Rudy Giuliani, the confidant of President Donald Trump and the onetime mayor of New York City, was admitted to Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach on May 3 with pneumonia and was subsequently intubated, a source told The Palm Beach Post.
Giuliani’s spokesperson, Ted Goodman, confirmed May 4 that Giuliani had been placed on a ventilator but is now breathing on his own. He said Giuliani was diagnosed with pneumonia complicated by restrictive airway disease, which Goodman attributed to Giuliani’s presence at ground zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“The virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition,” Goodman said. “He is now breathing on his own, with his family and primary medical provider at his side.”
Giuliani, who turns 82 this month, coughed repeatedly during his online show “America’s Mayor Live” on May 1, telling viewers he was “a little under the weather.” Goodman said Giuliani remains in critical but stable condition.
Good Samaritan is a 333-bed acute care hospital on North Flagler Drive, part of the Palm Beach Health Network. Network spokesperson Andrew Lofholm declined to comment when reached on May 4.
Giuliani owns a lakefront condominium within walking distance of Worth Avenue in Palm Beach and declared Florida his permanent domicile in 2024. He voted in West Palm Beach for the first time in October of that year, casting his ballot at Gaines Park Community Center.
Good Samaritan is the closest hospital to the midtown area of Palm Beach, half a mile north of the Flagler Memorial Bridge, and is a frequent stop for those leaving the island town for medical care.
Giuliani rose to national prominence in the 1980s as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted organized-crime bosses and Wall Street traders. Elected New York City mayor in 1993, he earned the nickname “America’s Mayor” in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks.
However, his reputation eroded steadily in the years that followed. Giuliani ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008 and eventually reinvented himself as a right-wing media personality and Trump loyalist.
He served as Trump’s personal attorney during the president’s first term and became the public face of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That work later cost him his law licenses in New York and Washington, D.C., and formed the basis of defamation findings and court sanctions. Trump pardoned him in 2025.
In a post to Truth Social in the wake of Giuliani’s hospitalization, Trump called Giuliani “a True Warrior and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”
Hannah Phillips covers criminal justice at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at hphillips@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism and subscribe today.
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