Rudolph W. Giuliani was injured Saturday night when the vehicle he was riding in was rear-ended on a New Hampshire highway.

By Katherine Rosman and Michael Rothfeld

Sept. 1, 2025

Updated 7:31 p.m. ET

Rudolph W. Giuliani was released from the hospital on Monday afternoon after a car crash in Manchester, N.H., on Saturday night, according to his security chief and a friend.

Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and lawyer for President Trump, was in high spirits after leaving the hospital, said the friend, Arthur L. Aidala, who spoke to him by phone. “I have some healing to do, but I’m otherwise in great shape,” Mr. Giuliani said, according to Mr. Aidala.

Mr. Giuliani, 81, intended to recuperate in Manchester but did not specify where, Mr. Aidala said.

Mr. Giuliani suffered fractured vertebra when he was rear-ended while traveling as a passenger on Interstate 93 near Manchester.

“A little car accident won’t be slowing him down,” said Michael Ragusa, the security chief for Mr. Giuliani, who led New York through the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

On social media, Mr. Ragusa tried to dispel speculation that the crash was an intentional attempt to harm Mr. Giuliani, who was disbarred and has drawn criticism for trying to overturn results of the 2020 election for Mr. Trump.

“This was not a targeted attack,” Mr. Ragusa wrote on X. “We ask everyone to respect Mayor Giuliani’s privacy and recovery, and refrain from spreading unfounded conspiracy theories.”

The accident occurred shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday, New Hampshire State Police said. Theodore Goodman, Mr. Giuliani’s driver, was driving a Ford Bronco northbound on Interstate 93 when a Honda HR-V rear-ended their vehicle. The police identified the Honda’s driver as Lauren Kemp, 19, of Concord.

All three had non-life-threatening injuries, the police said.

Before the crash, Mr. Giuliani’s car had initially been heading southbound on I-93 when he and Mr. Goodman were flagged down just south of Exit 9N by a woman who reported that she had been involved in a domestic violence incident, the state police said in a statement Monday. They stopped, and Mr. Goodman reported the incident to law enforcement just after 9 p.m. He and Mr. Giuliani remained there until state troopers arrived to investigate, the police said.

After telling the troopers what they had seen, Mr. Goodman and Mr. Giuliani continued driving and got off the highway at a nearby exit, but soon got back on heading the other way, northbound, according to the police.

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They were hit from behind by Ms. Kemp almost directly across from the spot where they had earlier stopped to help the woman, the police said.

In text messages with a New York Times reporter on Sunday, Ms. Kemp seemed unaware that Mr. Giuliani had been in the car she hit. Ms. Kemp said she was not seriously hurt, “just sore and two stitches under my eyebrow.”

She did not respond to additional requests for comment Monday.

The collision sent both cars into the median, and the state troopers attending to the domestic incident on the south side of the highway crossed over to help, police said. No charges have been filed, and the crash is under investigation.

Investigators do not believe that Ms. Kemp had any connection to the reported domestic violence incident, and they are examining whether the crash may have been caused by driver distraction related to the events across the road, police said. Investigators also are reviewing troopers’ dashboard and body cameras, they said.

The location of the hospital where Mr. Giuliani received treatment was not disclosed.

On Monday afternoon, President Trump did not mention the car crash but announced on social media that he intended to award Mr. Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a post on Truth Social, the president described Mr. Giuliani as “the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City” and “an equally great American Patriot.”

Mr. Trump hasn’t always been as supportive of Mr. Giuliani in times of trouble. Despite encouraging Mr. Giuliani to challenge the 2020 election results, Mr. Trump refused to pay for his legal work, arguing that he should not have to because Mr. Giuliani had lost the cases. Mr. Trump’s advisers rebuffed efforts by Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer to seek compensation, though Mr. Trump eventually appeared at a fund-raiser to help pay the former mayor’s bills.

Mr. Giuliani served as mayor of New York City from 1994 through 2001. A post from his social media account on Sunday afternoon thanked his business partner, Maria Ryan, who is a nurse practitioner in New Hampshire, for “overseeing” his care.

Mr. Giuliani and Ms. Ryan attended a New Hampshire Fisher Cats baseball game in Manchester on Saturday before the crash, according to a video from a local news website.

Mr. Giuliani has faced a series of legal and financial problems in recent years. He filed for bankruptcy in New York in 2023. But after he refused to comply with basic court requirements, the case was dismissed, leaving his assets vulnerable to his many creditors.

He became a national hero after helping the city navigate the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. He ran for president in 2008, but his candidacy never took off.

Then he became a key adviser to Mr. Trump and a pariah in many corners of New York. He was disbarred from practicing law in New York last year after being indicted in Arizona and Georgia in cases involving efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He had faced a $148 million judgment granted to two Georgia election workers he defamed while trying to help Mr. Trump overturn the election; the case was settled in January.

Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Maggie Haberman contributed reporting. Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.

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