Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has filed a slip-and-fall lawsuit against the City of Rye, New York, and Con Edison after tripping over a piece of plywood embedded in gravel on a local road. She's seeking $250,000 in damages.

The incident occurred on August 28 on Boston Post Road in Rye — roughly a mile from Pirro's five-bedroom home in the Westchester County city. According to police documents, the 74-year-old looked both ways before crossing the street, then went down hard.

"Next thing I know I am face planted on my right side."

According to the Oskaloosa Herald, Pirro told Rye police she suffered bleeding from her lips and hands, broken glasses, and an open scrape on her knee. Two men nearby rushed to help her to the sidewalk, where she sat on the grass to collect herself. When she walked back into the street, she discovered what had caught her foot.

"After a few minutes, I walked back into the street and saw a protrusion sticking out of gravel where I fell."

Rye police responded the following day and photographed the road. A responding officer noted the wood was "speculated to be a part of construction work on the road." The lawsuit names Con Edison, whose workers reportedly laid the gravel, as a co-defendant alongside the city.

The Lawsuit

An amended complaint was filed Wednesday in Westchester County. The filing alleges negligence by both the city and Con Edison, claiming Pirro sustained injuries beyond what she initially reported to police at the scene:

"As a result of defendants' negligence, Ms. Pirro sustained serious personal injuries, including but not limited to bruises and contusions to the head, eye, face, and shoulder areas, together with pain, discomfort, and limitation of movement."

The lawsuit further states that Pirro "continues to experience pain and suffering." Three days after the fall, she appeared on Fox News Sunday on August 31, 2025, with no visible bruising on her face.

Both Con Edison and the Rye Corporation Counsel declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. Pirro is represented in the case by her ex-husband, Al Pirro.

The Bigger Picture

There's no getting around it — this is an awkward story for someone who holds one of the most prominent law enforcement positions in the country. Slip-and-fall lawsuits carry a cultural stigma, fair or not, and Pirro's critics will use this to take shots. That's predictable and irrelevant to whether the claim has merit.

Here's what's actually worth paying attention to: a piece of plywood buried in loose gravel on a public road, left behind after what appears to be a utility construction job, took down a pedestrian. If a 74-year-old trips on a hazard that shouldn't have been there — on a road maintained by a city and torn up by a utility company — filing a claim isn't frivolous. It's how municipal accountability works. Governments and corporations don't fix dangerous conditions out of goodwill. They fix them when liability forces their hand.

Conservatives are rightly skeptical of a litigation culture that enriches trial lawyers and clogs courts with nonsense. But there's a difference between a manufactured injury claim and a woman who face-planted on a road hazard that a police officer confirmed was likely left behind by construction crews. The question isn't whether Pirro is too prominent to sue her city. It's whether the City of Rye and Con Edison left a dangerous condition in a public roadway and did nothing about it.

A Familiar Name on the Filing

The involvement of Al Pirro as counsel adds a personal wrinkle. Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband — who was pardoned by Donald Trump during his first term after a series of tax-related crimes — is handling the case. Whatever the history between the two, attorney-client relationships don't require a happy marriage. It does guarantee the story will generate more tabloid interest than the underlying facts probably warrant.

What Comes Next

Pirro was confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on August 2 — less than a month before the fall. She previously served three terms as Westchester County district attorney and ran for New York State Attorney General in 2006, losing to Andrew Cuomo. She knows the legal system from every angle: judge, prosecutor, candidate, and now plaintiff.

With both defendants declining to comment, this case will play out in Westchester County court and in the press simultaneously. The $250,000 figure is modest by personal injury standards. The real damage, if any, will be reputational — and only if the facts don't hold up.

For now, the facts are straightforward. A road hazard existed. A woman fell. She got hurt. She filed a lawsuit. Everything else is noise.