NEW YORK — The two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani sued him Friday, seeking to seize his assets, including cash, jewelry and his Upper East Side apartment, and to place him under guardianship to seize his Palm Beach apartment.
The move by the two Georgia women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, comes after a judge denied Giuliani’s bankruptcy filing, allowing the women, two of his largest creditors, to seize his assets.
Freeman and Moss won a defamation lawsuit last year against the former New York City mayor for falsely accusing them of fraud in the 2020 election.
If their bid to seize his assets and place him under conservatorship is successful, it would be the latest in a series of painful losses for Giuliani. In addition to losing the defamation case, he was indicted in Arizona in April in the state’s voter fraud case and was disbarred in New York in July.
In a court filing, attorneys for Freeman and Moss wrote that the seizure of assets and the implementation of the conservatorship were necessary because “Mr. Giuliani has proven time and again that he will never voluntarily comply with court orders, much less voluntarily comply with plaintiffs’ judgment.”
“At every step, Mr. Giuliani has chosen evasion, obstruction and outright defiance. That strategy has reached its end here.”
A spokesman for Giuliani, Ted Goodman, lamented that “the legal system has been weaponized against Mayor Giuliani and so many others for strictly partisan political purposes.”
“The appeal of the objectively unfair $148 million verdict has not even been heard, yet the opposing side continues to take steps to intimidate and harass Mayor Rudy Giuliani,” Goodman said.
