Rudy Giuliani's Diva Style Tour Rider Includes $47,000 A Flight Private Jet Transportation

[Mark E. Smith]

The Smoking Gun

Rudy Giuliani: No Free Speech

Lucrative contracts depicts GOP hopeful as image-conscious diva

We've previously posted the tour riders of Dick Cheney and John Kerry, but those two
pols look like pikers compared to the high-rolling, diva-like Rudolph Giuliani, wannabe
Republican presidential candidate. The former New York mayor has been banking a
whopping $100,000 per speech to corporations, trade groups, and university audiences,
according to his standard appearance contract. The document ... notes that Giuliani, 62,
requires private air transportation to his gigs. But, the contract states, any old plane
won't do: "Please note that the private aircraft MUST BE a Gulfstream IV or better." Such
a jet sells for about $30 million, in case you're wondering. Giuliani's speech contract also
requires him to be lodged in a two-bedroom hotel suite, which is to be flanked by rooms
occupied by his security team. Rudy's suite must be registered in the name of a
Representative of the Washington Speaker's Bureau, which arranges Giuliani appearances.
And Giuliani is very picky about how he is to be photographed at gigs, apparently
concerned that "direct, on-camera flash bulbs" result in none-too-flattering images. He
also imposes restrictions on press coverage of his appearances, during which he speaks
for 45 minutes and answers audience questions for 15 minutes. A copy of Giuliani's
contract was released by Oklahoma State University, where he spoke last May for
$100,000 (and cost the school an additional $47,000 in jet expenses).

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0216071giuliani1.html

[Colobo]

1. Rudy is a very ugly woman

[kurth]

2. Why did a public university spend $147,000 on this asshole

"Principles of Leadership" my ass.

[Olney Blue]

3. Someone obviously violated his photography rules when they took that pic.

[Mark E. Smith]

4. The rule only applies to when he is not made up

When the proper couture is in place Rudy is always ready for the camera.