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Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has been accused of calling actor Matt Damon a homophobic slur, based on newly released audio transcripts, reports Entertainment Weekly.

The transcripts, which were filed by the ex-mayor’s former assistant Noelle Dunphy, are part of a lawsuit claiming that Giuliani, 79, demanded sexual favors and created a “toxic” work environment.

In the relevant transcript, Dunphy, 43, can be heard asking the former Donald Trump lawyer which Hollywood A-listers were Republicans.

“Ain’t too many. Brad — not Brad Pitt. The other guy that looks like him,” responds Giuliani.

Dunphy asks her then-boss if he means Bradely Cooper to which Giuliani says, “No,” before adding, “Matt Damon is very liberal.”

“No, Matt Damon is a — Matt Damon is a f – g,” Giuliani continues. “Matt Damon is also 5’2, eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”


  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been accused of calling actor Matt Damon a homophobic slur, based on newly released audio transcripts BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been accused of calling actor Matt Damon a homophobic slur, based on newly released audio transcripts BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

  In a specific transcript, Dunphy, 43, (left) can be heard asking the former Donald Trump lawyer (right) which Hollywood A-listers were Republicans. Instagram / Noelle Dunphy In a specific transcript, Dunphy, 43, (left) can be heard asking the former Donald Trump lawyer (right) which Hollywood A-listers were Republicans. Instagram / Noelle Dunphy

In fact, according to the actor’s IMBD page, the “Jason Bourne” star is 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He’s also been married for 18 years to wife Luciana Barroso, with whom he shares three daughters, Isabella, Gia and Stella, and stepdaughter Alexia.

The Post reached out to Damon’s and Giuliani’s reps for comment.

The “Oppenheimer” actor, 52, is no stranger to controversies with that particular slur.


  “No, Matt Damon is a — Matt Damon is a f – g,” Giuliani continues. “Matt Damon is also 5’2, eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.” AP Photo/Patrick Semansky “No, Matt Damon is a — Matt Damon is a f – g,” Giuliani continues. “Matt Damon is also 5’2, eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.” AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

  The transcripts, which were filed by the ex-mayor’s former assistant Noelle Dunphy, are part of a lawsuit claiming that Giuliani, 79, demanded sexual favors and created a “toxic” work environment. Instagram / Noelle Dunphy The transcripts, which were filed by the ex-mayor’s former assistant Noelle Dunphy, are part of a lawsuit claiming that Giuliani, 79, demanded sexual favors and created a “toxic” work environment. Instagram / Noelle Dunphy

In August of 2021, Damon revealed that he retired the “F-slur for a homosexual” because it’s no longer used the same way as when he “was a kid.”

“I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie ‘Stuck on You,'” Damon told the Sunday Times. “She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, ‘I retire the F-slur!’ I understood.”

Damon followed up the bizarre confession by claiming that he’s never directed the slur toward anyone.


  In August of 2021, the “Oppenheimer” star revealed that he retired the “F-slur for a homosexual” because it’s no longer used the same way as when he “was a kid.” LADbible In August of 2021, the “Oppenheimer” star revealed that he retired the “F-slur for a homosexual” because it’s no longer used the same way as when he “was a kid.” LADbible

“During a recent interview, I recalled a discussion I had with my daughter where I attempted to contextualize for her the progress that has been made — though by no means completed — since I was growing up in Boston and, as a child, heard the word ‘f – g’ used on the street before I knew what it even referred to,” Damon said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.

“I explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003; she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly,” he continued.

“To my admiration and pride, she was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was. I not only agreed with her but thrilled at her passion, values and desire for social justice.”

“I have never called anyone ‘f - - - - t’ in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening. I do not use slurs of any kind. I have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining myself ‘one of the good guys’,” Damon rambled. “And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst.

“To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community,” he concluded.

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