The election technology company Dominion Voting Systems settled a defamation lawsuit against Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former lawyer for President Trump and former mayor of New York City, according to court records and the company.
The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice on Friday, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
In a statement, Dominion Voting Systems confirmed that a settlement had been reached, but did not offer any details on the terms because it was a confidential agreement.
A lawyer for Mr. Giuliani confirmed the settlement and declined to comment further. Though he is known as an outspoken political figure, Mr. Giuliani did not appear to have offered any comment on the outcome on his social media pages.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2021, originally sought $1.3 billion in damages. It accused Mr. Giuliani of carrying out “a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion” made up of “demonstrably false” allegations.
The lawsuit was based on more than 50 statements that Mr. Giuliani had made at legislative hearings, on social media, on his podcast and in the conservative news media, where he spun the narrative that Dominion, one of the biggest voting machine manufacturers in the country, had plotted to flip votes to favor Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the presidential election.
The settlement came just over a week after a judge ruled that Mr. Giuliani must pay more than $1.3 million to lawyers who represented him in numerous criminal investigations that resulted from his work for Mr. Trump.
Earlier this year, Mr. Giuliani had settled a separate lawsuit by two Georgia election workers for an undisclosed sum, after having been ordered to pay $11 million over his claims that they had helped to steal the 2020 presidential election.
In the past two years alone, Mr. Giuliani has been indicted and accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election; filed for bankruptcy under the strain of legal bills; was disbarred in New York and Washington; and, last month, was injured in a New Hampshire car crash.
This month, the president said that Mr. Giuliani would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Rylee Kirk reports on breaking news, trending topics and major developing stories for The Times.
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