Rudy Giuliani's 2 Children: What to Know About Andrew and Caroline

Mar. 15, 2025

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Rudy Giulianiwas once hailed as “America’s mayor” and considered a presidential hopeful; now,Donald Trump’s onetime attorney is facingmore than a dozen felony chargesin relation to interference in the 2020 presidential election.

Outside of his political fall from grace, Giuliani’s personal life has also experienced ups and downs — including three marriages, each ending in divorce. But his relationship with Donna Hanover resulted in two children: a son, Andrew Giuliani, 37, and a daughter, Caroline Giuliani, 33.

Giuliani first met Hanover, a television news anchor, on a blind date in Miami in 1982,theNew York Timesreported. At the time, Giuliani was on a trial separation from his first wife, Regina Peruggi, who was also his second cousin. Six weeks later, Giuliani proposed to Hanover in Disney World after requesting a legal separation from Peruggi. After his first marriage was officially annulled in 1983, Giuliani and Hanover were married in New York City in April 1984.

“It was a whirlwind,” Hanover toldNew York Magazineabout her relationship with Giuliani. “He was smart and interesting. And I wanted children. I was 32 at the time.”

Hanover got her wish, and the couple had two children during their 16-year marriage: Andrew in 1986 and Caroline in 1989. However, Giuliani and Hanover split in 2000 after rumors of infidelity on the mayor’s part. Their divorce was finalized in 2002 after a lengthy and contentious court battle.

Both Andrew, a political commentator, and Caroline, a filmmaker, have made headlines in recent years in relation to their father’s connection to Trump. Giuliani, who in 2021 had hislaw license suspendedand was sued overfalse 2020 election claims, has been a close ally and adviser of the former president — even serving on hispersonal legal teamwhen he was in the White House.

Caroline, an outspoken Democrat,wrote an anti-Trump essayforVanity Fairin 2020, imploring American voters to “stand with me in the fight to end Donald Trump’s reign of terror” and “vote this toxic administration out of office.” In the same essay, Caroline was also critical of her father’s role in Trump’s camp, referring to him as “a polarizing mayor who became the president’s personal bulldog.”

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From their childhood spent in Gracie Mansion to their current political leanings, here is everything to know about Rudy Giuliani’s two children, Andrew Giuliani and Caroline Giuliani.

Andrew Harold Giuliani, 38

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Giuliani and Hanover welcomed their first child, a son namedAndrew Harold Giuliani, on Jan. 30, 1986, in N.Y.C. At the time, his father, then 41, was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, while Hanover, then 35, was an anchor at local news station WPIX. According totheNew York Times, the couple were “overjoyed” at becoming parents.

“When it happens late, you sort of appreciate it a little more,” Giuliani told theTimes.

As a teenager, Andrew made a name for himself as a talented golfer: At 15, he played in his father’s place alongsideTiger Woodsin the 2001 Buick Classic pro-am tournament, perNBC. He later earned a spot onDuke University’s golf team.

Andrew Giuliani and Rudy Giuliani during a news conference on June 7, 2022.Mary Altaffer/AP

Mary Altaffer/AP

Andrew, who hadnever run for political officebefore, described the race against then-Gov.Andrew Cuomoas “the fight of the century,” referencing the two families’long political legaciesin the state.

“Giuliani vs. Cuomo. Holy smokes,” he toldtheNew York Post. “It’s Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. We can sell tickets at Madison Square Garden.”

In his personal life, Andrew wed real estate executive Živilė Rezgytė in July 2017 in N.Y.C. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter namedGrace Juzefa Giuliani, on Nov. 29, 2021. Announcing her birth onInstagram, Andrew called his daughter the “greatest joy we could ever imagine.”

However, the new father came under fire in March 2022 when he referenced his 4-month-old daughter’s genitals while making anti-transgender remarks at a rally, perBusiness Insider.

Caroline Rose Giuliani, 35

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In August 1989, Giuliani and Hanover welcomed their second child, a daughter namedCaroline Rose Giuliani. At the time, her father was in the midst of his first campaign for N.Y.C. mayor. (He eventuallylost in a close race.) After his victory in 1993, Caroline lived in the mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion, from ages 4 to 12.

According to Caroline, she has had a complicated relationship with her father since she was 12 years old — around the same time that her parents divorced. In a 2020 essay forVanity Fair, she wrote, “Around the age of 12, I would occasionally get into debates with my father, probably before I was emotionally equipped to handle such carnage.”

She continued, “It was disheartening to feel how little power I had to change his mind, no matter how logical and above-my-pay-grade my arguments were.”

The tension between Giuliani and both of his children continued throughout their teenage years. The former mayor missed Andrew’s high school graduation in 2005 and was noticeably absent from Caroline’s school plays for more than a year,theNew York Timesreported in 2007. But while Andrew and his father eventually repaired their relationship, Caroline has publicly disagreed with the disgraced former Trump attorney — particularly over politics.

Donna Hanover and Caroline Giuliani at the NICOLE MILLER Spring 2007 Fashion Show.Scott Rudd/Patrick McMullan/Getty

Scott Rudd/Patrick McMullan/Getty

Caroline alsoopenly supportedJoe BidenandKamala Harris’ campaign in 2020. In addition to personal social media posts, Caroline’sVanity Fairessay urged voters to support the Biden ticket. She wrote that she and her father were “multiverses apart, politically and otherwise.”

Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Caroline published another essay inVanity Fairannouncing her support for Harris' campaign. Since Giuliani continued to endorse Harris' opponent, Caroline wrote that she was “grieving the loss of my dadto Trump.”

“I know that some people may question whether I truly care about my father, since another Trump presidency could theoretically mitigate some of the problems he’s facing,” she wrote. “It distresses me to think that my dad might even wonder this. But if you zoom out, Trump being the president was the worst thing that ever happened to my dad, to my family, and to our nation’s modern history.”

Beyond her political passions, Caroline graduated from Harvard University with a degree in film production. According toher resumé, she worked as an executive assistant at both The Gotham Group and Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, as well as an on-set assistant for ABC’sTrophy Wifeand666 Park Avenue, HBO’sHello Ladiesand Netflix’s feature filmSomeone Great. Her current work is as a “filmmaker in the LGBTQ+ community who tells stories about mental health, sexuality and other stigmatized issues,” according to her 2020Vanity Fairessay.

Caroline opened up abouther own sexuality and path to polyamoryin anotherVanity Fairessay, published in March 2021. In it, she shared her experience as a “unicorn” — a third partner for couples looking to have a threesome — and how she came to identify as pansexual.

“I am attracted to people based on their presence and energy regardless of their biological sex, gender or gender identity,” she wrote in the essay.

Caroline continued: “I know now that I am empathetic, radically open-minded, profoundly adventurous and fiercely committed to telling stories that reduce the stigma surrounding sexuality and mental health.”

source: people.com