Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News host who became a high-profile figure in Donald Trump‘s orbit, resigned as U.S. ambassador to Greece following a bombshell Wall Street Journal report over alleged ethical misconduct.

Guilfoyle confirmed her exit in a post on X, shortly after the new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, told reporters that the administration had asked her to resign.

“While my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end,” Guilfoyle wrote.

She also called the ethics allegations “false,” and wrote that she intended to “vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity. I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional. I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service.”

The Journal reported last week on the contents of message exchanges between Guilfoyle and Eric Deters, a Trump donor. Deters provided text messages to the media, including one where she asked him to wire $100,000 directly to American Express to pay off a bill. Deters was seeking Guilfoyle’s help in accessing administration officials.

Trump told reporters that Guilfoyle “went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn’t like what we were reading.”

Guilfoyle is the former fiance of Donald Trump Jr., but the engagement ended before Trump started his second term.

“She wasn’t a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago,” the president told reporters.

In 2020, Guilfoyle led the fundraising push to draw in bundlers to the Trump campaign, and even had a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention that year. She had previously had a well-established TV career, serving as co-host of Fox News’ The Five. She also is the former wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

The White House’s demand for her resignation dominated the headlines coming out of the first press briefing held by Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia. Appearing before reporters for the first time in the crowded briefing room, Zacharia spoke and answered questions for 14 minutes before ending the session. She told reporters that Trump would answer questions later, which he did as he set out on a three-day campaign swing.

The only individual ever actually charged in the 1996 fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur was sentenced today to 40 years to life in prison.

Convicted of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon on August 31, Duane “Keff D” Davis was in court in Las Vegas Tuesday to learn his fate from Judge Carli Kierny.

“You don’t get to take a man from his family,” the judge told Davis in announcing his decades behind bars. Acknowledging how long it has taken for justice to be served in the death of the hip hop icon, she added: “You don’t get to take his very life, his whole future, from him …especially when that man is Tupac Shakur.”

Even with his bragging of involvement in the Poetic Justice star’s murder in his own memoir, on TV and elsewhere over the years, Davis has insisted since his 2023 arrest that he was not guilty. In fact, the ex-gang leader has said he wasn’t even in Sin City that September night over 30 years ago.

As he did when found guilty earlier this year, Davis said “I’m appealing this case for sure.”

In the aftermath of a Mike Tyson fight at Vegas’ MGM Grand, and at the height of the West Coast/East Coast rap beef, Shakur was shot by two rounds in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh, while in a car. Death Row Records boss Suge Knight was in the black BMW with Shakur when that mysterious a white Cadillac appeared and gun fire began. Knight lived, but the son of a Black Panther activist Afeni Shakur died at in the hospital six days later.

Like the subsequent death of Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace in March 1997 what happened to Shakur and who was responsible for his demise remained an open case with flare ups of media interest and theories.

The arrest and trial this year of Davis seemed to have ended a lot of that speculation.

Though Davis earlier in the hearing disputed not being allowed time already served due to an incident with another inmate, he was silent when Judge Kierny delivered his sentence

Before that, Tupac’s sister Sekyiwa Shakur addressed the court Tuesday on the personal and cultural loss resulting from the ‘California Love’ rapper’s death. Through Shakur’s remarks, Davis was seen rolling his eyes and making other reactions to her words. The Shakur sister asked Judge Kierny to give Davis the maximum time possible behind bars. It was a request reiterated in the Nevada courtroom by Shakur’s stepbrother Maurice “Mopreme” Shakur too.

Already a legend by the time of his death and a movie star to boot, Shakur has been the posthumous subject of the likes of USA Network’s 2018 series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Biggie Smalls, the 2017 doc Who Shot Biggie and Tupac?, the 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me from Summit, Morgan Creek, Program Pictures and Codeblack Films over the years. Like the endless music stream of remixes and unreleased tracks, there was also Nick Broomfield’s 2002 feature-length documentary Biggie & Tupac, FX’s Emmy-nominated series Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, which premiered in 2023, and the Oscar-nominated 2003 film Tupac: Resurrection.

EXCLUSIVE: Elsinore and La Bola Negra were two of the standout films to collect awards at the just-concluded 34th edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Audiences who attended 205 screenings of the fest’s 140-plus features and shorts from October 2 to 11 selected La Bola Negra as Best Narrative Feature. The film, which is directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, is Spain’s official nominee for the Best International Feature Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. It emerged from the Toronto Film Festival with heat after winning the audience award, often an Oscar bellwether.

Another hopeful with a presence at the Hamptons is Elsinore, which made its East Coast premiere at the event. Directed by Simon Stone, the film starring Andrew Scott won the international people’s choice award at Toronto, along with prizes at other festivals in recent weeks.

Naza, which has drawn packed screenings and ovations but also protests and controversy for its documentary portrait of Israeli military attacks on Palestinian communities, also collected an award. The film, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, received the Victor Rabinowitz & Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice. The film recognizes a film that exemplifies the values of peace, equality, global justice and civil liberties.

Burgundy, directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, captured HIFF’s documentary audience award.

La Bola Negra was described in a statement by HIFF Narrative Competition jury members Cara Cusumano, Jeremy O. Harris, and David Rooney as a “triptych of queer desire, queer memory and queer resistance weaves together an epic story using revisionist history and builds to an emotional climax that rips to the core.”

The narrative jury also gave a Special Mention to The Guest, which is directed by Mads Mengel.

Best Documentary Feature honors went to If Pigeons Turned to Gold. Documentary Competition Jury members Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Mark Obenhaus, and Sky Sitney called it “a bold, deeply personal story of the filmmaker’s own family struggles with addiction. It is told with provocative rawness and inventiveness.”

Other HIFF honors included the Junior Jury Award, from a panel from East Hampton High School, given to Mouse; the Artemis Rising Foundation Raise the Vibration Award for Social Impact, to The Drug in Our Pocket and A Song for the Snow Lion; the Peter Macgregor-Scott Memorial Award, to Laser-Gato; the Sherzum Award, for films tackling LGBTQ+ people, issues and concerns, to What Will I Become? and Welcome to Paris; the Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for Films of Conflict & Resolution to The Choice; the Suffolk County Next Exposure Grant to Barbizon; and the Zelda Penzel “Giving Voice to the Voiceless” Award, to Wild Inside.

Ben’Imana and The Drug in Our Pocket won the documentary and narrative categories, respectively, of the New York Women in Film & Television’s awards for excellence.