials. LaCorte later shared the link with a dry comment: "Good to see Fox has now gotten around to it …" The scandal itself broke on October 7, when the Wall Street Journal revealed that Guilfoyle had reached out to a Trump donor with an "urgent request" for $100,000 to pay off American Express debt. Crucially, the Journal noted she asked for the payment in a way that "wouldn’t leave a paper trail," prior to her July 2025 Senate confirmation hearing. While the WSJ is housed under the Murdochs’ News Corp, and Fox News is part of Fox Corp, the divergence in coverage was stark. Guilfoyle, who worked at Fox News from 2006 to 2018 and is the ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., has long been a fixture in the network's orbit. Her potential downfall, now finally acknowledged by the network that employed her for over a decade, marks a dramatic turn for a figure who once had the full backing of the Fox machine.
