Rudy Giuliani Lied About Heckler's Back Slap: $2M Lawsuit

NEW YORK CITY — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's dubious story about a heckler's boulder-like back slap landed him his second lawsuit in New York City this week.

Giuliani faces a $2 million federal lawsuit filed by Daniel Gill, a ShopRite worker who argues he was falsely arrested after a highly publicized run-in at the Staten Island grocery store in June 2022.

The former mayor lied when told police that Gill — who called Giuliani a "scumbag" as he patted him on the back during a campaign stop in the store — hurt him with a back slap, the lawsuit contends.

"I got hit as if a boulder hit me," Giuliani said later.

Gill is represented by prominent civil rights attorney Ron Kuby, who argues Giuliani colluded with several NYPD officers to get his client jailed over an annoying, if ultimately trivial, encounter.

Prosecutors eventually downgraded and dismissed charges against Gill.

Giuliani's story was undercut by a video that showed Gill either tapping or patting Giuliani on the back, much like another woman did during the campaign stop, the lawsuit contends.

The video resulted in much public mockery of Giuliani's story.

"D---, I guess I've been assaulted all my life and just never knew it," one person tweeted.

But Giuliani continued to claim the back slap felt "like somebody shot me" and that he could have "cracked my skull," the lawsuit states.

"To date, Giuliani has not provided medical records which clinically substantiate any of these claims; there is nothing but his fabulously unreliable and false self-reporting," the lawsuit states.

A spokesperson for Giuliani told the New York Daily News that the suit should be dismissed.

“The decision to make an arrest was made by the police following (their) own investigation,” the spokesperson said, according to the report.

Giuliani was also sued this week by a woman who said he coerced her into sex while she worked for him as an off-the-books employee.