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'Vapid depravity': Rudy Giuliani ordered to prepare for 'sordid' sex trial (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 2 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to prepare for trial after he failed to silence “sordid” sex claims hurled against him — and a lawyer made famous by a movie took up his accuser’s case.

The disgraced former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer must sit for a deposition before the end of January next year — and be ready to go before a jury by the end of March, according to a judge's order filed in New York Supreme Court this week.

It follows a 3-year fight by Noelle Dunphy, who claims she was subjected to booze-and-Viagra-fueled sexual harassment, including being forced to have sex, while working for Giuliani between 2019 and 2021. She claims to have recordings of many of Giuliani’s demands.

The order from Manhattan Judge Nicholas Moyne quashes efforts by Giuliani’s legal team to have the case thrown out — and brushes aside arguments that he’s too sick and poor to stand trial.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uhhhh, being forced to have sex is rape. Let's call it what it is.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago

Beat me to it. Darkness save us from passive voice and other artful rephrasings.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me‽‽‽ When the fuck has being too poor to stand trial a thing‽‽‽‽‽

[–] classic@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

Yep. That's why we only see multi-millionaires and billionaires in prison. I still can't believe we let the poor get a free out of jail card

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 points 2 days ago

You can’t delight in a fall from grace as spectacular, as humiliating, as what’s happened to Rudy Giuliani.

uh, what fall from grace? you don't live several decades, wake up one day, and just start being a sexual predator. he might have fell from fame, but he was always a predator, just nobody knew it. there was no grace in his soul.

[–] dregan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That guy's still alive?!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Did he pay the pollworkers yet?

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Hopefully his illness is nothing trivial