- A brand new lawsuit from a former staffer alleges Rudy Giuliani made frequent racist and sexist remarks.
- The previous staffer alleged Giuliani stated Jewish folks have to “recover from the Passover.”
- “The purple sea parted, huge deal,” Giuliani stated, the lawsuit alleges.
Rudy Giuliani, the previous mayor of New York Metropolis-turned disgraced Trump legal professional, often made sexist, racist, homophobic, and in any other case offensive feedback, a former worker alleged in a bombshell civil lawsuit filed Monday, which additionally accuses Giuliani of rape and sexual harassment.
Noelle Dunphy, a former staffer for Giuliani alleged in a 70-page lawsuit filed in Manhattan this week that the previous Trump legal professional fostered a hostile work surroundings throughout her two years of employment, forcing her to interact in intercourse acts and hearken to “revolting” feedback about girls, Jewish folks, and different marginalized teams.
Giuliani, by his spokesman Ted Goodman, “unequivocally” denied the allegations on Monday: “Mayor Giuliani’s lifetime of public service speaks for itself and he’ll pursue all out there cures and counterclaims.”
However Dunphy alleges that Giuliani typically made “outrageous feedback,” together with racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and sexist remarks, a lot of which had been recorded, in accordance with the lawsuit. Giuliani spoke in a derogatory method about Jewish males, implying that their genitalia was inferior as a result of “pure choice,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Jews wish to undergo their freaking Passover on a regular basis, man oh man,” Giuliani as soon as stated, in accordance with the lawsuit. “Recover from the Passover. It was like 3,000 years in the past.”
“The purple sea parted, huge deal. It is not the primary time that occurred,” he continued, the lawsuit alleges.
Giuliani’s feedback in regards to the main Jewish vacation got here amid a interval of accelerating antisemitic incidents lately.
The lawsuit alleges Giuliani additionally made frequent feedback referencing “freakin Arabs” and “Jews.”
Within the lawsuit, Dunphy recounts a number of offensive alleged feedback Giuliani made throughout her tenure, together with: saying that Black and Hispanic males usually tend to “hit girls”; sexualizing a number of outstanding feminine politicians, together with Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and making quite a few homophobic remarks, together with calling actor Matt Damon a “fag.”
Dunphy was employed as director of enterprise growth for the Giuliani Corporations in January 2019, a place she held for 2 years till she was terminated after she expressed concern that Giuliani would “attempt to damage” her, the lawsuit alleges.
Dunphy stated she continued working for Giuliani regardless of her discomfort with the surroundings as a result of she needed to make sure she obtained the $1 million wage she stated he promised her. However by January 2021, Dunphy had solely been paid roughly $12,000 over the course of her two years of employment, in accordance with the lawsuit.
“She was regularly subjected by Giuliani to a hostile work surroundings, misogynistic, racist, and antisemitic communications, fixed sexual assaults, threats when she introduced up the wage she was owed, and threats when she lastly discovered the braveness to confront him along with her fears and the opportunity of authorized motion,” the lawsuit alleges.
Dunphy additionally alleged that Giuliani pressured her to interact in intercourse acts whereas he was making enterprise calls, saying it made him really feel like Invoice Clinton. She additionally accused her former boss of getting intercourse along with her whereas she was too drunk to consent and attempting to promote presidential pardons.