My new Twitter friend @Ronald Richards (and yes, yes I am a lawyer groupie who has added Tom Girardi to my regret list with Juan Martinez and more real life boyfriends than I care to count…um, moving on) has even more news for us tonight. Ronald Richard is one of them there fancypants Beverly Hills lawyers who seems very invested in this situation and I AM HERE FOR ALL OF IT.
So here is the latest. Tom Girardi is being sued for $548, 941.28 not paying for his court reporter. So none of those court reporters will receive their payment for purchase. Apparently, the bill is over some period of time. It reminds me that time Sheree took me to court AND LOST of course. Because you know, I paid for them. She also tried to buy the transcripts and then didn’t want to pay for them. Or you know, her attorney. I still have my hard copies.I also bought the transcripts for Phaedra Parks alleged partners in crime. See link for recaps.
While I was trying to figure out all of this, Erika Jayne was posting on IG about a California Appellate Justice. She ranted about her husband fucking her and paying her Saks bill and paying for her plastic surgery.. Wow. That sounds like it was a lot cheaper than Erika and her glam squad. It also sounded like drunk posting and either Erika realized that she should not be drunk posting (allegedly) about a California Appellate judge while embroiled in a huge potentially criminal mess (again, not a pretty mess). I’ve opted not to post the IG, because, I’m not that drunk or stupid. And honestly neither is Erika. I’ve rarely seen her on the show being a huge drinker. But tonight, it really looked like she was in the cups and perhaps had a ladysitter who made her take the post down.
Also, the above look is apparently one she sold. I literally asked a source if they were sure it was her real account. I also asked another source what the fuck she was doing and they basically said “fucking herself.” Then the comment was taken down.
Here’s What Involuntary Bankruptcy Means
Another thing that has confused me in all of this is why Tom’s bankruptcy was “involuntary.” I’ve since gotten a first year Internet law degree that let’s me know that Tom did NOT file for bankruptcy himself. It was brought on by his many, many, many creditors who filed on his behalf on the court and were allowed to do so. This is BEYOND A DOUBT worse than anything Bravo has ever dealt with. It’s way worse than Teresa and Joe. These two are going to prison. At the same time. For way longer than Teresa and Joe in my opinion as an imaginary Internet lawyer.
Teresa and Joe allegedly stole from banks and mortgage companies. But Erika and Tom allegedly stole from families whose family members dies in a plane crash! And at least TWO of the families who died in the Lion Air crash that took 189 souls trusted them to bring them to justice. And justice will be served. The attorney on Twitter, @RonaldRichards who I don’t think has any skin in the game (but I wouldn’t know) seems to think this is the most blatant and egregious case he has ever seen. I paraphrase but that is what I took from his twitter feed.
And I was SO WRONG ABOUT ANOTHER CASE…
Tom is playing broke, or maybe he is broke, but this is going to be an ongoing trial story. It may bring my true crime friends out of the shadows. I miss them. And COURT TV is back! COULD. YOU. EVEN. IMAGINE? Let’s all contact them and beg for the trials. I can’t wait to see Erika’s looks on the stand. I could literally see her testifying “Well, it’s expensive to be meeeeee…” This would be better than the Jodi Arias trials!
And I could have my trial friend and my Bravo friends back together again!
I’m up way too late reading about this… Erika is an idiot. She’s doubling down on IG. If she is drunk posting, she must not have someone that cares enough about her taking her device away from her. This looks really bad but I’m here for your court posts! Thank you for bringing this to us! I’ve been waiting to hear from you about it this week and then, bam! You brought it!
well I have to have a good source to post. Meanwhile Erika is drunk posting that she is Queen Daenerys I Targaryen on her IG. This worries me because it is Dorinda behavior… I feel like she doesn’t have a lot of friends to reach out to. And she is not used to drinking a lot.
Did she shaft her glam squad that bad?
If she can’t pay them anymore, I’m sure most are long gone and never to return. It’s sad, Jen from Salt Lake is in a similar situation. It’s hard to know who your friends are when you have so much money and you’re paying some of them. Erika (whom I did like very much) was proud of how few close friends she had. That circle just got much, much smaller.
Wild comparison, right? Daenerys, the mad queen who became power hungry and murdered innocents. Oy vey.
Btw, main reason I love your site us that you don’t post shot until you have solid sources. So again, thanks!!
Thanks for noticing, Sali. And for once I get to name a source as he is publicly posting! SO YAY! It’s painful sometimes when people doubt me and I can’t out my sources.
you can’t quit your site anytime soon TT. Nobody would post about this like you do
Agreed! A long time reader- sadden that TamaraTattles will be no more. You have done so much awesome work! I love your unique take on the reality show seen. If possible take a break and come back.
Wow, this is all so intense. I do hope we get to see it play out on RHOBH. Even if Erika deflects, it would be fun to hear the other bitches discuss it.
I too am shocked TT and did not see this coming at all….a real story line on RHOB for a change…well well well…???
I’m a gals gal but I can’t help but see the similarities between Tom Girardi and Joe Guidice both trying to maintain a lifestyle their wives demanded that they couldn’t afford.
(Was she Queen after she was kidnapped as a small boy on a ship?) I also love court cases. I was saddened to learn that Juan Martinez was disbarred this summer. He actually disbarred himself to not be criminally prosecuted. I bet Jodi was the happiest she has been in a long time.
Amazing recall!
It’s just interesting to me because she always acts holier than thou and now she’s literally the lowest of low. She acted like the morality police and now look at her. Her life is is shambles and she’s going to end up in prison and no one can say it’s a big misunderstanding and defend. What the did is awful, I’ve never liked her and the attitude she gives off . That glam squad just lost the job of their lives
I’m wondering how long it’s been since the Glam Squad got paid? Erika used to make it sound like her music career was paying for the squad, which never made a lick of sense. Wonder if we’ll get any tell all’s from them?
I agree! The expenses were too high for her music career to cover: private jet rides, multiple hotel rooms wherever she performed or traveled with the cast, a “clubhouse” rental in West Hollywood. Not to mention designer clothes and wigs.
Don’t forget how she would brag about the ‘Gulfstream’. Wonder where that’s going to end up?.
Well. Well. Well.
There are bright spots in 2020 after all.
I can’t wait for the Lifetime movie! But I really want to know more about is the $882,715.52 he, allegedly, owes to Wells Fargo Bank on 5 leases for Office Equipment? That just boggles my mind…
My new favorite is that Erika is ordered to stop selling her very pricey clothing – bc she resells on a designer site. The LAME thing about that is that the prices are not good – who wants to pay 650 for a worn Gucci sweater? I got my designer resale buys – I like 150 for a used Gucci sweater. She’s all show
They’ve been hiding in plain sight for years. I hope the victims families get justice. This is lower than low.
ITA
How COULD anyone steal from victims of a plane crash? Sickening!
Erika currently says Tom is a good man. Seriously? What kind of person takes from the injured and the deaths of others? He is evil. So is she. The money put in her accounts. I guess just appeared. She is the secretary of one company and knew nothing? Karma Erika
You ate. Inherently cold bitch who deserves all you get.
To be fair to be listed as a secretary on an LLC doesn’t mean much of anything.
I clicked on the link for Ronald Richards and his website is a bit lame for a reputable attorney. Also his Beverly Hills address is a post office box. It seems his street address is in Washington, DC on K St, which is a good (read high rent) address. I think Ronald may be using this for publicity.
If these allegations are true, it is absolutely despicable. I don’t understand why people with such huge skeletons in their closet appear on reality television.
Love her or hate her, Erika always seemed to have her shit together and be of reasonable intelligence. This is absolutely mind-blowing.
Publicity is the name of the game. His bio says he was a legal analyst for NBC. Who knows, maybe he’ll get well known enough to take over for Jeffrey Toobin?
Of course it’a a PO Box, makes sense to me. Don’t come for my new Twitter crush!
That is because he is not a reputable lawyer, rather the ca version of “Michael Cohen”. In fact, he proudly boasts that he represented the “Limousine Rapist”, aka John Gordon Jones. Ironically. Jones was a regular at Chasens as was Tom Girardi who later went on to represent and get sued for malpractice by one of Jones’ victims. This is not new for Girardi, he just finally got caught. Hopefully they go back at least 30 years. You haven’t seen anything yet! If Trump was a lawyer he would run his practice like Girardi. I throw up a little every time I hear “respectable lawyer” and his name together. They are both disgusting human beings and I couldn’t be happier this is FINALLY happening to them both!
appropos to legal stuff on this blog – trump pardoned angela stanton. read it in usa today yesterday. there’s more to her than i thought.
Wild and compelling stuff, for sure. Greed can be the worst kind of bitch…
Is there a screen shot of the IG post anywhere or is it still up?
It’s on some of the reality tv sites…..it really is what you expect….rando drunk messages
Someone stated they looked up the dates, text said wed July 6. So they were either from 2016 or 2011, those dates fell on those years. So she def was saving those texts for mad day! So wild!!!
And the more I think about it, those txts, the network was 3g!!! 4g rolled out in 2009!!!! So it’s very possible these texts were actually from 2005!!!!! Which given the phone screen could be accurate! Wow.
Bingo on the 3G network. Those texts are from more than a decade ago. 2005 sounds pretty reasonable from the looks of the phone screen. It’s pretty funny that she’d use that as a distraction. I don’t care who he fucked – that’s between them. If, however, she’s complicit in these alleged crimes, she should receive punishment for it along with her husband and anyone else involved.
Erika posted that screen shot of ten year old texts on purpose.
She left it up long enough for everyone to have screen shot it and short enough to claim remorse.
Half of me thinks they’ve got money hidden somewhere and the other half thinks they couldn’t possibly be this stupid?
However, things always end up bad for those people who think they are smarter than everyone else. Or maybe they really are?
I think she is very shrewd, and there’s some strategy behind posting those texts. Not sure yet what it is, but watching this unfold is very entertaining.
I don’t buy her story. Those screenshots she posted and quickly deleted look like they’re from 2001. They had an arrangement, and open situation, and he got a little too close for comfort once and she’s been saving the receipts. She used them now to gain sympathy, and to try and prove she actually is divorcing Tom for a legal reason.
Their entire marriage was a sham apparently. Her whole facade is crumbling, from her loveless marriage to her fake lifestyle. Does she seriously think she’s going to get sympathy by showing 20 year old texts? That just tells me that she married him for money and didn’t care that he cheated because she wasn’t in love with him to begin with.
This story is getting more interesting by the day. The more I read the more I would be clutching my pearls if I had any. I started following Richard on Twitter once other accounts started to retweet him. I’m very curious to see how bravo/Rhobh production company are going to Spin/edit this. I hope she’s talking because this headline news and she can’t be avoiding it. Erika is going to walk out of this Marriage with what she came in with. A Toyota celica and her waitress outfit.
No, she won’t have the waitress uniform. According to the L.A Times article, Erika threw her green velvet uniform in the trash on her last day as a waitress.
From no story line to THE story line. I still remember that parody they did on SNL. Not very flattering from my perspective for a prominent attorney, but very accurate.
I just don’t see this being the big story line. It will surprise me if she goes through with the season with all this going on. The Ice Queen has been cold to everyone, now she will expect warm and well wishes and I just don’t see that happening with the fans. That’s just my opinion tho, I loved to be proved wrong. I can’t see Bravo going through with it, if it’s getting this bad and probably only to get worse.
Like lovin’ Kenya? Or Rinna?
I don’t want to wish I’ll on Erika or Hubby…..but there does get to a point that flaunting wealth gets old. Acting like it’s normal to have a team of gay men fawning over you, seeming to prize the fact that you have no female friends….it all felt icky to me. People need to show some humility. Erika lacked/lacks humility.
Agree w folks saying this feel like Teresa and Joe G….just a little too much flaunting. And when your life is showing how much you have….it’s prob all for show.
And at least for Teresa and Joe, it was early on in the Housewives franchise, so didn’t watch it play out for others. The Girardi’s certainly had enough history by now to know what not to do.
And Joe Giudice didn’t have any training in the law. Tom has been practicing for longer than most of us have been alive!
That’s why Tom is either totally crooked and hiding assets or old and gone off the Alzheimer’s deep end.
If it’s the later – I hope he’s got some money left for retirement – the former I hope they get all the publicity for being bad humans.
And you know there is a govt agent or lawyer somewhere taking note of all the claimed wealth and stuff you flaunt.
Like Teresa paying for all that furniture (Season 1) in cash? Joe pulling out a wad of cash and paying the movers and tipping big? Was it rolled up with a rubber band? Didn’t the Feds request all the footage and even what was ‘left on the cutting room floor’ from Bravo? BUSTED!!! I just always wonder how these people sleep at night? I’d be a crazy person if the Feds were questioning me…and I knew I was stealing.
Who needs lawyers, for the right amount of money, Trump will pardon them!
Nope, they were Biden supporters!! Figures…
Court TV & now this – finally 2020 sucks less.
Holy shit! This is some piping hot tea! Will be checking back often for updates!
I’ve not been a fan of Erika since she first appeared. It was for a very petty reason, her friendship with Yolanda.
I have liked her less and less. She has always been the fakest of the fake, and this is a show that has a lady with a made up accent.
I only hate watched last season, because i don’t like any of them, except Garcelle. I will be tuning in this season to see if they shout, ” Own it!” at her. There is just no way an attorney had THAT much cash. And, yes, i think her music is edgy and catchy, but the production costs greatly eats away at the profits it would have brought. SHE was definitely living beyond the means. Unlike Teresa, who i think was completely ignorant, Erika is shrewd and calculating. She knows.
Thanks for the update!
She’s got a huge pile of crows to chow down on now. For all her bragging, private planes, glam squad BS, ugly ass outfits, that oh-so-classy “cunt” necklace, her looking down on others, her snobbery and Oh how the Mighty have fallen. She needs to have her phone taken away like Trump should have had done cuz she’s digging a deeper hole. This is not helping her. And who is surprised Tom is cheating? As said from the Super Chicken cartoon (showing my OLD age here) “You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.”
OH MY GOSH! I’m gunna need a day or two to get over this.Who is next Rhinna…Kyle !!!!!!
Talk about karma
Ha! Yes! I will be there to see THE Queen Bee ( karma) deliver the reaps of what they all sowed.
Kathy and Kyle have not been very close, and there is the bad blood caused by Mauricio starting his own real estate company, so… there might be some good drama from that. Also, big sister Kathy has been more protective of Kim and must have some opinions about how aggressive Rinna had been towards Kim on and off camera.
OH MY GOSH! I am going to need a day to deal.Who is next Kyle ,Rhinna .Karma is a bitch.
I want to hear what Megan McCain thinks about this.
OMG, when I read this – I too was wondering about Megan McCain ……
What am I missing? What does Meghan McCain have to do with this?
She’s obsessed/loves Erica, talks & tweets about her a lot !!! Her favorite housewife.
OK, that makes sense. Thanks. Now I can’t wait to see what, if anything, Meghan has to say.
She’s a Skinner version of megan. Lol?? probably lives vicariously through her platinum blonde Barbie ways ?
Meghan and Erica are two previously plain Janes with over processed fake blond hair and who wear way too much make up and whose only claim to fame is being the daughter or wife of someone famous.
The Girardi & Keese website is down. Could be random but could be indicating more ‘beginning of the end’.
I will be reading every post on this subject. Maybe two or three times.
Do you think she will be fired from RHOBH? I know they waited for Teresa, but I agree that this is totally different.
Wonder what her son who’s a cop thinks about this? Would also love to know how Eileen feels now about that whole interaction they had on the boat that one time??
How awful for her son! ?
I was also thinking about those tears on the boat today. That perhaps it was not stress about the cop son but really about E&Ts fiancial stress/crimes. Perhaps something was up then – the LA Times article says that they’ve had ongoing legal trouble since at least 2015.
I remember I read that Erika lent Eileen the glam squad the next day, as a peace token. How very ugh and I wonder what Eileen thinks about that bit now.
Erika nearly ripped her best friend’s head off! I agree with you. Erika may have been reacting to her loneliness and isolation, all the crap she was dealing with, with Tom. I have a feeling she loved him and he broke her heart.
Oh come on. You have a feeling that she loved him? Why? Because she said it and fake cried before she went to Broadway? She was a beautiful 20 something that married a man older than her father. She was crying on that boat because her money train was ending.
HOLY SHIT! What fresh hell is this? Damn, how fucking stupid! And how do we contact Court TV?
I don’t know why, but for me, Birkin bags became an earmark of ridiculous excess many years ago … yes, they are nice … BUT not worth the price tag. But the things I really think are UGLY are those logo goods, especially the LV baby poop brown and monkey vomit green/gold. Erika and Dorit and the SCREAMING LOGOS make me sick.
The vanity project that is Erika Jayne made me sick.
But … if it is YOUR money, spend it however you want. You don’t want to save the world … your business…
But NOTHING makes me as mad as stealing from the innocent. No matter WHAT you spend it on. How do these people sleep at night? The hubris!
I know we should follow “innocent until proven guilty,” BUT where there’s smoke there’s fire. Too much evidence stacking up. If it gets thrown out on a technicality, they might not be guilty… but they still would be DESPICABLE. Way beyond anything any other reality personality has done. ALMOST up there with OJ.
“I don’t know why, but for me, Birkin bags became an earmark of ridiculous excess many years ago … yes, they are nice … BUT not worth the price tag. But the things I really think are UGLY are those logo goods, especially the LV baby poop brown and monkey vomit green/gold. Erika and Dorit and the SCREAMING LOGOS make me sick.”
Spot on. Those bags aren’t even cute. It’s all about showing people what you can buy, not love of the bag.
Unlike Dorit and PK, it was hard to tell Erika was also a scam artist, largely due to Tom. It’s amazing he was touted as some legal hero, when in reality he was anything but. Erika loved to tell us how rich and powerful her husband was, yet she had to know the deep shit they were in with the multiple lawsuits. Keeping a 40k a month glam squad was such a ridiculous boast of fake wealth. And now posting about an affair that happened probably a decade ago makes her look all the more guilty.
Are we talking about the same Ron Richards who was on MDL way way back and Chad with the bad hair was his realtor? I loved that show back then. But I digress.
Yes.
It’s difficult to sympathize with someone who was so, um, I’m-so-rich-bitches all of the time. If wealthy people could just humble themselves, these things wouldn’t happen. Don’t buy glam squads. Save money for a rainy day instead of blowing it and taking from the less fortunate when you see an opportunity.
I read the texts she posted on US Weekly. I’m sure he was banging someone else in 2011, but I bet Erika already knew about it and is just trying to make people believe the divorce is due to infidelity instead of her running for the hills before she ends up in jail, but the law doesn’t work that way.
Erika’s schtick was funny and super watchable on TV — however, stealing from heirs/victims of horrific fires, plane crashes, and other hard working people who need every dollar they earn to put food on the table for their families – is another thing entirely. In retrospect, her act was not an act – it was above and beyond narcissism and criminality — and was documented for the world to watch on RHOBH. She was choking on excess – and we all laughed. What does that say about me? I’m thinking about that.
I wish her and her husband the absolute worst — I hope they spend the rest of their lives forgotten and alone in prison and pray for those that have been victimized by them can gain some measure of justice.
Yea it sounds like she’s going to be getting the puss patted in prison.
Hilarious!
