The former mayor of New York is at risk of forfeiting his sole remaining home, a Palm Beach apartment, and World Series rings to election workers he defamed after the 2020 vote.
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s baseless claims that two poll workers in Georgia helped to steal the 2020 election have cost him millions of dollars in assets, including his longtime Manhattan apartment.
Now, a trial in federal court on Thursday will determine if Mr. Giuliani is left with any home at all.
Despite the stakes of the case, Mr. Giuliani was over an hour late to the scheduled start of the trial. The proceeding has not gotten underway and the court did not give a reason for the delay.
Judge Lewis J. Liman of U.S. District Court in Manhattan is expected to rule on whether Mr. Giuliani must surrender his Palm Beach, Fla., condo, which he claims is his primary and only remaining residence, to pay down a multimillion-dollar judgment. The apartment was valued at $3.5 million.
The trial will also decide if Mr. Giuliani can keep three personalized World Series Yankees rings that were commissioned for him during his time as mayor of New York. Mr. Giuliani is expected to take the stand first, followed by his son, Andrew Giuliani, who will claim to be the rightful owner of the rings.
The case stems from a 2021 defamation suit in which a jury awarded two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, $148 million for damage to their reputations, after Mr. Giuliani claimed, repeatedly and without evidence, that they manipulated ballots. The women said they faced death threats and had to go into hiding.
