A woman who claims she was an informal employee of Rudy Giuliani while he served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney claims in a lawsuit that the former New York City mayor coerced her into having sex and owes her nearly $2 million in wages.
Noelle Dunphy said in the lawsuit that she was Giuliani’s director of business development and public relations adviser from 2019 to 2021. She first publicized her allegations last January, but detailed them in full in a 70-page lawsuit filed Monday. In New York.
Giuliani “vehemently” refuted the allegations through a spokesman.
“Mayor Giuliani’s life of public service speaks for itself and he will pursue all available appeals and counterclaims,” said Giuliani’s communications adviser Ted Goodman.
His lawyer had previously denied that Dunphy had ever worked for Giuliani.
The lawsuit filed Monday describes Giuliani, 78, as a womanizer, drinker and Viagra user who demands that satisfying his sexual demands be “an absolute requirement of his job.” The plaintiff asks for at least 10 million dollars.
Dunphy said in the lawsuit that he made several audio recordings of Giuliani, including some in which he can be heard making sexual comments, demanding sex and making sexist, racist and anti-Semitic statements.
Dunphy’s lawyers have denied The Associated Press’s request to share the recordings, saying they are part of the lawsuit.
Included in the lawsuit are screenshots of suggestive text messages Giuliani allegedly sent.
The lawsuit alleges that Giuliani hired Dunphy in January 2019 and promised to pay him $1 million a year for his consulting work. But he told her that he had to defer paying him until he resolved to divorce him from his third wife, Judith, according to the lawsuit.
Almost immediately, according to the lawsuit, Giuliani began making sexual advances, including kissing her in the backseat of a pickup truck on her first day on the job and demanding that she service him sexually, sometimes while talking on the phone with friends and high-profile clients.
Dunphy says Giuliani often required her to work in a bikini or American flag shorts he had bought for her, and asked her to undress for him during video calls.
Giuliani settled their divorce in December 2019, but Dunphy said all she received from Giuliani were a few $12,000 cash payments to cover living expenses. She still owes him $1,988,000, she says.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they have been sexually abused unless they give their permission, as in Dunphy’s case.
2023-05-16 00:08:00
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