Dominion, Giuliani Settle $1.3B Defamation Suit

Former New York City mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani settled a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit levied against him by Dominion Voting Systems over his claims about the 2020 election.

The company and Giuliani agreed to the “dismissal of all claims and causes of action asserted in this matter by Dominion against Giuliani with prejudice.”

“Each party shall bear its own attorneys’ fees, expenses, and costs,” Dominion’s lawyers said in the Friday court filing. The details of the settlement are unclear.

The company filed a lawsuit against Giuliani in 2021, citing multiple social media posts made by the Republican. He said the company helped rig the election against Trump and flipped votes in favor of former President Joe Biden.

But they noted that the Trump campaign did not mention them in their complaint about the election.

“Notably, although Dominion machines were used in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, the Trump Campaign’s complaint did not include any allegations about Dominion,” the company’s lawyers said in the lawsuit in January 2021.

The allegations against Dominion Voting Systems were one of many following President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. Trump argued that the election was rigged.

Media outlets like Fox News and Newsmax also settled lawsuits with Dominion Voting Systems. Fox News settled with the company for $787.5 million in 2023, and Newsmax paid $67 million.

Giuliani has faced several financially damaging lawsuits in recent months. He was recently ordered to pay his former lawyers more than $1.36 million for unpaid legal fees.

He settled a lawsuit with two Georgia election workers after a jury ordered him to pay them $148 million. The former mayor had claimed the two workers helped Democrats steal the election.

The Republican was allowed to keep personal assets like the World Series rings gifted to him from the New York Yankees from 1994 to 2001.

Dominion Voting Systems had warned Giuliani in a December 2020 letter before they sued him in 2021 to stop making false statements about them.

But Giuliani accused the company again of contributing to voter fraud not long after on his radio show.

The former mayor said, “So long as you have Dominion, there is clear and present danger” that election results could be rigged. He added that he had “boxes of evidence to support his claims.”

The company then sued him, saying he orchestrated “a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion” made up of “demonstrably false” allegations.