Donald Trump’s former lawyer and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani must hand over control of his Manhattan apartment and a number of valuable properties to two election workers to whom he owes a nearly $150 million defamation judgment, a U.S. judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge Louis Lehman of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan said Giuliani had seven days to place the Madison Avenue apartment and a list of luxury items — including several watches, jewelry, furniture, sports memorabilia and an old Mercedes — into receivership. Which will be controlled by Robbie Freeman and Shay Moss.
Both women are also entitled to legal fees, which Giuliani says are still owed to Trump’s 2020 campaign, totaling about $2 million, the judge ruled.
Control of the Manhattan penthouse will be transferred to Moss and Freeman for purposes of its sale.
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Among the items Giuliani must hand over are a 1980 Mercedes previously owned by Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall; 26 watches, including one given to him by the French president after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when Giuliani was mayor of New York; And a signed Joe DiMaggio baseball jersey.

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A decision on whether to transfer control of an additional condo in Palm Beach, Fla., and a collection of New York Yankees World Series rings into receivership will be determined after an additional hearing at the end of October, Lehman ruled. Giuliani’s son Andrew, who was also named as a defendant in the case, claimed that his father gave him the rings.

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A jury last year awarded $148 million in damages to Moss and Freeman, who sued Giuliani for defamation over lies he spread about them in the wake of the 2020 election.
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Giuliani was one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in pushing baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, and claimed that the two women — who at the time were election workers in Georgia — helped switch ballots favoring Trump to his opponent, Joe Biden, who won. In the elections.
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Moss and Freeman testified at the defamation trial, and before the U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, that Giuliani’s lies about them upended their lives and led to death threats.

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Giuliani filed for bankruptcy shortly after the defamation ruling was issued in December. But the judge dismissed his case in July, citing failure to comply with court orders, failure to disclose his sources of income, and his apparent unwillingness to hire an accountant to review his books.
Moss and Freeman then filed to seize control of Giuliani’s assets in August to obtain the value of the judgment.
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Giuliani, who was once a well-known prosecutor before his run for mayor, was disbarred in New York and had his law license suspended in Washington, D.C., earlier this year over his false claims of election fraud. A review panel in Washington recommended that he also be disbarred for making the allegations without any evidence.
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