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Rudy Giuliani lawsuit: Here are the 7 most salacious claims against the former NYC mayor

In a 70-page complaint filed in New York on Monday, Noelle Dunphy alleges that Giuliani, 78, made satisfying his sexual demands “an absolute requirement of her employment.”

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A woman who says she worked for Rudy Giuliani claims that the former New York City mayor and ex-personal lawyer for Donald Trump coerced her into sex and owes her nearly $2 million in unpaid wages.

In a 70-page complaint filed in New York on Monday, Noelle Dunphy alleges that Giuliani, 78, made satisfying his sexual demands “an absolute requirement of her employment” when she worked as a consultant for him from 2019 to 2021 — and has numerous audio recordings to prove it.

Dunphy also claims that Giuliani told her that he and Trump were selling pardons for $2 million each.

In a statement issued through his spokesman, Giuliani “unequivocally” denied the allegations.

“Mayor Rudy Giuliani unequivocally denies the allegations raised by Ms. Dunphy and every news outlet covering this story must include the fact that an ex-partner accused her of being 'an escort that fleeces wealthy men,'" said Ted Goodman, Giuliani's communications adviser. "Mayor Giuliani's lifetime of public service speaks for itself, and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims."

Dunphy is seeking $10 million in damages.

Here are some of her most shocking allegations against Giuliani.

He deferred paying her $1 million salary because his soon-to-be ex-wife was ‘crazy’

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Rudy Giuliani, then-President Donald Trump's personal attorney, speaks to reporters outside the White House, July 1, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

According to the complaint, Giuliani first met Dunphy in the lobby of Trump Tower in September 2016 and said he was interested in hiring her and gave her his business card. She never contacted him.

They reconnected after Giuliani sent her an unsolicited Facebook message and friend request, which she accepted, and later met with her for a formal interview at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he offered to pay her $1 million per year as his business development director and public relations consultant, and promised he would give Dunphy free legal representation.

But Giuliani also told her that he had to defer paying her salary and keep her employment secret until he settled his divorce from his “crazy” third wife, Judith, according to the lawsuit. Dunphy reluctantly agreed to defer her pay and not to publicize her employment.

He groped her in an SUV on her first day of work

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Giuliani outside his Manhattan apartment building after his law license was suspended, June 24, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

On Jan. 21, 2019, after a “long first day on the job” in South Florida, Giuliani told his bodyguard to “take a separate car so he could have privacy in the back seat” with Dunphy as his limo service drove her home in a black SUV.

“After the bodyguard left, Giuliani kissed Ms. Dunphy and asked if he could enter her home,” the complaint alleges. “Ms. Dunphy was stunned and shaken. She politely declined and thanked him for her new job and his legal representation.”

He forced her to perform oral sex

Noelle Dunphy attends a charitable fundraiser in New York City, Oct. 21, 2022. (Michael Ostuni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Noelle Dunphy attends a charitable fundraiser in New York City, Oct. 21, 2022. (Michael Ostuni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Four days later, he chartered a plane to fly her to New York, where he insisted she stay in a guest suite at his Upper East Side apartment.

When she arrived, Giuliani “smelled of alcohol,” and after she declined his offer to pour her a scotch, she politely agreed to have a glass of red wine. After having “two or three glasses,” she became intoxicated and went back to her guest suite alone.

“She put her suitcase on the bed, closed the door to the room, and took a shower,” the lawsuit states. “When Ms. Dunphy got out of the shower, she was startled to see that Giuliani had entered the guest suite, uninvited.”

Dunphy “asked for privacy” but Giuliani would not leave.

“He sat on the bed and pulled down his pants,” according to the lawsuit, which included a screenshot from an infamous scene in the movie, “Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm,” with Giuliani acting in a similar manner.

Giuliani “then pulled her head onto his penis, without asking for or obtaining any form of consent. He held her by her hair,” the lawsuit states. “It became clear to Ms. Dunphy that there was no way out of giving him oral sex. She did so, against her will.”

He drank ‘morning, noon, and night’

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Giuliani speaking to reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan, Jan. 12, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty Images)

Giuliani “made clear that satisfying his sexual demands — which came virtually anytime, anywhere — was an absolute requirement of her employment,” the complaint alleges.

He also required her to “work at his home and out of hotel rooms” to be near her.

And according to Dunphy, Giuliani “drank morning, noon, and night, and was frequently intoxicated.” His behavior, she said, was “always unpredictable.”

Giuliani also “often demanded that she work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her.”

He took Viagra ‘constantly’ and demanded she service him

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Giuliani at Trump Tower. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani also “took Viagra constantly,” the lawsuit alleges, and Dunphy “worked under the constant threat that Giuliani might demand sex from her at any moment.”

According to the suit, Giuliani “would look to Ms. Dunphy, point to his erect penis, and tell her that he could not do any work until ‘you take care of this.’”

“He often demanded oral sex while he took phone calls on speaker phone from high-profile friends and clients, including then-President Trump,” the complaint states, adding that Giuliani told Dunphy that he enjoyed receiving oral sex on the telephone because it made him “feel like Bill Clinton.”

Even when the COVID-19 pandemic “halted Giuliani’s ability to physically assault her,” he demanded that she disrobe during their work-related videoconferences.”

“He often called from his bed, where he was visibly touching himself under a white sheet,” the lawsuit states.

She says she has recordings of his harassment

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Giuliani at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Nov. 19, 2020. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

According to the lawsuit, Giuliani gave Dunphy permission to record their interactions, and she has “many” recordings of Giuliani’s alleged “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks.”

In one exchange described in the suit, Giuliani promised Dunphy that he would give her $300,000 if she “would forgo her legal rights” and “f*** me like crazy.”

Giuliani also “forbade her from seeing or talking on the phone with anyone without his approval” and began calling her “obsessively.”

On Feb. 12, 2019, according to the complaint, Giuliani called her 50 times. The next day, he called 53 times.

And according to her complaint, Giuliani “never asked Dunphy to sign a nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement.”

Giuliani said he and Trump were selling pardons for $2 million each

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Giuliani arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in Bedminster, N.J., Nov. 20, 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

According to Dunphy, Giuliani asked her during a Feb. 16, 2019, meeting “if she knew anyone in need of a pardon” because he and then-President Trump were “selling pardons for $2 million” each.

Giuliani told 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,” the suit alleges.

Trump granted numerous pardons during his presidency, but there is no evidence Trump or Giuliani were ever compensated for any presidential pardon granted during the former president’s time in office.

Here’s the full copy of her lawsuit against Giuliani

[Editor's note: This story has been updated to include an additional response from Giuliani's adviser.]