Rudy Giuliani says goodbye to NYC with price-slashed $4.95M sale of Upper East Side penthouse
For the two-time NYC mayor and one-time personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, selling his long-troubled penthouse was less of a victory lap and more of a clearance sale.
The former Hizzoner, 81, parted with the three-bedroom spread at 45 E. 66th Street for $4.95 million, attorney Gary Rosen, Giuliani's representative in the sale, confirmed. The buyer remains unnamed.
6 Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has sold his three-bedroom penthouse at 45 E. 66th St. for $4.95 million.
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Crains was the first to report on the sale.
Once touted at $6.5 million in 2023, the more-than-10,000-square-foot top-floor residence in the landmarked Fred Leighton Building saw its price chipped away through multiple relistings, brief withdrawals, and, finally, a March return to market at $5.2 million, The Post reported earlier.
Rosen declined to comment on the final markdown — or the purchaser.
The apartment's many enviable qualities — a wood-paneled library, formal dining room, city views and Yankees memorabilia — were long overshadowed by Giuliani's legal troubles.
6 Giuliani sold the the longtime residence after listing it in March for $5.2 million and cutting the price several times from its original 2023 ask of $6.5 million.
Steven Hirsch
The property was nearly seized by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won a $146 million defamation judgment against Giuliani — after he accused them of ballot tampering.
In testimony, the pair said his unfounded claims 'helped unleash a wave of hatred and threats we never could have imagined.'
6 The more than 10,000-square-foot top-floor unit in the Fred Leighton Building includes a formal dining room, library, and Madison Avenue views.
James Messerschmidt
6 The apartment was once tied to a $146 million defamation judgment in favor of former election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, but a later settlement allowed Giuliani to keep it.
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A judge had ordered the home handed over, along with other valuables — but a confidential settlement earlier this year allowed Giuliani to keep it. Eventually, he decided to offload the home anyway.
Before waving goodbye to the prime Madison Avenue address, Giuliani took full control of the property from his third ex-wife, Judith, paying her $2.5 million in July, records obtained by The Post show.
'He got the apartment, and she got some Hamptons property,' Rosen told Crains.
6 Before the sale, he bought out his third ex-wife, Judith Giuliani, for $2.5 million to take sole ownership, following their divorce agreement that swapped the apartment for Hamptons property.
John Roca
6 Giuliani purchased the home in 2002 for $4.8 million and will now reside full-time in Florida.
John Roca
Records show Giuliani originally paid $4.8 million for the apartment in 2002 — the same year he finalized his second divorce from Donna Hanover.
With the deal done, Rosen said Giuliani will now make Florida his primary address — trading Central Park views for palm trees.
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