Despite having bought it for nearly $5 million right after his stint as mayor of New York ended in 2001, Rudy Giuliani’s luxury apartment hasn’t appreciated much in value. That’s probably pretty distressing for him, seeing as he’s neck-deep in unpaid bills.

A central figure in almost everything Trump has been accused of — Rudy dove in with gusto to Team Trump — the man formerly known as “America’s Mayor” has not just legal bills, but even a $57,000 phone bill he hasn’t paid. If a phone bill that high doesn’t say something about him being up to nefarious deeds, I don’t know what does.

But the real reason he’s “close to broke,” as even his own lawyers have described him, is the racketeering and conspiracy charges he faces over his involvement in trying to overturn the 2020 election. The legal team he’s convinced to defend him doesn’t come cheap.

If that isn’t enough, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that Giuliani defamed former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, and is liable for damages after he failed to comply with discovery obligations in their lawsuit over his baseless claims that they committed fraud during the 2020 election.

Huge win for Freeman and Moss and defeat for Rudy, but I wonder what discovery he is hiding? I suspect it is pretty bad- ie criminally damning- for him to risk this result which is financially ruinous and predicated on his discovery violations. https://t.co/5QZI7l3w2r

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The penthouse apartment on East 66th Street on New York’s Upper East Side has been up for sale on the market since July, so at Rudy has known this was coming. And although he was probably hoping it would go for more than the $6.5 million he’s asking, he seems to be the victim of the same effect that Trump has been suffering.

His name and legacy are no longer the same. Where it once would have been a mark of honor to have served as New York’s Attorney General, and then as the Mayor, he has ruined his own legacy with his antics and absolutely unhinged interviews and public appearances.

Aside from the criminal charges, Rudy is facing a defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic, a voting machine company that Rudy accused of “rigging” the election against Trump in 2020. Along with Fox News, Giuliani is being sued for more than $2 billion for making the claims on air.

In an interview with the New York Times, Giuliani’s ex-wife Judith described the apartment that Rudy is now having to part with:

“It was home for us. He was my husband, and he loved coming home. It was a place where he went for … respite. Rudy had prostate cancer, when we first met, which we also lived through in that apartment … [In the wood-paneled library], he could smoke cigars and relax and watch his Yankee games.”

But in the end, Judith told the Times, it no longer felt like a home, after his association with Trump and the notorious FBI raid on the apartment. Rudy and Judith’s divorce was finalized in 2019.

Take a look at this rather luxurious home. Rudy was a U.S. Attorney, a mayor…where did he get the money to afford a home like THIS: