Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been injured in a car crash in New Hampshire, his spokesman said.
Giuliani, 81, was struck from behind Aug. 30 by a vehicle traveling at high speed while riding on the highway in an unspecified part of New Hampshire, his spokesman, Michael Ragusa, said in an Aug. 31 post on X.
According to Reuters, the crash occurred near Manchester, N.H.
The Palm Beach resident sustained a fractured thoracic vertebra, “multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg,” Ragusa wrote. Giuliani was taken to a trauma center for treatment, where he was joined by his business partner and medical provider.
Just before the accident, Giuliani had been flagged down by a woman involved in a domestic violence incident, and he had rendered aid and called 911, Ragusa said.
Earlier this month, Giuliani sold his New York penthouse apartment on 66th Street for nearly $5 million, cutting his last ties to the city he once led.
On July 15, 2024, he filed a declaration of domicile in Palm Beach County to declare the Palm Beach condo his permanent residence. His attorney at the time, Kenneth Caruso, argued in a court filing that the condo was protected by Florida law that says a homestead should be presumed.
The condo survived a settlement with two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued Giuliani and won a $148 million judgment in 2023 after he falsely said the pair stuffed ballot boxes during the 2020 election, when Giuliani was acting as an attorney for President Donald Trump in the months following his campaign loss.
Freeman and Moss sought to receive Giuliani’s Palm Beach condo, New York apartment and other possessions, including watches and an antique Mercedes-Benz, to satisfy the 2023 judgment. The two sides reached a settlement in January that allowed Guiliani to keep his Palm Beach residence.
Giuliani bought the unit in the Southlake building in Palm Beach in February 2010 with his then-wife Judith Nathan Giuliani for a recorded $1.41 million. The apartment was last marketed for sale in 2019, before the Giulianis’ bitter divorce, with an asking price of $3.3 million. But a buyer never emerged, and Giuliani took sole possession of the condo as part of the couple’s divorce settlement.
According to court records, the condo is valued at $3.5 million. The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office website placed its value at $2.67 million in 2022, $3.07 million in 2023 and $3.5 million last year.
But how much time Giuliani actually spent there was called into question by attorneys for Freeman and Moss, who argued that Giuliani actually spent most of his time in other places, including New Hampshire.