He was once called America’s Mayor. New York’s Rudy Giuliani showed strength and resilience following the Terrorists Attacks on September 11, 2001. Giuliani’s decline has been slow and steady.

But following the firing, indictment, arrest, and incarceration of Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, Giuliani stepped in.

In mid-April 2018, Giuliani joined Trump’s legal team, which dealt with the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Working for Trump accelerated Giuliani’s legal, financial, and personal troubles.

For this episode of Political Woman, I won’t go into all of the current Giuliani civil and criminal investigations.

Here’s a short list.

Giuliani is under investigation for his part in the January 6 insurrection.

He is likely to face charges in Georgia for election Interference.

Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic are suing him for defamation about 2020 election lies. He was featured on Fox News regularly.

He has also been slapped with a defamation suit by Georgia Election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for accusing them of election fraud.

And now there is this.

A $10 million civil case

A former assistant, Noelle Dunphy, alleges that Giuliani coerced her into sex acts and launched into “alcohol-drenched” and racist rants at work.

The lawsuit claims he exposed himself, took Viagra “constantly,” and told Ms. Dunphy that satisfying his sexual demands was a job requirement.

Mr. Giuliani “vehemently” denied the allegations through a spokesperson.

Noelle Dunphy, who says she was hired by Mr. Giuliani’s firm in 2019 when he was working as Mr. Trump’s lawyer, filed the legal case in New York State on Monday, May 15.

According to Dunphy’s current lawsuit against Giuliani, she began working for him in January 2019. She notes that Giuliani was “at the height of his influence” by then, serving as then-President Donald Trump’s lawyer.

The lawsuit contains three allegations.    

Sexual assault

Selling pardons

Nonpayment of wages

Here is what legal experts have to say about each charge.

Sexual assault. “The allegations of forcing her to perform sexual acts against her will could be considered sexual assault under New York law,” according to legal experts.“Sexual assault refers to engaging in non-consensual sexual conduct.”

It also claims Mr. Giuliani “often demanded that she work naked, in a bikini, or short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her” and would visibly touch himself while on video conference calls.

According to the lawsuit, Noelle Dunphy made recordings of conversations with Mr Giuliani, which included sexual comments and demands for sex as well as racist, sexist, and antisemitic remarks.

He was selling pardons. 

“Although such cases can be hard to build if Giuliani participated in a scheme to sell presidential pardons, it could be a crime.”

This allegation has surfaced before.

According to the Lawsuit.

Giuliani asked Dunphy if she knew anyone needing a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split,” the complaint alleges. “He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through ‘the normal channels’ of the Office of the Pardon Attorney because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.”

(Dunphy’s complaint says she has recordings of Giuliani making some of the alleged remarks but has not released them.)

Nonpayment of wages.

Dunphy was hired as Guiliani’s business development director and public relations consultant from 2019 to 2021.

He only paid her  $12,000 out of a promised $2 million. Her salary was supposed to be $1 million a year plus free legal representation.

Dunphy alleges that Giuliani — who was then working as former President Trump’s personal lawyer — said her payment had to be deferred because he did not want his ex-wife Judith, with whom he was going through a divorce, to find out about Dunphy’s employment. Mr. Giuliani refused to pay her a promised $1 million salary.