Rudy Giuliani hospitalized, spokesperson says

Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized in critical condition, his spokesman Theodore Goodman said on Sunday. Giuliani, 81, served as New York City’s mayor from 1994 to 2001.Video above: Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani seriously injured in New Hampshire crash “Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition,” the statement said. “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. We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor — Rudy Giuliani.”Giuliani’s primary residence is a condominium in Palm Beach, Florida. He hosted a livestream of “America’s Mayor Live” on Friday from Palm Beach, where he noted he was feeling “under the weather” and had a raspy voice.In September 2025, Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash after leaving a Minor League Baseball game in New Hampshire. Giuliani was a passenger in the car, driven by Goodman. Goodman and Giuliani were flagged down by a woman on Interstate 93, who told them that she had been involved in a domestic violence incident.Police said that Goodman called New Hampshire State Police and remained at the scene until troopers arrived. When merging back on I-93, they were hit from behind.The former mayor was taken to the hospital and treated for a serious back injury. State police say that the driver who hit Giuliani’s car had no connection to the initial report of the domestic violence incident. Last year, President Donald Trump awarded Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. “There is no American more deserving of this honor,” Goodman said at the time. “Mayor Rudy Giuliani took down the Mafia, saved New York City, comforted the nation following 9/11, and served in countless other ways to improve the lives of others. Thank you, President Trump, for honoring his life and legacy.”Giuliani was dubbed “America’s mayor” in light of his leadership in New York after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.Video below: Rudy Giuliani serves breakfast at New Hampshire dinerHe later became Trump’s personal attorney for a time and a vocal proponent of Trump’s allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.“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,” Trump wrote Sunday on his social media platform. “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!”Two former Georgia elections workers later won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani. 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.Giuliani was hospitalized in September after suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries in a car crash in New Hampshire.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.The Associated Press contributed to this report