Rudy Giuliani Spent $178,000 After Raising Homelessness Fears

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani spent $44,746 a month after telling a bankruptcy court that he could be left homeless, new figures show.
His expenses included everything from a Florida yacht club, dining at a Harley Davidson museum and maid service for his luxury Florida apartment.
Giuliani spent $178,987 in the four months from April 1 to August 2, according to accounts he has submitted to Judge Sean Lane in New York bankruptcy court.
Giuliani’s $44,746 monthly spending is about ten times what the average American earns. In the first quarter of 2024, the average monthly income was $4,935, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In a court filing on March 28, Giuliani warned that he could “join the ranks of the homeless” if he is forced to sell his multimillion dollar apartments in New York and Florida. His New York apartment was placed on the market for $6.5 million last year and later withdrawn. Giuliani valued his Florida apartment at $3.5 million in a previous bankruptcy court submission.
The latest filing states that Giuliani would be “irreparably harmed” if he had to sell his West Palm Beach apartment in Florida.
The filing, by Giuliani’s lawyer, said that Giuliani’s credit committee cannot leave him with nowhere to live.
“Surely the Committee does not intend [Mr. Giuliani] to join the ranks of the homeless?” the filing asks.
It goes on to say that Giuliani should be allowed to keep his Florida apartment because he needs “a place to operate the Podcast from if he is to earn money therefrom.”
However, the latest figures show that Giuliani’s spending continued after he expressed his concerns about homelessness.
Just days after his homelessness claim, Giuliani paid $21,000 in two installments in fees for his New York apartment to the owners corporation that runs the building.
The following month, he paid $15,995 in management fees for his condo in Southlake, Palm Beach, and paid similar fees for both buildings in the following quarter.
On April 16, he spent $148 at Palm Beach yacht club and on July 1, he made three purchases totaling over $700 at Konscious, a health food supplement company.
In June, he spent $121 at Mariella Pizza in Lexington Avenue, New York. On May 1, there was $195 spent on the Merry Maids cleaning service for his Florida apartment.
There was also $2,400 paid to a Long Island moving and storage company on July 7 and over $130 at the restaurant bar in the Ambassador Hotel, Milwaukee during the Republican convention. His trip to the convention also included $143 spent in the bar restaurant at the Harley Davidson museum.
Newsweek sought email comment from Giuliani’s spokesperson on Friday.
Giuliani declared bankruptcy in December last year after a jury awarded $148 million to two Georgia election workers who won a defamation lawsuit against him.
As an attorney for Donald Trump in 2020, Giuliani falsely accused mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of adding ballots for Joe Biden, who won the state.
Giuliani has to give the bankruptcy court a quarterly report on his income and spending as part of his bankruptcy filing. Giuliani is now hoping to come out of bankruptcy, a request that Lane will sign off on once Giuliani pays $331,000 he must pay to a financial investigation company hired by his creditors.