Noelle Dunphy also accuses Giuliani of wage theft and “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks” that made her work environment “unbearable.” (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
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Rudy Giuliani, here at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington, November 19, 2020.
UNITED STATES – Donald Trump’s lawyer caught in a legal turmoil. Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is the target of a long civil complaint from a former collaborator who accuses him of having repeatedly harassed and sexually assaulted her while working for the former American president. .
According to this 70-page complaint, Rudy Giuliani would have multiplied the inappropriate remarks and “sexual demands” throughout the period that this collaborator, Noelle Dunphy, worked for him from January 2019 to January 2021.
The complaint, filed Monday, May 15 in New York, does not mention the terms of rape, but describes a scene where he would have forced his collaborator to perform fellatio, during an alcoholic evening, in his apartment in the district of the ‘Upper East Side in Manhattan.
The complainant claims to have kept audio recordings showing that her ex-boss was harassing her. According to her, Rudy Giuliani drank a lot of alcohol and openly took viagra.
She also adds that he demanded sexual favors “while taking phone calls on speakerphone from friends and high-profile clients, including President Trump”.
“An attempt at extortion” according to Rudy Giuliani
According to New York Daily Newsone of the representatives of the former mayor of New York, says he “vehemently and completely denies the allegations contained in the complaint and that he intends to defend himself vigorously against these allegations”. “This is pure harassment and an attempt at extortion”adds this representative who is not named.
Mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, Rudy Giuliani had become very popular for his management of the attacks of September 11, to the point of being called a “America’s Mayor”, which had given him presidential ambitions. He had failed in the 2008 Republican primary. In 2016, he had supported Donald Trump, of whom he had become an adviser. He distinguished himself in the 2020 presidential election as one of the strongest voices who denounced, without proof, an election “rigged”.
Noelle Dunphy, who is suing Rudy Giuliani, 78, also for uncollected remuneration, is claiming ten million dollars in damages.
In January, when Noelle Dunphy had launched a first lawsuit, one of Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers, Robert Costello, had assured that the plaintiff had not “never worked for an entity” related to her client and that she had not been able to find a lawyer because her requests were too outlandish.
According to the complaint, Noelle Dunphy is represented by attorneys.
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