Caroline Rose Giuliani (born 1989) is an American filmmaker, political activist, and writer. She is the daughter of

Rudy Giuliani Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (, ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 198 ...

, the former

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. Giuliani has received national media attention for publicly disagreeing with and criticizing her

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father's politics and political endorsements.

Early life and family

Giuliani was born in 1989 to

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, a journalist and television personality, and

, an attorney and

politician. She is of Italian descent on her father's side. Her paternal great-grandparents, Rodolfo and Evangelina Giuliani, were from

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. Her great-uncle, Tullio "Leo" D'Avanzo, operated a

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ing and gambling ring at a restaurant in

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. Her brother,

Andrew Giuliani Andrew Harold Giuliani (born January 30, 1986) is an American political commentator and golfer. He was a special assistant to the President and associate director of the Office of Public Liaison, during the Trump Administration, Trump administrat ...

, served as

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and Associate Director of the

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for former U.S. President

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. Prior to her birth, Giuliani's father had served as the

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and as the

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. In 1993 her father was elected

, and the family moved into

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in 1994, the official mayoral residence in

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. In October 2000 her parents filed for divorce and her father moved out of Gracie Mansion in August of the following year. Giuliani continued to live at Gracie Mansion with her mother and brother until her father's term ended in December 2001. The family relocated to a home in East

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. Her parents' divorce was finalized in 2002. In 2003 her father married

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, a nurse and medical sales executive, and her mother married Edwin Oster, an attorney. In 2018 her father joined President Donald Trump's legal team. Giuliani has been estranged from her father since her parents' divorce. Giuliani was raised in the Catholic faith and was baptized by Monsignor

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Trinity School, a private school in Manhattan that is part of the

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, graduating in 2007. She attended

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, where she studied theatre and film production. At Harvard, Giuliani served as the experimental theater coordinator of the

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and interned with documentary filmmaker

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. Giuliani also trained with the

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in New York, the

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in London, and Collaborative Arts Project 21, a partnership with

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Career

Giuliani is a filmmaker, writer, and director creating work focusing on mental health and human sexuality. Giuliani began her work in the film industry as a

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, working on the

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's 2012-2013 supernatural drama ''

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'' and 2013-2014 sitcom ''

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'', and

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's 2013-2014 sitcom ''

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''. After working as a production assistant, she became the assistant of Steve Beeks, the Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of

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. She later worked for Gotham Group as an assistant to producer Jeremy Bell. She was promoted by

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and began running her own office as a junior manager and television coordinator. After leaving Gotham, she worked as the director's assistant on

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's 2019 romantic comedy '' Someone Great''. In 2020 she created the psychological thriller film ''Or (Someone) Else'' about a woman struggling in an abusive relationship and the mental health ramifications of repressed anger.

Personal life

Giuliani is

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and polyamorous. She previously identified as

bisexual Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whi ...

. On August 4, 2010, she was arrested by

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and charged with petty larceny for shoplifting from the

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store on East 86th Street. She was detained and later released. Represented by attorney Michael F. Bachner, Giuliani took a plea deal to perform one day of community service and had her criminal record cleared after a probation period of six months.

Political views

Despite coming from a prominent

family, Giuliani has supported Democratic candidates. During the

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, while her father was seeking the Republican nomination, she joined a

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group supporting

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called ''One Million Strong for Barack'', and posted on her profile that she was a "liberal." Giuliani left the Facebook group after online activity was reported in the media. She supported

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in the

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, while her father was a vocal supporter of

. In 2016, when questioned about her political beliefs contradicting with her father's, she stated, "he knows and is fully comfortable with it and thinks I have a right to my opinion." On September 30, 2020, Giuliani

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a response to a tweet made by her father accusing

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of being a liar. She stated, "I, for one, do not support spreading false gossip about a politician’s child." On October 15, 2020, Giuliani wrote a piece for '' Vanity Fair'' titled "Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris", calling for American voters to end

's "reign of terror" and encouraging them to "elect a compassionate and decent president." In response to her father being a Trump supporter, Giuliani stated, "I may not be able to change my father's mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office." She went on to say, "if being the daughter of a polarizing mayor who became the president's personal bulldog has taught me anything, it is that corruption starts with 'yes-men' and women, the cronies who create an echo chamber of lies and subservience to maintain their proximity to power." She accused the

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of stoking "the injustice that already permeated" society, and criticized Trump's handling of the

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and his policies that rolled back protections for the

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community, women, immigrants, people with disabilities, and people of color. She went on to endorse former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Senator

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for the

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, and praised Biden's plans to combat climate change. Giuliani later tweeted a photo of her and Harris. On November 24, 2020, Giuliani wrote a second piece for ''Vanity Fair'', titled "Attention, Trumpworld: Self-Care Tips for Accepting the Reality That Trump Lost".

References

External links

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