Rudy Giuliani, Trump's ex-personal lawyer, sued for alleged sexual assault | World News

A former affiliate of Rudy Giuliani sued the ex-New York mayor for $10 million on Monday, alleging he subjected her to “wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment.”

Noelle Dunphy moreover accuses Giuliani of wage theft and “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks” that made her work setting “unbearable.”

The lawsuit says that the earlier personal lawyer for Donald Trump “usually demanded oral intercourse whereas he took phone calls on speaker phone from high-profile associates and consumers, along with then-President Trump.”

The go properly with, filed in a New York state courtroom, says that Dunphy began working for Giuliani in January 2019 as his director of enterprise enchancment on a wage of $1 million a 12 months.

She alleges that Giuliani began abusing her practically immediately after she started working for him.

“He made clear that satisfying his sexual requires — which acquired right here practically anytime, wherever — was an absolute requirement of her employment and of his approved illustration,” the lawsuit acknowledged.

It says that Giuliani, 78, coerced Dunphy into giving him oral intercourse “in the direction of her will” at his condominium.

The lawsuit moreover alleges that Giuliani “usually demanded that she (Dunphy) work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her.”

The go properly with says that Giuliani would usually video-call the plaintiff “from his mattress, the place he was visibly touching himself beneath a white sheet.”

Dunphy moreover claims that Giuliani acknowledged her pay “have to be deferred and her employment saved ‘secret'” until his divorce proceedings accomplished.

The lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages.

A spokesperson for Giuliani acknowledged in an announcement despatched to US media that Giuliani “vehemently and completely denies the allegations inside the criticism and plans to fully defend in the direction of these allegations.”

“That's pure harassment and an strive at extortion,” the spokesperson acknowledged.

Giuliani was mayor of New York for eight years, incomes nationwide approval for fundamental the US financial capital inside the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 assaults on the US by Al-Qaeda.

Nonetheless his reputation has plummeted in current occasions, largely on account of his promotion of the conspiracy idea that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

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