TT, thanks so much for all your detective work, and thanks for putting it all together into an easy-to-understand format! Wow, wow, wow! Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but right now Tom and Erika sure look like straight-up thieves! And stealing from burn victims, and from the families of people who were killed in plane crashes!! If they get convicted of these allegations, they should both go away forever! Please continue to keep us posted, TT!
It’s not rocket science, as TT would say. In a loving way, of course.
Lol. I thought about you when I saw this post.
Yummy! This is delicouse tea. Thank you Tamara. The Erica surprise/not a surprise divorce story has certainly turned into the gift that keeps on giving!
I guess Mikey will have to go back to coaching Gretchen to dance with the Pussycat Dolls. He can’t be paid to fawn over fake Erika anymore.
I’m here for all this tea like Vince VanPatten
watching Kyle and Brandi fight while hiding in his garage…..
Dying!!! ??? I needed that visual and gave me a laughing fit!! Thank you!!!
And her son is a cop. Wonder how awkward this must be for him.
As if it wasn’t awkward enough already.
Wow. So many people who saw how terrible Tom and Erika were all along. Me? I liked them and am sad that I was wrong. I don’t enjoy many of the housewives but Erika was certainly one of them. I think I’m a pretty good judge of character, and oh boy did Tom pull the wool over my eyes.
Me too!! I really loved them and thought that their moments last season were so precious. Very disappointing and disheartening.
I am a good judge of character. Knowing that she left her son to pursue fame and fortune told me just who she was. Many people got on me and said that men leave their children all the time and I shouldn’t judge her for that.
Those that watch CNN remember the Creepy Porn Lawyer Avenatti? He also stole lots of money ? from his clients that where wheelchair ♿ bound, etc. He was on over 100 times on CNN, & they wanted him to run for President!
He’s in prison. That scumbag even beat his girlfriend & got arrested immediately after! Now that was not covered by all the media that praised him! Like MSNBC, CNBC, ETC now that was a big black eye ?! BRAVO needs to vet these people bc this is awful. Now innocent until proven guilty. If they are then they need to be held accountable!
Avenetti got a Covid home confinement release in February or March and is out until at least mid January. He has more cases coming though. I haven’t heard anything about wheelchair victims though. I believe his current conviction is about Stormy Daniels.
Avenatti was convicted of trying to extort Nike.
Yes trying to extort Nike, Stormy Daniels & sick clients! He’s a real scumbag. Peace ?
Sorry but these rich people that do these things have money literally under mattresses and buried in backyards. Come to my little town where pharmacists live in $6m homes, the husbands go to jail for fraud and the families keep living it up. These scammers feel no remorse and they know their day will come, so they prepare for it. One of my coworkers husbands was sentenced to 10 years, she doesn’t make a lot on her own but kids get new cars, they are always flying on vacation, mom has weekly eyelash and hair extensions. And daddy is sitting cooking in prison for taking the fall for even wealthier and scammer people. Erika will be fine, and will get out of this unscathed. Even if she sits in jail for 6 months, she will be rolling in $$ like Teresa as soon as she gets out. Only poor shmucks get screwed while these scammers get richer.
Unfortunately, you’re right. I don’t understand how Theresa has money.
As a pharmacist I’d like to know what kind of scam I could pull to land a 6M dollar house. 🙂
Not a clue, I’m a poor lawyer who shudders at the thought of doing something unethical. They then launder money in over priced sushi restaurants that charge $300 for an omakase. Literally, multiple scamming families are all involved in the same shady sushi restaurant at in Brooklyn.
Oh, Fancy Pants, get into the wholesale pharmacy biz. Lots of scams. Drugs, legal or illegal, are cash cows.
Geeeeez!!!!!! I hope Erica humbles herself and resolves this not so pretty mess as best she can. This is not a good look!!!!!!!!!!
Erika may not have known all the details but she had to know enough to be complicit. Of course she won’t allow any mention of it on the show and will just blame it on “I am not allowed to comment on pending litigation”.
