(Andrew) Giuliani is a Jerk, Says Source

Back when he was seven years-old and fighting for attention at the podium of his father's mayoral inauguration, it may have been harsh to call Andrew Giuliani a brat. Now he's twenty-two and suing the Duke Golf team for getting kicked off by coach O.D. Vincent after several incidents of bad behavior that included throwing an apple at one of his teammates.

Andrew and his mother Donna Hanover met with reporters at the driving range on Randall's Island to discuss the suit filed last week. Hanover says that the photo above of the UCLA Golf team for Golf Digest allowed by Vincent back when he led their program shows the coach's poor sense of judgment, but members of the UCLA squad said there was no pressure from their former coach (one player said, "We were very fit and you could see it.").

Giuliani is suing to regain his spot on the team and the scholarship from Duke which included lifetime access to the university's state of the art golfing facility. Within the lawsuit is an email to Giuliani from five of his former teammates saying they no longer wanted him on the team. And a source tells the Post Giuliani seemed "entitled" and "got a little pushy" after Vincent discussed the athlete code of conduct with players.

This fall will be Andrew's final year at Duke, after which he says, "My plans are still to become a professional golfer."

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By Billy Parker in News on July 27, 2008 5:29 PM

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ides_of_march

Nice to see institutions of higher learning are turning out quality gay porn.

zodak

the jerk store called...

agdthefan

When he was still in high school and living at home (directly across the street from me) I ran into him often. He'd be out walking his dog Goalie and I'd be walking my dog. The dogs would play together and he and I would have the bs chats you have with other dog people. He was always polite, always smiling and even funny. And when I got hit by a biker he was right, helped me out, grabbed my dog was generally incredibly helpful. It's easy to write off a "known" person as a jerk but I'm betting the rest of the Duke team has it's fair share of douches.

JenChungsBaby

He was the 12th best golfer on a team with 13 players and the coach wanted to trim the overall number of players on the team. Oh well, he still gets to go to Duke and live a priveleged life for the rest of his existance.

twakum

Rudy's kid, or DONNA's kid? I mean really, she's one f-ing Diva herself....

bagelman

i wonder if 9/11 had anything to do with the coach's decision

Jerky

Considering his amateur golf ranking, I guess "becoming a professional golfer" = graduating and playing alot of golf while living off his parent's investments.

Snoopy

This is a prime example of having two parents that neither one has anything to do with parenting or gives a shit about them. Donna Hanover, a bitch on wheels. Rudi marries his cousin? Come on gang, no wonder the Pillsbury dough boy wants to relate to his team mates. He has no real family.

Quite a few on this blog constantly mention the fatherless black boy and how he turned out wrong. Well here is a good example of a fatherless white boy that turned out wrong.

Think2wice

You can tell from that smug expression that he's got a plush job and a posh apartment waiting for him after graduation.

I don't know him, but I already want him to toss my salad.

Book Smart

He was such a brat as a child - hopping around on the podium behind his father during the inauguration, in desperate need of a smack. No surprise that he has been coddled and indulged all his life and now we have this grown up brat.

NannyState

The "apple" falls about as far as this pudgy Poindexter can sissy hurl it. At the end of the day, all this turd needs is Dad, writing another trust check so little Junior can stay current on those menu changes at TGI Fridays.

matty

He's the waspiest looking wop I've ever seen.

breaknight

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

Snoopy

Come on people the guy constantly shoots in the low seventies on the front nine. Give him some slack.

babyhitler

You know what they say. the apple doesn't fall from the motherfucking dickhead asshole piece of shit cumguzzler.

anno

a chip off the old blockhead

hasoferet

Looks like the golf ball doesn't fall far from the tee.

Peter

As I understand it, Baby Rudy's golf scores aren't even remotely close enough for what he'd need to make the PGA tour.

Kevin Walsh

Andrew might well take after his father, but the clowns in the picture above don't seem much better.

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Mr Mel

Andrew, the last time, I asked if you could play Lacrosse. This time my advice is, forget about being a professional golfer and go to law school so you can annoy many more people.

Fritzdecat

W'ell if they make another Animal House remake he would be great playing the part of Nedermaier.

In the meantime he might consider shooting his barber or at least hurling apples at him/her...

Snoopy

He threw an apple at a team mate? What kind of things are going on down there at Duke when someone throws an apple?

When five of your team mates don't want you around, that is reason enough not to be around. They should have thrown him in the University pool fully clothed with cinder blocks on his ankles with the lights off at night. In the shallow end just to see him die of a heart attack.

slappy

Repeat after me. "Sorry, I can be a dick, I know... I will try to be a better team player."

McGG

Just get over it you little shit. When you stand out for being an 'entitled" little punk from a school where everyone is an entitled punk, then you've got a problem.

bornbrednewyorker

Like father, like son.

JacqueMehoff

there's no "i" in Team. even in golf.

five teammates don't want him on the team, The Team comes first.

fakenewyorker

a ginger, a giuliani, and an ass

Mike B.

Eh. The kid's had an incredibly weird life and only one functional parent; I'll give him a pass for dumb college-age shit like this.

emilydickinson

That's a very funny headline. This whole story is such a farce, he's like the rich kid who gets his comeuppance in a Scooby-Doo cartoon. Golf is a gentleman's sport, there's no suing because you're a creep.