TMZ is reporting today that a federal judge has frozen all of Tom Girardi’s assets. Clearly, Erika and Tom saw this coming and that is why Erika filed for divorce. She was trying to leave the sinking ship. Tom’s law firm and been spiraling and I believe his last partner jumped ship recently as well. He is also suing Tom for over half a million dollars. But, that is the least of Tom’s worries at the moment.Back in October of 2018, a Boeing 737 Max airplane in the Lion Air fleet crashed killing everyone onboard due to a mechanical issue. Tom Girardi approached the surviving family members of the crash to be their attorney in negotiations with Boeing. It is unclear how much the families were awarded in total. However, there is at least two million dollars missing from the client account. It’s also unclear to me if Girardi even set up a client account of if funds were commingled with the law firm accounts. That is illegal. The judge that froze his assets today also referred the case to the US Attorney’s Office for possible criminal investigation.
It Gets Even Worse For Tom Girardi
Lawyers for Girardi claim that the law firm currently has only, $15,000 in their bank account. They are unable to pay the clients the outstanding two million dollars.
Even more shocking his lawyers claim that they have concerns about his mental capacity. They don’t think he understands how much trouble he is in. His lawyers have asked the judge to require a mental evaluation of Tom Girardi before any court battles take place.
To make matter worse, Girardi’s partners in a venture called 1126 Wilshire filed legal docs to dissolve the partnership. Those partners claim he “fraudulently encumbered property the partnership owns” worth around $7.5 million.
It’s not looking like a Merry Christmas for Tom Girardi this year.
What are the consequences for Erika in this situation if she’s in on the fraud?
I heard that they funneled monies to her LLC.
Darn it! He seemed like one of the good RH husbands. Sad to hear this.
Fuck a duck!
Aw, do I have to? I just not in the mood, I have a headache.
Yikes! He’s managed to get himself in a fine kettle of fish!
This is going to look bad for Erika. I don’t know how it won’t.
She is part and product of the whole mess.
Greed gets you nowhere, I’ve yet to see a good result.
I have to say shame on whatever reason since the tragedy was beyond horrible. I wonder how much damage she’s done by flaunting Erika Jayne.
What sadly is not surprising, is this story. Sad as it is.
One last thought, she will be as guilty to those devastated as he is. Accident occured, Erika Jayne blew up. The money suddenly appeared. I’m angry.
Just watch 20/20, heartbreaking.
Yes it does look bad that she has told on the show how much it costs to keep up her glam squad, clothes, etc. She also talked about their 2 planes on the show. This is a bit like deja vu. Teresa Guiduce flaunted her spending and look where it got her. I’m sure Erika’s traveling glam squad, their expensive Christmas gifts on social media last yr, etc has all been salt in the wound for the plane crash victims’ families. Of course, she won’t be able to discuss ongoing litigation on the show, not that she seems like she would be much of an open book anyway.
I for one hope she gets fired. Was hoping that they would fire Erica and Rinna along with Teddi. But hopefully these people that they ripped off gets their money. Sad that he took advantage of a terrible terrible tragedy. Shame on both Tom and Erica.
He’s just another ambulance chasing con man. How disappointing. I’m not sure if Erika knew anything before the fact, but I would guess she knew after the fact, and while moneys were being transferred to her accounts. The wealthy get wealthier by cheating the poor and injured. That fact makes me angry. Erika should be dropped from Bravo IMO.
I’m sure she is hoping to keep her spot on the show. She will need the income now more than ever. Her story could be separation/divorce.
Exactly. She’s now good friends with Lisa Rinna, which I think is interesting on the show. Rinna has a lot of personality!
Erika isn’t good friends with anybody.
This is a terrible story and an example of how greed can destroy you.
Amen. Tom Girardi milked his Erin Brokovitch fame ad nauseum. Erika has a mess to clean up to clear her name.
This appears to be heading to a MUCH WORSE place. Thanks for the update.
I bet RHOBH will show nothing next season
I don’t see her coming back next season at this point. That’s not from a source that’s just my speculation. I’ll follow up with source once I catch my breath.
I hope you’re right as I feel like that is the right thing to happen. I don’t want to see her sourpuss face anymore.
I hope she’s gone. I never warmed to her. Are there no rich people willing to be on this show who are both interesting and, well, not assholes? Or at least endearing assholes?
I wasn’t in the first wave of Erika fans… then I really loved her eventually, and over the years I’ve been less enamored.
But this is bad. I don’t see her coming back from this. I don’t love her or hate her, but I’m really hoping she was not involved in this. That would be atrocious.