I read that Erika said she wouldn’t make the divorce her story line.This is way more than being about a divorce. But I also read that Rinna, big lips blabber mouth, said that it will all play out on the show? I bet Doridiot will be next with financial troubles.
I think she will talk about “having problems in her marriage” and contemplating divorce. She needs to document the fake cheating and such for her legal cases.
Can you explain how fake cheating would help her? I know there is some angle here, since she’s no dummy, but I’m scratching my head. Since CA is a no-fault divorce state, it would have no impact on a divorce settlement. In what way do you think fake cheating would insulate her from criminal charges or civil liability?
Especially since she’s claiming this only now, in December 2020. She was still married to him when all his shenanigans were happening.
I never got the impression that Tom shared any details of his business dealings with Erika. I think Erika profited from the grift but I seriously doubt that she knew what was going on with Tom’s business.
If she’s listed on the board of a company or 3 & had $20m funneled to her LLC – then well aware.
Personally or Business wise – joint tax returns have to include her signature.
She may not have know all the dirt, but that doesn’t excuse her from liability.
If Tom told her over breakfast one morning, “Honey, I’m going to put $20 million dollars into your company’s account today… I’d imagine there was some sort of conversation about that.
Also, how the hell did Erika Jayne justify that income on her taxes? That’s a whole lot of pussy patting…
Oh, sis, I’m here for the CourtTV of this!!!!
Sorry that I once thought Tom G was hot.
I’ll be following this story!
I wonder what Camille is saying now. She has been saying Ericka doesn’t show her real life. Now we all get to see it.
Camile has seldom been wrong.
I feel so stupid and duped! I liked Tom and thought he was a stand up guy. How sad for the victims. If this makes it to trial Tamara can blog about the trial!
Erika as poor, divorced Erika would be really watchable. Maybe we haven’t seen the last of her?
I agree with you TT. This is much, much, MUCH worse than what Teresa and Joe Guidice did. Scum of the earth Erika and Tom Gerardi are. There is no coming back from this. I wonder if they’re going to parade Erika going in and out of court the way they did Teresa. I’m thinking since these are/will be federal charges that they will not be able to get out of doing jail time. Aren’t federal charges tough and once you’re charged you’re basically doing the time.
They have yet to be charged with any crimes. The current cases are all civil. However the judge has referred this case to the criminal courts. The current cases are about getting the victims repaid. Tom will be disbarred. Then the criminal charges will be filed.They have been put in involuntary bankruptcy. Their debt most likely severely outweighs their ability to pay. Someone will come in and audit all of that. Oddly when the Giudices did this they got to keep the house, and Joe bought Teresa a new Lexus when she got out of prison.
Glad to see some of this becoming public. I have know about his shadiness for several years now, but could not say anything due to confidentiality.
I started reading here with the Jodi Arias case. Can’t wait to hear about this one. With a little luck CourtTV will air it
It looks like Court TV will be able to air the trial of the George Floyd murderers next year. I’m not sure I am up for watching that though.
CourtTV (it’s back!!!) is going to cover Jeffery (I think that’s his first name) Paschal’s(?) assault trial in April.. He’s the one on 90 Day Fiancé Before the 90 Days who turned up with a bunch of DV charges (among others) after he was filmed.. He says he’s innocent so it’s going to go to trial.. I’m wondering if any TLC secrets will be revealed if they bring on the Russian girl he proposed to as a witness..
PLEASE, PLEASE email me when you know the air date! That would be a great trial recap and I miss all my Sidebar (put it in my search box) friends.
Of course ?!!
First time commenter, but daily reader. Tamara, thank you so much for keeping the site going. You have been my favorite source for Bravo recaps and info for a while. Reading this post made me smile because it felt like your passion for the writing (and all the gossip) is back. Thank you!
Did anyone else notice when he gave her that (Picasso??) that Erika explicitly asked “Is this a birthday gift for me?” TIME STAMP.
Wow, I did not see this coming! He seemed like such a big shot lawyer. Now, their marriage DID always seem like a business arrangement to me. There seemed to be mutual respect, but not love, warmth or affection.