Legal Profile of Candidates

Rudolph 'Rudy' Giuliani

• Born: May 28, 1944
• New York University Law School, cum laude (1968)
• Admitted to the New York Bar (1969)

Legal Career

• Clerked for federal judge in U.S. District Court, Southern Dist. of New York (1969 - 1970)
• Assistant U.S. Attorney, then U.S. Attorney (1970 – 1975)
• Associate Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Staff to Deputy A.G. at the Justice Department (1975 – 1977)
• Partner, Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler (1977 – 1981)
• Associate Attorney General (1981 - 1983)
• U.S. Attorney, Southern District of N.Y. (1983 – 1989)
  • Major prosecutions included:
    • Ivan Boesky insider trading charges
    • Michael Miliken insider trading charges
    • Mafia Commission trial prosecuting heads of N.Y.’s ‘Five Families’
• Partner: Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP (2005 – Date)
  

Political Career

• Mayor of New York City (1994 - 2001)

Pivitol career moments involving law

• On and after Sept. 11, 2001 (9/11), Giuliani is often remembered for engendering public support and empathy for New Yorkers after the terrorist attacks, and his statements like “terrorism can’t stop us.”

• First wife – Married his second cousin Regina Peruggi in 1968
  Had marriage annulled by Catholic Church in 1983 citing technical justification, but civil divorce issued a year earlier in 1982
  • No children
• Met second wife – Donna Hanover in Miami in 1982. Two children.
• Andrew (1986)
• Caroline (1989)
• Giuliani had a bitterly contested divorce with Hanover.  Divorce papers were filed in 2000.
• N.Y.C. divorce lawyer Raoul Felder’s firm were Giuliani’s attorneys
• Divorce lawyer Helene Brezinsky represented Donna Hanover
• The legal dispute was settled in July 2002 with Giuliani paying Hanover $6.8 million and giving her custody of the couple’s children
  

• Married third wife – Judith Nathan on May 24, 2003
  • They met at a cigar bar in May 1999 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side