Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to hand out the keys to his Manhattan penthouse to the Georgia election workers he defamed, a judge has ruled.
A federal judge on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s former attorney Giuliani has to give all his valuable possessions to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
Freeman and Moss successfully argued in court that Giuliani’s targeting of them because of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election being stolen led to death threats that made them fear for their lives.
Giuliani must turn over his Manhattan apartment in seven days.
Judge Lewis Liman also ordered the former New York City mayor to turn over a collection of several watches, a signed Joe DiMaggio jersey and a 1980 Mercedes once owned by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall, among other luxury items.
Freeman and Moss are also supposed to receive about $2 million in legal fees, which Giuliani has said the Trump campaign still owes him.
Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in December, days after the former election workers won their defamation case.
During their trial, Moss and her mother tearfully described becoming the target of a false conspiracy theory pushed by Giuliani and other Republicans as they tried to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
‘Money will never solve all my problems,’ Freeman told reporters outside Washington’s federal courthouse after the verdict.
‘I can never move back into the house that I call home. I will always have to be careful about where I go and who I choose to share my name with. I miss my home. I miss my neighbors and I miss my name.’