Rudy Giuliani was ordered to hand over the keys to his Manhattan penthouse to the Georgia election workers he defamed, a judge ruled.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that Donald Trump’s former lawyer Giuliani must hand over all of his valuable possessions to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother and daughter who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
Freeman and Moss successfully argued in court that Giuliani’s targeting of them over Trump’s lies about the theft of the 2020 election led to death threats that left them fearing for their lives.
Giuliani must surrender his three-bedroom Upper East Side home in seven days. He had previously put it on the market as his legal and financial problems mounted.
The apartment is in a landmark building built in 1906 near the iconic Central Park. It features a wood-burning fireplace and a “semi-private elevator staircase,” according to its listing.
Rudy Giuliani was ordered to hand over the keys to his Manhattan penthouse to the Georgia election workers he defamed, a judge ruled.
Giuliani must surrender his Manhattan apartment in seven days
Judge Lewis Liman also ordered the former New York City mayor to hand over a collection of several watches, a T-shirt signed by Joe DiMaggio and a 1980 Mercedes that once belonged to Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall, among other luxury items.
Freeman and Moss are also supposed to receive about $2 million in legal fees, which Giuliani has said the Trump campaign still owes him.
Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in December, days after former election workers won their defamation case.
“In the absence of an order for delivery to a receiver, the plaintiffs would run the unacceptable risk of delay and the insolvency of the defendant,” Judge Liman wrote.
‘The Court finds no reason to impose additional limits on the time or manner of liquidation or processing of any other listed item or interest.’
Freeman and Moss, who are mother and daughter, successfully argued in court that Giuliani’s targeting of them over Trump’s lies about the theft of the 2020 election led to death threats.
The apartment is in a landmark building built in 1906 near the iconic Central Park.
During his trial, Moss and his mother tearfully described being targeted by a false conspiracy theory pushed by Giuliani and other Republicans as they tried to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
“Money will never solve all my problems,” Freeman told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Washington after the verdict.
‘I will never be able to return to the house I call home. I will always have to be careful where I go and who I choose to share my name with. I miss my home. I miss my neighbors and I miss my name.’
Giuliani’s lawyer acknowledged that his client was wrong, but insisted that Giuliani was not entirely responsible for the vitriol the women faced. The defense attempted to place much of the blame on a right-wing website that posted surveillance video of the two women counting votes.
Judge Lewis Liman also ordered the former New York City mayor to surrender a 1980 Mercedes SL500 once owned by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall. The photo shows one of the same model and year.
Giuliani still faces his biggest test yet: fighting criminal charges in the Georgia case that accuses Trump and 18 others of working to subvert the results of the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden, in that state. . Giuliani has pleaded not guilty and characterized the case as politically motivated.
He also pleaded not guilty to nine felony counts in the Arizona case, alleging he spread false allegations of voter fraud there after the 2020 election.
Last month, Giuliani was disbarred in Washington, months after he lost his law license in New York for making false claims about the 2020 election.