The plaintiff who filed a $10 million breach of contract lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani is now asking the court to impose sanctions on him and his counsel, claiming their most recent defense motion was riddled with false assertions and spurious claims.

The request comes early in the litigation cycle, but plaintiffs lawyer Justin Kelton writes the defendants’ conduct is impossible to ignore because “Giuliani and his counsel act like truth and accuracy simply do not matter.”

Kelton, of Abrams Fensterman, represents Noelle Dunphy, who says she was hired by the former New York City mayor and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2019.

Dunphy sued Giuliani and his related business entities in May, alleging violations of New York labor law and sexual assault. Giuliani denies that Dunphy ever worked for him, says they were in a brief romantic relationship and that he never forced her into performing non-consensual sex acts.

“Ms. Dunphy is forced to bring this motion because Giuliani and the corporate Defendants repeatedly lied to the Court in their pending motion to strike certain allegations from Ms. Dunphy’s Verified Complaint,” the document states.

Giuliani’s counsel Adam Katz, of Goldberg Segalla, filed a motion to strike portions of the complaint in June, arguing that portions of the lawsuit—including details of his client’s alleged sexual preferences—were superfluous to the underlying litigation.

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