As part of the defamation verdict against him Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to hand over his assets to pay the amount he owes to two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

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 $148m defamation judgment against him, his lawyer said.

Joseph Cammarata said in a letter filed late on 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.

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A jury previously ruled that Giuliani owes Freeman and Moss around $150m for spreading lies about them after the 2020 election though Giuliani is appealing the ruling. Liman authorized the two women to immediately begin selling the assets.
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Giuliani was also ordered to turn over his apartment on the Upper East Side of New York and several items of Yankees memorabilia. The two women are also entitled to fees the Trump campaign owes Giuliani for his legal work in 2020.
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Representatives for Freeman and Moss said last week that they visited Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment only to discover it was cleared out well before the October deadline. Giuliani first listed the three-bedroom apartment for $6.5m in 2023, but had cut the price to a little more than $5.1m this fall.

Liman did not order Giuliani to turn over a separate Palm Beach condominium, for now, amid an ongoing legal dispute there. Liman instead entered an order barring Giuliani from selling the condo while that dispute is ongoing.

One thing that struck me is that Giuliani owned ‘dozens’ of watches. Why would anyone own so many watches? Are they like jewelry, that he changes to match his clothes on any given day? But how many different colored outfits can one man have? And who the hell notices the watches on a man’s wrist and is impressed by seeing a variety, changing from day to day? I assume that these must be very expensive watches in order to be worth being included in the settlement. Are expensive watches considered investments that appreciate with time, like works of art?

All my life I have had only one watch at a time, getting a new one only when the old one dies. For the last decade or so, I’ve had a traditional watch made by Citizen that keeps excellent time. The only occasions where I have to adjust it is twice yearly when the clocks change due to the daylight savings time shifts. It is powered by ambient light and never requires batteries. But my daughters were worried that since I am old and live mostly alone, that I might suffer a fall at home and be incapacitated and unable to call for help. This happens quite frequently in the US because of the aging population. Since they know that I tend to dismiss such concerns and am a minimalist when it comes to possessions and do not like to buy more stuff than I think is absolutely necessary, one of them gifted me an Apple watch. It does lots of things but the main feature that appeals to them is that it detects falls and allows you to call for assistance. If you do not move or take any action for a couple of minutes, the watch calls for help on your behalf. It also has some nifty features, the one that is most useful for me being reminders every hour to get up and walk around briefly. I like that feature because I tend to work on my computer and read a lot and can get so absorbed in what I am doing that I can be sedentary for long periods of time and that is not good for anyone.

So now I have two watches, which is one too many. I am trying out the Apple watch to see if I like it sufficiently to decide to keep it. If so, I will give away my old watch since I do not see the point of having more than one.

But Giuliani has, or had, dozens of watches. Baffling.