I think Tom kept Erika at an arms length distance from his work, however, she sure did benefit from all the money!
atrocious is the best word
I agree. I hope she doesn’t come back Bc it’s annoying when you know all this stuff is going on in their actual lives & they gloss over it on the show.
I really wonder if she found out and bounced. I’ve known someone who embezzled a million dollars over the course of three years and their spouse knew NOTHING. They lied about their position at work, funded their lifestyle and now she’s in prison because of it after last year leaving her spouse and children with absolutely nothing ,and they evicted because she ended up lying about them paying a mortgage, when it was really rent. She brought the family in under the guise they were purchasing somethng and it was indeed something else. It was a mess and I can see how someone in a lesser financial position in a relationship can be duped by someone. I used to love her, and I’m in the same boat as you, I’m wondering if she was in the dark as well though, and hoping she wasn’t involved.
Lisa Rinna says Erika will talk about it. If she’s innocent she’ll want to verbalize that he duped her.
She won’t talk about IT. She will talk about the divorce and lay down some sort of story.
I don’t know why I find this all so surprising but I really do. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to read more of this kind of stuff about PK and Dorit but, Tom really surprises me. I honestly thought he was smarter than this. I thought I was jaded enough at this point. I guess not.
Damn, sometimes it is easier to just be lower middle class (me).
I truly giggled at your comment. And thought me too!
Glad to know I’m not the only one! I may not have much money, but I know exactly how much every bill is and how much money is in the bank at all times. I know when I have an extra 100$ to spend and when to save that 100$.
LOL. Yup. I agree. No drama re money cause there isn’t any. Happy holidays to all of us in that same boat!
Same. It makes me live closer to the cross, as they say. 😀
Staying broke is the best option in life honestly. Anybody wants the 23 cents in my bank account…feel free!
Haha, same, girl. We’ve got some land but that’s really it. Modest means. And my great-grandmother’s china that my boys and their wives won’t ever want!
Perdue University did a study and found the ideal income for life satisfaction was 95,000 and the ideal income for emotional satisfaction is 60,000 -75,000 above 105,000 and satisfaction levels start to drop.
Not that that has much to do with he show but your comment reminded me of the study.
The entire situation is incredibly sad.
I truly giggled at your comment. And thought me too!
I am so curious as to what your sources have for us TT! Rinna said EJ will absolutely discuss but that is full of shit hyping for the show I would think
Can they freeze her assets too ?
Possibly. She seems neck deep in this mess. I think she’s hoping the divorce filing will get her out of it. I presume a forensic accountant will be appointed by the court to go through their finances. That money went somewhere.
They can IF they have probable cause to believe she was also involved either during the initial fraud or attempting to cover it up. Signed- Retired Criminal Investigator of Financial Crimes….
Can Erika be prosecuted? I think her lifestyle was ostentatious and ugly. I will not support any show she is on now. I imagine PK and Dorett are next. Sad! 😞
Yes, but only if they determine if she either actively participated in the fraud or helped to cover it up after the fact.
I remember her saying that they didn’t have a pre-nup.
The judge already said Erika can’t sell her used clothes on the website, because they prob’ly were bought with the blood money. She needs to keep her RHOBH job. She’s not going to want to go back to cocktail waitressing, after building her brands. How humiliating if she’s innocent, which I think she is.
Damn. Not unexpected actually. She flaunted it all. Lady? Get real. Nobody needs to travel with a glam squad making you look like Halloween every night. She exhibited a vulgar display of wealth and not one redeeming quality. Now go pat your puss in a tiny house.
Bwahahaha!
😂😂😂
I think she is probably a little too late in getting out and her finances are definitely going to be impacted but I dont know how you feel next season and not cover it.
Erica is a con artist
I sent a gift to her pr people in 2017 and she got it, didn’t thank me AT ALL.
her pr people think shes madonna. girl bye
enjoy your diamond this season, because its up for grabs next season… SHADE
He will most certainly be disbarred at this point. The money awarded in the Boeing lawsuit should’ve been in the client trust account and not touched.
My firm had a case against him about as year ago. I was shocked at how “bush league” they were. From his assistants, to his letterhead, to not pdf’ing correspondence, etc. I have a few stories about his interactions with our attorneys. He’s definitely very charming and old school.
Mention It ALL! 🙂
I am not sure that funds were commingled but it appears to this fake internet attorney that is the case.And if so, that is the fast track to disbarment.How long ago were your encounters. I am a bit concerned about his mental capacity. I’m a lawyer groupie so I have a soft spot for Tom.
