Giuliani daughter charged with shoplifting

August 05, 2010|Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani’s daughter was arrested yesterday on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge at a beauty supplies store after she was seen on security video pocketing makeup, police said.

Caroline Giuliani, a 20-year-old Harvard University student, was seen taking five items worth more than $100 at a Sephora store in Manhattan, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.

Store managers, after calling police, said they didn’t want to press charges against her, Browne said. But police arrested her on a petty larceny charge, he said.

Giuliani, wearing black pants and a red sweater and with her arms folded, exited a police precinct last evening and quickly got into an SUV with a man and two women. She did not respond to reporters’ questions.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office had not decided whether to file formal charges against Giuliani, spokeswoman Erin Duggan said.

A message left with Rudy Giuliani’s office was not immediately returned. The arrest was first reported by the New York Post.

Caroline Giuliani is the younger of the former New York mayor’s two children with ex-wife Donna Hanover, a television reporter and actress. She is believed to be estranged from her prosecutor-turned-politician father.

In 2007, when Rudy Giuliani was seeking the Republican nomination for president, Caroline Giuliani listed herself as a member of Barack Obama’s Facebook group supporting his candidacy. But she left the group after an online magazine sent her an inquiry about it, and she didn’t comment on the election.

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