Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in “critical but stable condition,” his spokesperson Ted Goodman said Sunday. Goodman did not provide additional medical details about the 81‑year‑old.
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that strength now,” Goodman said in a statement, adding a request that people “join us in prayer for America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”
Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 and became nationally known for leading New York City after the September 11, 2001, attacks, earning the nickname “America’s mayor.” In later years he served as an adviser and personal attorney to Donald Trump, becoming a prominent advocate for Trump’s claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani’s post‑2020 activities led to criminal charges in two U.S. states and to a defamation lawsuit brought by election workers; he has denied wrongdoing. In 2023 a federal jury ordered him to pay $148 million to two election workers in the defamation case. Last November, Trump issued him a broad pardon.
On Sunday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform calling Giuliani the “Best Mayor in the History of New York City” and saying he had been “treated so badly” by Democrats. Giuliani was also hospitalized last September after a car crash in New Hampshire that fractured a vertebra and caused other injuries.