By Jordan Freiman, News Editor
Updated May 4, 2026 / 3:52 AM EDT
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in “critical but stable condition,” his spokesperson Ted Goodman said Sunday.
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same strength now,” Goodman said. “We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”
No immediate reason was given for the 81-year-old’s hospitalization.
Last year, Giuliani suffered broken vertebrae and “multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg” after the vehicle he was riding in was struck from behind on a highway in Manchester, New Hampshire, his spokesperson Michael Ragusa said at the time.
Giuliani first gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s as a New York City prosecutor before being elected mayor. He was serving as mayor during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a role that placed him in the national spotlight. After two terms, he pursued national politics, including a 2008 presidential campaign.
He later became a close ally of Donald Trump during Trump’s 2016 campaign and played a prominent role in efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, including spreading debunked claims about ballot counters and voting machines.
Giuliani was disbarred in New York and Washington, D.C., and declared bankruptcy after being found liable for $148 million for spreading falsehoods about Georgia election workers. He and others tied to the false-elector scheme were pardoned by Trump in November 2025; the pardon does not shield him from state-level charges he faces in Georgia and Arizona.
In a Truth Social post after news of the hospitalization, Trump called Giuliani “fabulous … a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”