Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani in critical condition at Florida hospital

Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News on May 3, 2026

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Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized and is in critical condition, a spokesperson said on Sunday.

“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition,” Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman posted on social media shortly before 7 p.m.

“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak.”

Goodman did not say what sent Giuliani, 81, to the hospital.

Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa, confirmed via email that the former mayor is hospitalized in Florida, but declined to elaborate further. “All the information we are allowed to give is out right now,” Ragusa said in an email.

Giuliani was mayor of New York City during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, serving from 1994 to 2001. His leadership of the city in the aftermath of the attack propelled him into the national spotlight as he became known as “America’s Mayor.”

He has since become a close political ally of President Trump’s, pressing the debunked narrative that the 2020 election was somehow stolen by the Democrats.

“Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition,” President Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social.

“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!” Trump wrote.

In 2025 Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra, as well as cuts, bruising and injuries to his left arm and lower leg in a car crash in New Hampshire. The former mayor was a passenger in a rental Ford Bronco driven by Goodman when they were rear ended by another driver on the southbound side of Interstate 93 last August, according to police in N.H.

After serving as mayor, Giuliani became Trump’s personal lawyer during the president’s first term of office.

Giuliani has straddled the brink of bankruptcy in recent years, facing countless lawsuits, including an ongoing sexual assault and harassment case in Manhattan brought by Noelle Dunphy, who claims Giuliani never paid her for working as his assistant and subjected her to sexual misconduct. Giuliani denies the allegations.