Sometime in 2019. I’ve worked at my firm for many years and deal with many other firms. His office seemed disorganized. I was shocked. The legal issue didn’t fall under my Teams practice area, but the female attorney handling the case knew how much I loved Erika, so she always let me call his office, send him correspondence, etc.
He was asking an outlandish amount of $ for a wrongful termination claim that had zero standing. He didn’t want to discuss the case over the phone, only in person. The attorney on the case was young and beautiful. On more than one occasion he wanted her to fly to LA for working lunches at Morton’s.
Another attorney in the office used to work for the big NY firm that sued him last year for unpaid loans. She used to see him all the time.
The problem with his practice is that a lot of the high profile big money cases take YEARS to settle. Meanwhile, the overhead, and Erikas expenses keep piling up.
And I’d say he’s definitely losing it. We used to giggle at his letters he would send. Not only the content but he wouldn’t pdf them, just send them over via Word.
What’s the big deal about the format? IDGI?
For such a high profile attorney/firm you would expect the formatting to be perfect. It looked like middle schooler put it together. Plus when you don’t pdf documents they can obviously be edited or manipulated after they’re sent. Not to mention he included his e-signature which can easily be pulled out…Mainly just important for security reasons.
The main thing that struck us as odd was the content. Just a crazy money demand and referenced his clients as “nice young girls”. Zero legal argument to back up his case.
Tom was in court today for a hearing. It didn’t go well. He’s in a lot deeper than 2 million. Maybe a hundred times more. But they are going to have to find the money first.
Erika’s community property with Tom is also going to be frozen. It looks like she is in this up to her neck.
Interesting, Ninnyro. Thanks for the update.
He’s 81. They brought him to the hospital + he’s allegedly getting a mental exam. Are his attorneys trying to use that as an excuse, or is he really not of sound mind, is the question!? This is sad beyond belief for everyone involved. Why didn’t his biz partners get him in the hospital under a 5150 years ago, when they saw he was doing unethical things? Did they warn Erika?
Wow. This is sad.
That’s not how 5150’s work. And it’s not what they are for. They are to be used for people who are either suffering a grave disability- they can’t articulate a realistic plan where they are receiving food and shelter and all their basic needs and they are aware of where they are, the year it is etc. Or if they are a danger to themselves or others. They need to state to the evaluator, themselves, a REALISTIC plan, how they would kill themselves or someone else. It isn’t for a situation such as Tom’s. If his partners had concerns about his ability to continue to practice law and/or maintain fiduciary responsibilities, that’s a completely separate issue. Obviously, they should have pursued whatever course of action would be appropriate in that case. When his defense attorney’s are stating now that he is being evaluated due to concerns of dementia, they are talking about the test Trump kept bragging about doing so well on.. “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
What about Dolores from Jerseys’ husband Frank? He was disbarred and admitted it! He stole money from clients! NO JAIL! Now he is a “contractor” and everyone thinks he’s GREAT!
Good thing they have a chapel
LOL GOLD STAR COMMENT OF THE DAY.
It didn’t help the Guidices!! (Remember when they went to the hunting cabin)
There have been rumblings about Tom’s shady deals for years. I mentioned it once on a fan site and was called an Erika hater lol. She’s been flaunting their lifestyle for years so no doubt she will be dragged into all this mess. And I agree with the commenter above that her team thinks she’s Madonna. The organisers for Brighton pride tried to book her 2 years ago to perform and she wanted to be billed on the main stage. Where Britney was performing. Delusional
to be honest, I would have probably dragged you too. I thought Tom was smarter than this. I am a bit shocked about it. He had me fooled. He WAS a highly respected lawyer. I am shocked by all of this. Clearly I is dumb.
Another one that I predicted. No self respecting attorney is going to let his wife parade around like a porn star. I knew something was up
WAY WAY WAY back in the day, Tom was president of the local law club/thingy. He paraded Erika around all the time and I believe she even sang in skimpy clothes to the group back there. I am sure I reported about it all here back when she came on the show.
