The defamation lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani now involves some MLB treasures.
Giuliani's son, Andrew Giuliani, filed papers in Manhattan federal court on Oct. 8 fighting for custody of four New York Yankees World Series rings given to the former mayor more than two decades ago. Associated Press. Mayor Giuliani lost his defamation lawsuit last year and was ordered to pay the plaintiffs $148 million, which could be paid using personal property. He listed three of the rings as part of his personal effects in a bankruptcy filing earlier this year.
In his new motion, Andrew Giuliani claims that his father gave him the rings as a gift in May 2018, after the former politician celebrated his 74th birthday.This birthday. The elder Giuliani received rings for every Yankees World Series win while in office: 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. While Andrew received all four as gifts, he claimed his father held one of them temporarily. Day by day.
“He said to me, essentially and in part: 'When I bought these, I told you they would be yours one day, and I want to give them to you now,'” the younger Giuliani said in his filing. “As a child and young adult, I had spent many nights watching Yankees games with my father and bonding over our love for the team, and I was excited to receive the rings.”
To prove they were his, Andrew presented a photograph of himself and his wife holding two of the rings and standing with his father on the night he allegedly gifted them to her. Meanwhile, her father is in the process of appealing the $148 million verdict, claiming that Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss' allegations of 2020 election fraud were not made with “actual malice” as required in defamation lawsuits.
“Mr. “Giuliani has spent years avoiding taking responsibility for his actions,” Freeman and Moss' lawyers said in a statement after Giuliani's unsuccessful attempt to declare bankruptcy. “Now that Mr. Giuliani's bankruptcy case has been dismissed, [the] “Plaintiffs are finally in a position to obtain some compensation by enforcing their verdict.”
A federal judge in Manhattan has set a hearing date for October 17 to determine how to proceed with Freeman and Moss' motion seeking possession of Mayor Giuliani's assets.