In Manhattan, Giuliani’s penthouse apartment on East 66th Street, on the Upper East Side, went on the market in July. That same month, in a court hearing involving Smartmatic, a voting machines company suing Giuliani and Fox News for defamation, a lawyer for Giuliani said the former mayor was “close to broke”.
“There are a lot of bills that he’s not paying,” the lawyer added. “From a $57,000 phone bill to significantly more. I think that this is very humbling for Mr Giuliani.”
The lawyer, Adam Katz, did not comment to the Times for its report on the apartment sale.
Nor did Serena Boardman, the “broker to the fallen stars” who has sold properties owned by notorious figures including the fraudster Bernie Madoff and who is now listing Casa Giuliani as a “splendid residence” within a “monumentally exuberant edifice … boast[ing] bright, high-floor outlooks and an abundance of sunshine, high ceilings, and beautiful hardwood floors”.
But Judith Giuliani, the ex-mayor’s third ex-wife, did speak to the Times.
Describing how the pair bought the apartment for $4.77m shortly after he left office as mayor, she said: “It was home for us. He was my husband, and he loved coming home. It was a place where he went for … respite.”
Saying “Rudy had prostate cancer, when we first met, which we also lived through in that apartment”, Judith Giuliani remembered how he loved the wood-paneled library, “where he could smoke cigars and relax and watch his Yankee games”.
But she also said he had now tarnished her memories of the apartment, “gobsmacking” her by filming a pro-Trump podcast in the library, then seeing the whole abode searched by the FBI, in connection with his work in Ukraine.