My my my. Seems like the chickens have come home to roost. I have zero sympathy for anyone other than the victims. Erika has misjudged her last step. She tried to cut bait too late. Everyone seemed to discount his other lawsuits as the cost of doing business but if you read the details and pieced together the picture they all painted, Tom and Erika have been shuffling funds for years. But no one wanted to talk about that because of his 40 year old, headline making win. Go back to her first season. Remember the discussion about the pool tile? That was my first clue that this was not what it was gonna be portrayed as. You don’t ignore routine maintenance on a key feature of a multi million dollar home if you’ve got coin. And note the interior shots of the house were not as crisp and light as say, Kyle’s or Lisa’s. I understand different styles but that is a tell too. If you take all the clues from her first season, her fake it til you make it hard press, and the rumblings of the lawsuits, etc….yeah. It adds up. And I’m kinda here for her comeuppance. She’s been entirely too dismissive and arrogant every season. Time to sell the artwork….which I suspect we will find out wasn’t authentic. She’ll keep a stiff upper lip for a while but now that his attorneys are asking for a competency exam for him, I suspect she will issue a statement in a week or so that is carefully crafted to distance herself from knowledge of the finances. Mrs. Girardi had no insight into their finances and is innocent in all this. Her sympathies toward the families who may be impacted, etc…blah blah blah.
I agree. You don’t spend $40,000 a month on hair and makeup when your house is a mess.
I am constantly amazed at these people doing “schtuff” that they think will not come to light. They are in the public eye for crying out loud! Any of the Housewives/husbands have to be delusional to not consider things will come out. SMDH.
Dorit came back with some weird story about renting or buying or something, and a fashion business partner, and it was all la la la.
Erika is such good TV, it’s hard to imagine her cut. But this might force Bravo’s hand. The whole thing is very gross, if it’s even half true.
Yes, but unfortunately they ran her out. Lisa Vanderpump.
Guess Lu is right. Money can’t buy you class!
Wait, all this is for a couple of million quid? Wouldn’t you just sell a house or something to keep your name out of the papers? I’m confused. Your assets are credit cards. You can’t leverage a couple mill of one of your jets?
I mean obviously a couple of mil is a huge chunk of change to most people, but surely he can scrape that up to keep the peace and a shred of dignity? I was expecting this to be like 200million worth of fraud or something.
she sure is in a “pretty little mess” now isnt she????????
Obviously——Mentally incompetent from the second he married her.
I don’t think I’m allowed to mention his @ here, but there is a lawyer on Twitter going through all of the documents in this case and posting them daily. I’m not sure what his deal is with them, but he seems to have a bone to pick.. Erika posted a picture of her talking head so I guess she’s still going to be on the show, but I doubt we will get much honesty from her. Only thing I can even think of is Erika trying to squeeze out a single tear while she claims she had no idea what Tom was doing.
The court cases are not rocket science.
Really? I don’t have the time to look through documents of the 20+ times he’s been sued. It’s a pattern for him and it finally caught up to his ass when the money ran out. No one says that to you when you post about other lawsuits. Merry Christmas, TT. Hope you find something that brings you cheer.
Hey TT and friends, 6 weeks or so T posted a blind item on two RH couples that were getting a divorce… was there ever a reveal? were Tom and Erika one of the couples or is this a third?
Time to sell the church.
Hey TT! Any thoughts on the LÁ Times article that came out today? I found it interesting to read. It was a quite detailed outline of what allegedly happened.
Yes, that reporter really brought all the receipts! It is a shame that Tom’s career is coming to a close in this way but unfortunately he brought it all on himself. I wonder if Erica will drop out of filming or will she feel compelled to continue on the show since it looks like she will be flat ass broke. It will be a Hell of a season if she even partially opens up about the situation.
I’ve read tons of legal briefs, A twitter recap of yesterday’s proceedings and the LA TIMES excellent piece today that lays things all out from when things started going left to present and they are both fucked. It would not shock me if Erika did prison time as well. She has received millions in her LLC for her… Glam/video whatever it is business. That is going to be a problem for her. A very big problem.
I also read the L.A. times article and it appears Tom and Erika are facing real legal troubles. I don’t see how they can come out of this unscathed. His business was like robbing Peter to pay Paul. However, I am often dumbfounded when the supposedly rich and powerful seem to only get a slap on the wrist when the common folk get the book thrown at them. After watching Erika on Real Housewives i feel it could not have happened to a more deserving character. Deep down she comes off as a smug, arrogant, entitled trophy wife who looked down her nose at people who were not rich. Well, she doesn’t have much to brag about now. Maybe she should humble herself by helping those less fortunate instead of making a career out of spending money like there is no tomorrow. Maybe they will be featured on the American Greed T.V. show.
The book is poised to be thrown. At both of them. I like Erika. But gurrllll. It’s going to be worse than Teresa and Joe.
I’ve never watched American Greed, but if it’s about stories like this one I’m gonna have to start.