A federal judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over his luxury New York City apartment and many of his valuables to the two Georgia election workers he defamed.
In a decision released Tuesday, US District Judge Lewis Liman ordered Giuliani to transfer personal property “including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys’ fees, and his interest in his Madison Avenue co-op apartment to a receivership” within seven days.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss filed an action to seize the former New York City mayor’s assets in August in an effort to begin collecting on the $146 million in damages they were awarded last year after a judge found Giuliani liability for repeatedly defaming them. Giuliani had falsely accused the pair of election fraud after the 2020 presidential election.
The judge granted the mother and daughter the right to use a receiver to sell off Giuliani’s assets “in order to ensure that the liquidation of the transferred assets is accomplished quickly” while “maximizing the sale value of the unique and intangible items and therefore increasing the “likelihood of satisfaction of the Plaintiffs’ judgment.”
Among the items that are supposed to be turned over are Giuliani’s apartment, which is valued at $5.7 million, his collection of luxury watches, including watches gifted to him by his grandfather and the French president, a signed Joe DiMaggio jersey and a 1980 Mercedes previously owned by actress Lauren Bacall.
Some items not included in the decision are his three New York Yankees World Series rings because his son Andrew Giuliani has claimed that his father gifted the rings to him. The judge said Andrew Giuliani’s claim — and Freeman and Moss’s claim to Giuliani’s Florida condo — would be determined at a later date.
An attorney for the pair, Aaron Nathan of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, praised the judge’s ruling.
“We are proud that our clients will finally begin to receive some of the compensation to which they are entitled for Giuliani’s actions,” Nathan said, adding the “outcome should send a powerful message that there is a price to pay for those who choose to intentionally spread disinformation.”
NBC News reached out to a representative for Giuliani for comment.