Rudy Giuliani’s son Andrew is battling to prevent his father’s Yankees World Series rings from being used to resolve a $148 million defamation judgment against the former New York City mayor.
According to documents filed in court, Andrew Giuliani claims that three of the four rings, which commemorate the Yankees’ 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 championships, were given to him by his father and therefore should not be seized to comply with the judgment.
Plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation after he accused them of trying to undermine former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, are demanding that the former mayor “turn over certain property,” which includes the rings.
However, in a federal court filing in Manhattan on Tuesday, Andrew’s lawyers asserted that: “An order requiring transfer of these rings to Plaintiffs would permanently deprive Andrew of his ownership in them”; Consequently, Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Liman gave Andrew permission to intervene in the case in order to claim the rings.
Andrew expressed how precious the rings are to him, noting 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,” the record reads.
He then attached a photo to the court documents showing himself, his father, and his wife holding the rings, which were displayed in wooden boxes on the night they were presented to him.
Freeman and Moss, being mother and daughter, are also trying to acquire other assets owned by Rudy Giuliani to settle their sentence. These include several properties, numerous luxury watches and a Mercedes-Benz automobile.
They successfully asked the judge to order Rudy to take his Manhattan apartment off the market after reducing the sale price by nearly $1 million. The couple argued that this constituted “value-destroying conduct” and could significantly decrease the amount they would receive from Rudy’s “single most valuable asset,” as reported by Law & Crime.
