Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is facing a $10 million sexual harassment and assault case now that he has come out of bankruptcy.
New York Supreme Court Judge Nicholas Moyne has set a July 31 hearing date in a $10 million lawsuit filed by former Giuliani employee Noelle Dunphy. In a court filing on Wednesday, Moyne noted that Judge Sean Lane had dismissed “the bankruptcy case of Rudolph W. Giuliani” after previously placing a stay on Dunphy’s case after Giuliani entered into bankruptcy.
In his latest court order, Moyne listed the stay and ordered that the parties appear remotely for a hearing on July 31. The parties will discuss three of Dunphy’s allegations—sexual harassment, assault and wage theft. Giuliani denies the allegations.
Dunphy alleges that Giuliani regularly sexually harassed her after he hired her in January 2019 to help develop his businesses. She claims he made sexual comments about her body and submitted a transcript of some of her recordings of Giuliani, in which he allegedly made sexual comments about her.
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Newsweek sought email comment from Giuliani’s spokesman on Thursday.
Giuliani declared bankruptcy in December 2023 after a jury awarded $148 million to two Georgia election workers who won a defamation lawsuit against him. As an attorney for President Donald Trump in 2020, Giuliani falsely alleged that mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss committed election fraud while counting ballots in Fulton County.
Newsweek sought email comment from Rudy Giuliani’s spokesman on Thursday.
Giuliani is coming out of bankruptcy to avoid management by a court-appointed trustee who would monitor all of his financial transactions on behalf of creditors.
The Dunphy case is one of several major legal cases that Giuliani is facing. He also faces a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Machines, which accuses him of falsely claiming that its voting machines were rigged in Joe Biden‘s favor during the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion, which filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Giuliani in January 2021, has already settled a similar claim against Fox News for $787.5 million, which means that a Giuliani settlement could be in the hundreds of millions.
In addition to these two lawsuits, Giuliani’s list of bankruptcy creditors includes Citibank, Emerald Dunes Golf Club in West Palm Beach in Florida and a large number of law firms. He still owes $148 million from the Georgia defamation case.
In the final hearing before the bankruptcy court on July 12, Rachel Strickland, a lawyer for Freeman and Moss, told Lane that she was not opposed to Giuliani having his bankruptcy dismissed if it meant that creditors could recover.
However, she said she suspected that Giuliani would try “hustling” his brand of coffee and his podcast and deposit the profits in companies outside his estate to avoid creditors.
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