"Raoul Felder, his divorce lawyer, tells Rolling Stone "the Rudy Giuliani that I knew was a very careful, brilliant lawyer. . . . It's hard to comport what I see and the way he was."...
...Giuliani's recent divorce case revealed how much had changed. He was living a $232,000-a-month lifestyle, with six homes and 11 country-club memberships. His now ex-wife's divorce lawyer announced in court that Rudy had spent $12,000 on cigars and $7,000 on fountain pens within the space of a few months....
...It was a lifestyle in search of an income, and there was no shortage of businesses and foreign governments willing to throw money at Giuliani and his new consultancy, Giuliani Partners. By 2006, Giuliani's share of the firm's profits was nearly $6 million, a former employee told Rolling Stone. He took home $4.1 million the following year, financial disclosure forms show....
...Clients such as Entergy, an energy company seeking to renew its license for the troubled Indian Point nuclear reactors in New York, were willing to hire "America's Mayor" for prestige alone. "If he says the plant is safe, people are going to believe him," an Entergy spokesman told The Wall Street Journal.
Another client was Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, which paid Giuliani and his firm millions to convince the government that the company did nothing wrong when it aggressively marketed the pain pills that have claimed countless lives during the opioid crisis....
...The biggest source of income for "Rudy Inc.," however, was speaking fees. In a 13-month period ending in 2007, Giuliani earned $11.4 million for 124 appearances, as he jetted around the world for $100,000 a speech....
...Judith Giuliani said that something changed in Rudy after 2008 that led to the collapse of their marriage. "It was an ongoing process," Judith told New York magazine, "that began when he lost the presidential campaign." Pressed for details, she replied: "For a variety of reasons that I know as a spouse and a nurse, he has become a different man."...
...Giuliani had to look further afield for work. He advised Mujahedin e-Khalq, an Iranian opposition group that was, until 2012, on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Another new client was a Ukrainian company with ties to the Kremlin. Giuliani traveled to Belgrade to advise Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's prime minister, who was the former information minister to Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who was prosecuted for genocide....
...He drinks heavily, heavily, heavily," a former aide says. Another former lieutenant, who recently watched Giuliani put away a lot of booze at a party they both attended, says, "I do wonder when I see him whether there is something wrong with him."...
...Giuliani has attracted the attention of prosecutors in the Manhattan office he used to run. Grand jury subpoenas suggest Giuliani is under investigation for possible crimes including money laundering, campaign-finance violations, making false statements, obstruction of justice, and acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist. (Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, declined to comment.)"...
Rudy Giuliani: What Happened to America's Mayor? Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rudy-giuliani-new-york-trump-997712/
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