4 days ago
Rudy Giuliani sells NY home for $7.62m
Rudy Giuliani is finally bidding adieu to his stately Upper East Side co-op — and New York altogether.
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 New York Post reports.
The former Hizzoner, 81, parted with the three-bedroom spread at 45 E. 66th Street for US $4.95 million (AUD $7.62m), lawyer Gary Rosen, Giuliani's representative in the sale, confirmed. The buyer remains unnamed.
Once touted at US $6.5 million (AUD $10m) 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 US $5.2 million (AUD $8m).
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.
The property was nearly seized by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won a US $146 million (AUD $225m) 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.'
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 US $2.5 million (AUD $3.85m) in July, records show.
'He got the apartment, and she got some Hamptons property,' Rosen said.
Records show Giuliani originally paid US $4.8 million (AUD $7.39m) for the apartment in 2002 — the same year he finalised 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.
