Rudy Giuliani says forcing him to sell Florida condo could make him ‘join the ranks of the homeless’

Disgraced former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani owes millions of dollars — but he claims that bankruptcy creditors forcing him to sell his condo in Palm Beach, Florida is “premature”, new court filings show.

Mr Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December after a jury ordered him to pay$148m to two Georgia election workers that he defamed. Last month, he filed for an appeal on the jury’s decision.

On 15 March, the Committee of Unsecured Creditors – which represents individuals and entities to whom Mr Giuliani owes money or soon could — filed a motion in bankruptcy court requesting the court to force the former mayor to sell his Florida condo.

In response, the former mayor’s lawyers filed a motion on Thursday claiming that Mr Giuliani would be “irreparably harmed” if the Florida condo is sold and then the defamation payment ruling is overturned on appeal.

The committee is “assuming that most if not all” of that judgment “will survive on appeal,” his lawyers wrote, which they argue is “premature and without legal authority.”

Mr Giuliani splits his time between his Florida and New York City properties, the lawyers wrote. Both Mr Giuliani and the committee agree that the Manhattan apartment “should be sold.” Once it’s sold, the former mayor intends to make the Palm Beach condo his primary home, the filing says.

Mr Giuliani valued his home in Palm Beach at $3.5m in previous court filings. That makes it is his second most valuable reported assets, with his Manhattan apartment worth even more. The three-bedroom Upper East Side apartment was previously listed for $6.5m but has since been taken off the market, with its value in bankruptcy court filings slashed by nearly a million.

Lawyers for the committee previously