{"id":183338,"date":"2026-04-02T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:36:38","slug":"rudy-giuliani-loses-bid-to-stop-10m-noelle-dunphy-sex-assault-lawsuit-the-morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183338\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Giuliani loses bid to stop $10M Noelle Dunphy sex assault lawsuit \u2013 The Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Manhattan judge Tuesday denied Rudy Giuliani\u2019s motion to dismiss a $10 million lawsuit<\/a> brought by a woman who claims the former mayor subjected her to sexual assault, \u201calcohol-drenched rants\u201d and withheld $2 million in wages, instead ordering the years-old case to proceed promptly to discovery.<\/p>\n

In a seven-page decision, state Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Moyne found Noelle Dunphy had sufficiently stated her allegations against Giuliani, 81, and gave him 20 days to respond to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court finds that the amended complaint states legally cognizable claims upon which relief can be granted. Factual disputes over the credibility of [Dunphy\u2019s] narrative or the exact contours of the relationship are reserved for summary judgment or trial,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parties shall continue with discovery immediately.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

Dunphy\u2019s May 2023 suit<\/a> alleges Giuliani hired her in January 2019 as his director of business development for a promised salary of $1 million and claimed he would pay her once his bitter divorce with Judith Nathan was finalized. As an incentive, the former Trump adviser allegedly offered Dunphy pro bono services in an ongoing domestic violence case involving her abusive ex, her suit details.<\/p>\n

Over the following two years, Dunphy alleges that she worked around-the-clock for Giuliani for no pay and that he sexually assaulted her several times, usually after drinking. She claims she was fired in January 2021 after confronting Giuliani about his behavior and never got paid for the two years under his employ.<\/p>\n

In addition to the alleged assaults, Dunphy\u2019s complaint, which includes claims for battery, assault, sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, accuses Giuliani of endlessly disparaging her with misogynistic and degrading comments, many of which she details surreptitiously recording.<\/p>\n

In denying the allegations, Giuliani has claimed he and Dunphy, 45, had a brief romantic fling and that she was never his employee.<\/p>\n

His motion to dismiss the suit, among other positions, argued Dunphy had failed to adequately make the allegation she was subjected to gender-based animus in filing a claim under the Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendants are wrong,\u201d Moyne wrote Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cBecause Ms. Dunphy explicitly alleges nonconsensual sexual intercourse and oral sex, the animus requirement is satisfied at the pleading stage. Furthermore, the amended complaint details numerous misogynistic and degrading remarks made by Giuliani, providing independent support for gender-based animus.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Daily News, Dunphy\u2019s attorney, Justin Kelton, said her team was grateful for the decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court\u2019s decision is a complete vindication for our brave client on every single issue, and every single argument, spanning all 22 causes of action,\u201d Kelton said. \u201cWe are grateful to the court for its thoughtful analysis of the issues, and our client is looking forward to the next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The News reached out to Giuliani, a representative and a lawyer who has assisted in his defense in the case. While submerged in debt and fighting several civil and criminal cases, Giuliani represented himself<\/a> in the lawsuit at one point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan judge Tuesday denied Rudy Giuliani\u2019s motion to dismiss a $10 million lawsuit brought by a woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[266,75,84,83,7299,607,9,24,12,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-183338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-nation","13":"tag-national-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}