Rudy Giuliani will get back his $5 million Upper East Side high-rise, vintage Mercedes, Yankees memorabilia and other prized possessions as part of a stunning deal reached Thursday with two Georgia election workers he defamed.
Negotiations in the long-winded case ratcheted up on Monday, a day after President-elect Trump posted “SAVE RUDY!!!” on Truth Social sending a flurry of donations to Giuliani’s fundraiser.
“Negotiations over the last 72 hours have been very extensive, going past midnight on most nights,” Giuliani’s lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, told reporters outside court.
In the days following Trump’s public show of support, Giuliani’s online defense fund raised $169,000 — a far cry, however, from the $148 million he owed to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two workers he was found liable of defaming.
Cammarata refused to answer when asked whether anyone had stepped up to help Giuliani pay the settlement sum.
“I’m not going to answer that question, it’s irrelevant,” he claimed.
The deal allows Giuliani, 80, to hang onto all of his property in exchange for an undisclosed amount of “compensation,” the women said in a statement released by their lawyers.
“The past four years have been a living nightmare,” the statement said.
“We have reached an agreement and we can now move forward with our lives.”
The deal also includes a “promise” by Giuliani not to defame the two women in the future, the statement said.
The surprise settlement was announced just hours after the former New York City mayor was set to testify at a trial that threatened to also cost him his $3.5 million Florida condo and treasured Yankees World Series rings to satisfy a whopping $148 million debt he owed the election workers for falsely claiming they tried to steal the 2020 election from Trump.
Giuliani was a no-show in Manhattan federal court Thursday morning, where he was set to testify at a mini-trial over whether he’d be allowed to hang onto his Palm Beach digs and Yankees rings while he appealed the massive Washington, DC, verdict.
Instead, the disbarred former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Trump’s former personal lawyer posted a video on X of his Pomeranian relaxing at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort.
“Vinny loves hanging out at Mar-a-Lago, but he’s ready to spend a lot more time in Washington, D.C. over the course of the next four years in support of his favorite President—Donald J. Trump!” Giuliani wrote alongside the puppy video.
What exact compensation the women will get in exchange for ending the case remained a mystery Thursday afternoon.
Giuliani filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of the massive verdict against him, but has repeatedly been evasive about his assets.
Once the mystery compensation sum is paid, the deal would end “all litigation currently pending between and among the Parties,” including the DC case that Giuliani was appealing, lawyers for the election workers said.
Giuliani released a written statement Thursday that included somewhat of an apology to the election workers, who testified about mobs of Trump supporters threatening them outside their home after the former mayor’s false statements.
“No one deserves to be subjected to threats, harassment, or intimidation,” the statement reads.
“This litigation has taken its toll on all parties. This whole episode was unfortunate. I and the Plaintiffs have agreed not to ever talk about each other in any defamatory manner, and I urge others to do the same.”
Giuliani’s son Andrew, who had been prepared to testify that the workers were not entitled to the three World Series rings, which the Yankees gave Rudy after their 1996, 1999 and 2000 championships, because they were a “gift” to him, said outside court that the deal lets him keep the prized jewelry.
“I really am truly proud of my father,” the younger Giuliani told reporters.
“He’s an American hero, an American icon.”
Giuliani was ordered in October to give up his 10th-floor Madison Ave. condo, his 1980 Mercedes once owned by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall, a dozen high-end watches, family heirlooms and Yankees memorabilia like a jersey signed by famed Bronx Bomber Joe DiMaggio.
He’d been slowly turning over the property to third-party creditors as the election workers moved to collect the judgment, but had been accused of dragging his feet and blowing through court deadlines.
The last-minute deal comes after Giuliani was found in contempt of court in recent weeks in DC for continuing to defame the election workers, and in Manhattan for blowing through court deadlines and failing to turn over key information.
It was not immediately clear how the settlement would impact what penalties he may face in the contempt actions, or whether he would face any punishment at all for breaking the court’s rules.
