Rudy Guiliani Ordered to Sell His Assets to Satisfy Defamation Lawsuit

Last year Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss won the $143 million defamation of character lawsuit filed against Donald Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani, after he accused them of rigging the 2020 election in Georgia [click here if you missed that]. 

Now Giuliani has been ordered to liquidate assets, including his New York city penthouse...

From NBC News

A federal judge in New York has ordered former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over his luxury Manhattan apartment and many of his valuables to the two Georgia election workers he defamed.

In a decision released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ordered Giuliani, a longtime ally of and former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, 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 Giuliani'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 liable 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, a signed Reggie Jackson picture 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.

The unpaid legal fee that Liman referenced refers to $2 million that Giuliani says the Trump campaign owes him for his efforts at overturning the 2020 election results.