New York City cops took Caroline Giuliani, the 20-year-old daughter of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, into custody this afternoon after she was caught on camera shoplifting makeup at a cosmetics store near her Upper East Side home.
Giuliani, a student at Harvard University, was observed by security cameras boosting between $100 and $150 worth of cosmetics into her jacket pocket at a Sephora beauty-products store near 86th Street and Lexington Avenue shortly after 2 p.m. today. A store security guard and a salesperson who also witnessed the act confronted her shortly afterwards, detained her and called the police.
Caroline Giuliani taken into custody after store employees decline to press charges
While waiting for the cops to arrive, the store personnel apparently discovered that their perp was the daughter of the former mayor and had a change of heart. When the cops arrived, the employees told the police they did not wish to press charges, but by then, it was too late to reverse course.
Caroline Giuliani was taken to Manhattan's 19th Precinct for processing. The New York Post cites an anonymous source as saying that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's office will pursue a charge of petty larceny against her. Rudy Giuliani used his record as a tough-on-crime Federal prosecutor as a springboard to the mayor's office.
Caroline's mother and Rudy's second wife, former television news reporter Donna Hanover, was present at the precinct house when her daughter was processed. Dad, on the other hand, was absent. When in New York, Caroline lives with her mother in a house just blocks from the scene of the crime.
A spokesman for the former mayor issued the following statement to the press earlier this evening:
"This is a personal matter and Mayor Giuliani asks the media to respect the privacy of his daughter at this time."
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