A US federal judge on Tuesday ordered Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani to hand over his Manhattan apartment, collectible Mercedes-Benz and a number of other treasures to two. Georgia election workers he slandered by falsely claiming they were trying to defraud former President Donald Trump out of the 2020 US presidential election.
According to a report in CNBC, Giuliani will also lose items signed by Yankees baseball legends Joe DiMaggio and Reggie Jackson, a diamond ring and more than two dozen watches.
The 1980 Mercedes was previously owned by famous actress Lauren Bacall, for example, and one of the watches belonged to Giuliani’s grandfather. Another watch was presented to Giuliani by the President of France after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when Giuliani was mayor of New York CityCNBC reported.
Freeman and Moss sued Giuliani for defamation after he repeatedly attacked the two women with false allegations of voter fraud as part of his efforts to overturn Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in election 2020.
In December, a federal jury in Washington, DC ordered the former mayor to pay them more than $148 million in damages and for emotional distress and defamation.
Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition to protect himself from sudden financial ruin, but a federal bankruptcy judge in New York dismissed his case, the report said.
Giuliani has so far not paid any of the nine-figure defamation judgments against him, and he has not obtained a stay that would allow him to delay payment of the massive debt, the court said in its ruling.
The court also allowed the plaintiffs to pursue a debt that Giuliani says he still owes for his work after the 2020 election, totaling about $2 million, that Trump’s 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee have failed to pay.
Giuliani has seven days to turn over those items and more to a receivership controlled by former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, Manhattan federal judge Lewis Liman ruled.
Giuliani repeatedly charged the two women with false allegations of voter fraud as part of his efforts to overturn Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“The profound irony manifested in the defendant’s alleged concern is not lost on the court,” the judge wrote.
“By his own admission, the defendant defamed the plaintiffs by perpetuating lies about them. The defendant’s lies cast unjustified doubt on the integrity of the vote count in Fulton County, Georgia in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 presidential election,” he added.