NEW YORK CITY – Rudy Giuliani reportedly removed valuables from his Manhattan apartment just weeks before a court-ordered deadline to surrender his belongings, following a significant $148 million defamation judgment. A letter submitted in federal court on Monday revealed that Giuliani and his legal team have been unresponsive regarding the whereabouts of many of the items covered by the court order.
Attorneys for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea Shaye Moss — former Georgia election workers awarded the judgment — expressed outrage in their filing. They highlighted that Giuliani took proactive measures to relocate his property while a restraining notice was in effect, along with a pending motion for turnover concerning the assets.
In the letter addressed to U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman, it was noted that the deadline for Giuliani to surrender his items passed without any assets being transferred.
Last week, Freeman and Moss’s legal team, accompanied by a moving company representative, were allowed to inspect the Upper East Side apartment to assess the logistics for retrieving the property.
Upon their arrival, attorney Aaron Nathan reported that the apartment was substantially empty, indicating that most of its contents had been removed approximately four weeks earlier. He described the remaining items as minimal, consisting mainly of a few rugs, a dining room table, some small pieces of furniture, inexpensive wall art, and minor household items.
The letter also stated that the vast majority of the valuables, including art, sports memorabilia, and high-end furniture, appear to have been taken. Giuliani’s lawyers later mentioned that some items have been relocated to a storage facility in Ronkonkoma, about 50 miles from Manhattan, but did not provide an inventory of what was stored there.