Ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani sued for $10m over sexual harassment
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onald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued for $10 million over claims he instructed an aide to strip bare at work in a two-year marketing campaign of sexual harassment.
Noelle Dunphy, 43, says she was “pressured” into performing intercourse acts on Mr Giuliani throughout telephone calls with mates and shoppers, as a result of it made him “feel like Bill Clinton”.
She has accused the 78-year-old former New York mayor of consuming alcohol “morning, noon, and night”, usually taking Viagra, and bragging that he was “untouchable” as a result of his ties to Mr Trump.
Ms Dunphy claims she recorded “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks”.
And she additionally says Mr Giuliani supplied to promote presidential pardons for $2 million and she or he allegedly overheard him plotting to falsely declare the 2020 election had been “stolen”.
Mr Giuliani denies Ms Dunphy’s allegations, calling the lawsuit “pure harassment and an attempt at extortion”.
According to new courtroom paperwork, Ms Dunphy mentioned she was employed as Mr Giuliani’s government assistant in January 2019, believing it was a “once-in-a-lifetime” job. But her $1 million wage was withheld and she or he was instructed to cover the employment to keep away from being dragged into Mr Giuliani’s divorce battle.
Ms Dunphy says she was left “stunned and shaken” when Mr Giuliani kissed her behind a limo on her first day. Within days of beginning the job, Ms Dunphy says a drunken Mr Giuliani pressured her into oral intercourse at his New York condo, and she or he claims the harassment escalated to fixed calls for for intercourse.
“Giuliani often demanded that she work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her,” her attorneys say.
Ms Dunphy, who left in January 2021, is suing for damages, claiming illegal abuses of energy, sexual assault, and $2 million in alleged unpaid wages.