Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized in critical condition late Sunday for an undisclosed medical condition.
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition,” Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman posted on social media shortly before 7 p.m.
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak.”
Goodman did not say what sent Giuliani, 81, to the hospital.
Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa, confirmed via email that the former mayor is hospitalized in Florida, but declined to elaborate further. “All the information we are allowed to give is out right now,” Ragusa said in an email.
Giuliani was mayor of New York City during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, serving from 1994 to 2001. His leadership of the city in the aftermath of the attack propelled him into the national spotlight as he became known as “America’s Mayor.”
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Rudy Giuliani campaigns for presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 in Wilmington, North Carolina. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)
He has since become a close political ally of President Trump’s, pressing the debunked narrative that the 2020 election was somehow stolen by the Democrats.
Giuliani hosted his online show, “America’s Mayor Live,” Friday night from Palm Beach, Florida. As he opened the show, he coughed and his voice sounded more raspy than usual. He remarked: “My voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do, but I’ll get closer to the microphone.”
“Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition,” President Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social.
“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!” Trump wrote.
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Rudy Giuliani, center, speaks to reporters after leaving federal court in Washington on Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
In 2025 Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra, as well as cuts, bruising and injuries to his left arm and lower leg in a car crash in New Hampshire. The former mayor was a passenger in a rental Ford Bronco driven by Goodman when they were rear ended by another driver on the southbound side of Interstate 93 last August, according to police in N.H.
After serving as mayor, Giuliani became Trump’s personal lawyer during the president’s first term of office.
Giuliani was arrested in 2024 on conspiracy, fraud and other charges related to alleged election meddling in Arizona, to which he pleaded not guilty. Trump pardoned him upon his election to his second term.
Giuliani has straddled the brink of bankruptcy in recent years, facing countless lawsuits, including an ongoing sexual assault and harassment case in Manhattan brought by Noelle Dunphy, who claims Giuliani never paid her for working as his assistant and subjected her to sexual misconduct. Giuliani denies the allegations.
Two former Georgia elections workers won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani in 2023.
As they sought to collect the judgment, the former federal prosecutor was found in contempt of court and faced a trial this winter over the ownership of some of his assets. He ultimately struck a deal that let him keep his homes and various belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to stop speaking ill of the ex-election workers.
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U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, right, explains a chart detailing mafia structure at a press conference in New York on February 26, 1985. (Tom Monaster / New York Daily News)
Giuliani was elected New York’s mayor in 1993 after serving as one of the nation’s highest-profile prosecutors, taking on mobsters and crooked Wall Street traders. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 but abandoned his race against Hillary Rodham Clinton after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
In 2007, Giuliani ran for president. He started with huge name recognition and fundraising prowess, but his campaign faltered, and he withdrew in January 2008. He toyed with running for other offices but ultimately became a regular television political commentator.
