Rudy Giuliani’s Son Pleads With Federal Court Not to Take His Dad’s Yankees World Series Rings

Last December, Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay the Georgia election workers he defamed an astronomical $148 million, a sum he almost certainly does not have. But he definitely has some money, as well as assets worth a lot of money—like, for instance, his four Yankees World Series rings, which his son is desperately trying to keep out of the hands of the workers trying to collect what they’re owed.

The New York Post reports that Andrew Giuliani argued in court papers filed this week that the rings—which are from 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000—were gifts to him from his father and should not be turned over to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won their case against Rudy last year and have said the former mayor must “turn over certain property” to them, like the rings. In the younger Giuliani’s filing, his lawyers wrote that “an order requiring transfer of these rings to Plaintiffs would permanently deprive Andrew of his ownership in them.”

Andrew has claimed that his father said to him in May 2018, “I told you when I got these that they would be yours someday, and I want to give them to you now.” The son added that “as a child and a young adult, I had spent many nights with my father watching Yankees games and bonding over our love for the team, and I was excited about receiving the rings…. My understanding then and today is that these four World Series rings were a gift from my father and that they have belonged to me since May 26, 2018.”

As the Post notes, Freeman and Moss are also attempting to gain possession of some of Rudy’s properties, luxury watches, and a Mercedes-Benz. Last May, a bankruptcy court judge effectively dubbed the ex-mayor a deadbeat after he learned he seemingly hadn’t made any effort to pay Freeman and Moss the money owed. “They have done nothing. They sold nothing. They settled nothing,” Rachel Strickland, an attorney representing the election workers, said of Rudy’s team, accusing the former mayor of getting fired from his radio job on purpose. “I agree with you,” US bankruptcy judge Sean Lane replied, according to Politico. “And I am disturbed about the status of this case.” Per ABC News, the erstwhile mayor is appealing the $148 million judgment in federal court.

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