Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million as defamation trial wraps up

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Giuliani ordered to pay $148M for claims against election workers

Fox News senior correspondent Jonathan Serrie has the latest on the defamation case on 'Your World.'

Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay $148,169,000 to two women he falsely accused of committing election fraud in the 2020 election.

The former New York City mayor, and Donald Trump ally and former personal lawyer, was on trial for the defamation of two Georgia election workers this week at a federal court in Washington, D.C. 

Giuliani had accused Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, of fraud while advancing former President Trump's unproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell had already awarded default judgment to Freeman and Moss in August. 

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Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, departs the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse, Monday, in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani was also ordered to pay legal fees for Moss and Freeman, amounting to around $270,000.

Speaking outside the courthouse Friday, Moss said "the past few years has been devastating."

"The flame that Giuliani lit with those lies and passed to so many others to keep that flame blazing changed every aspect of our lives, our home family, our work, our sense of safety and mental health," Moss said. "And we're still working to rebuild as we move forward and continue to seek justice." 

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Former President Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images/File)

"Our greatest wish is that no one, no election worker or voter or school board member or anyone else ever experiences anything like what we went through," she added.

Giuliani said Friday he'd appeal the ruling.

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Rudy Giuliani (Chris Kleponis/Polaris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)

"The absurdity of the number merely underscores the absurdity of the entire proceeding, where I've not been allowed to offer one single piece of evidence in defense,of which I have a lot," he said. "So I am quite confident when this case gets before a fair tribunal, it will be reversed so quickly, it'll make your head spin and the absurd number that just came in will help that, actually."

The purpose of this week's trial was to determine how much money Giuliani would have to pay the women in damages.

Fox News' Jake Gibson contributed to this report.