Rudy Giuliani has relinquished dozens of watches and a Mercedes once owned by movie star Lauren Bacall to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment, according to his lawyer Friday. Joseph Cammarata said in a letter filed late Friday in Manhattan federal court that the trove of watches and a ring were delivered by FedEx to a bank in Atlanta, Georgia, in the morning. The 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL 500 was turned over at an address in Hialeah, Florida, and an undisclosed amount of funds from Giuliani’s Citibank accounts were also surrendered to the two women who won the judgment, according to the letter.
But Cammarata argued that forcing Giuliani to relinquish his luxury vehicle was “wholly improper” as the car should have been appraised first. If the value of the Mercedes turned out to be less than $5,500, then it should be exempt from the judgment under law, he argued in the letter. If it’s determined to be worth more than that, then it should be auctioned off, with some of the proceeds going to the two women — Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.
“This is how the proper enforcement of these assets should work,” Cammarata wrote in bolded text. “Just ordering the vehicle to be turned over to the Plaintiffs without any appraisal has taken away Defendant’s statutory and constitutional rights.” The letter also goes on to argue that some of Giuliani’s other possessions should also be exempt from the judgment .