Caroline Giuliani arrested in New York for shoplifting

By Mikey O'Connell

August 4, 2010 11:45 PM ET

Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was allegedly caught trying to leave an Upper East Side Sephora with $150 in unpaid cosmetics.

The 20-year-old Harvard student was arrested for petty larceny, taken out of the store in cuffs and escorted to a local precinct.

A law enforcement sources tells the New York Daily News, "she was stopped by store security and a salesperson who observed this. They called police."

The store apparently didn't wish to press charges, once they learned her identity, but that didn't stop the officers called from taking her in.

Giuliani left the precinct with a desk appearance ticket, reportedly after two hours, accompanied by her mother, Donna Hanover.

The Manhattan District Attorney Office declined to comment on whether she'd be prosecuted, but a representative for the former mayor issued this statement: "This is a personal matter and Mayor Giuliani asks the media to respect the privacy of his daughter at this time."

(Do mayors really get to retain their titles after they're out of office?)

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