Rudy Giuliani Sued For Sexual Harassment By Former Staffer

A former employee and one-time client of Rudy Giuliani is suing the former mayor for sexual harassment, according to a court filing from this past week. The woman claims that Giuliani fired her shortly after she rejected his advances, then warned her not to ever speak of their association to anyone ever. Farron Cousins discusses the details of this case.

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According to a court summons filed this past week, Rudy Giuliani is being sued by a former kind of staffer, I guess you would call her slash former client, a woman by the name of Noel Dfi. And this is a particularly interesting story because in the filing, she doesn't just say that Rudy Giuliani sexually harassed her, then fired her after that, told her to never speak of their connection to each other ever again. But she also alleges, well, let me just read it this from The Daily Beast in the summons, Dunphy states that she was retained for business development work and other work by Giuliani and his companies in January of 2019. During that time, the 43 year old alleges Giuliani made frequent racist and anti-Semitic remarks during confused and hostile alcohol laced tirades. She noted that Giuliani's abuse of alcohol was fueled by his divorce and mounting political and legal controversies.

Dunphy also alleges that Giuliani sexually harassed her and demanded sexual favors until she was fired without substantial compensation. In 2021, Giuliani allegedly demanded that Dunphy say nothing about her association with him. Now she is seeking 3.1 million in compensatory damages. Giuliani, through his legal team, of course, has denied all of this, uh, says that the woman was never, never working for Rudy Giuliani. However, Dunphy does state that she was basically hired, if you will, as an off the books employee. So she was getting paid under the table officially on paperwork. She was not an employee according to her. And of course, Giuliani's legal team says she was never an employee. So that's gonna be a problem for Dunphy in this lawsuit. In fact, most of what she is saying here is going to be very difficult for her to prove in court. Now, I'm not taking any side in this.

Obviously it's all alleged, but from a legal standpoint, I don't think Giuliani gets held, uh, uh, you know, responsible for this. Just looking at what we know from the facts, again, the Daily bees put out a massive story about this. It doesn't look like there's going to be anything that dfi, even if it did happen, would be able to actually prove in court. And to be honest, that is one of the biggest problems we have with sexual harassment lawsuits in the United States. In order to successfully sue or prosecute anybody for these things, you have to have concrete evidence. You know, you either have to have the witnesses who were

There and saw it. You have to have it on videotape, you have to have photographs, you have to have something to prove that the individual did it, otherwise it's your word against theirs. Now, DFI does say, and for the record, she's actually representing herself in this matter. She does say that she has evidence that she will release at trial. So if she does have this concrete evidence that can back up her claims, then yes, she has a very good chance of winning this. But it's going to depend on what this evidence is. So it's an uphill battle, you know, if, if it happened, I, I hope that she gets, you know, compensated for this. If it didn't, Rudy Giuliani should, of course, not have to face any problems. Again, it's just a very difficult situation. You wanna give her the benefit of the doubt, uh, but the court system doesn't operate that way.

The court system will need hard evidence. She says she has it. We'll have to wait and see. Uh, honestly, we'll have to wait and see if this thing even does end up going to trial. Giuliani may just try to get this thing dismissed. He may have good, uh, uh, you know, chances of being successful with that. So the evidence that she says she has that would be released in trial. She may have to release it before trial in order to even get to trial. So this is one to just pay attention to. Again, this was filed on Wednesday of this past week. Keep an eye on it. Um, we'll update, I guess as it goes on. But again, sexual harassment claims are, are very hard to prove in court if you do not have the evidence. So we'll have to wait and see what she has that the court could look at and say, yep, that's good enough. We're gonna go from there.