Well this is interesting. Jay Edelson and associates were partners on the call. Two attorneys for Erika Girardi. Mr. Girardi is not present, just his criminal defense attorney. Boeing, and Lira and Griffin’s attorneys. Various victims attorneys. Kimberly Archie a victim.
The Chicago law firm Edelson PC on Friday asked the judge to order Jayne to stop selling designer clothing. It also argued she should be forced to deposit with the federal court any money she made from her clothing sales since the judge froze the assets of her lawyer husband, Thomas Girardi, and his Girardi Keese law firm.
Basically she was told to stop selling shit. Neither Tom nor Erika was present. This is going to be worse than Teresa and Joe…
I can’t wait to see how this all plays out!
I may be in the minority here, but I don’t think she knew what her husband was doing when he was doing it. If his partners at the law firm didn’t know and they should have had access to the books, it’s not a far stretch to say she didn’t at the time. I think she was enjoying the money she thought they had and not asking any questions. Her name was probably on the corporations to show partially woman owned and get some benefits from that. It isn’t to say that when the lawsuits kept coming from all over the place that she didn’t think something was up. Instead, she kept up the lifestyle and for that she is at fault. I’m also guessing seeing her husband’s affair is when she became Erika Jayne and started spending the money like crazy.
I think it is possible that she didn’t know everything. But there is the whole, Oh look, my entertainment business suddenly has a 20 million dollar injection of funds thing…
I think she definitely knew her husband was financing the lifestyle, but not necessarily that he was robbing people in the process. Many people think lawyers and doctors who have name recognition make unlimited funds, which isn’t necessarily true.
At some point, however, she probably saw a few completely separate lawsuits coming and should have questioned why, but the love of money made her turn a blind eye… just like she did to the affair.
I feel like I’m a horrible person for saying this but she deserves it and so does Tom . This is so shady and horrible. She has always had an air about her that she’s better than everyone and “above” you. Well guess what pretty little mess. I feel like she always has her nose turned up at everyone by like they are lower than her. The girl also never smiles . I just wonder what she looks like without that glam squad
Why do you feel horrible. You know the saying… You do the crime, you do the time (allegedly). What comes around goes around, etc. They deserve everything that comes their way NOW. They didn’t deserve what they had that they STOLE. Despicable vultures is what they are. I never liked her anyway. She was always a braggart, which was a turn off, but to know that it was of the backs of victims makes it so beyond ugly. I hope they both do jail time and I don’t feel bad at all.
I mean i guess i dont feel horrible for them. i hate wishing ill will on anyone. but when you do something as horrible as tom did and allegedly her you get what you deserve. i just never liked her. she has an air about her that her shit doesnt smell. i just think its disgusting shes still parading around. i dunno i think deep down inside people are still innately good. who knows what all she DID know about it. although its hard to think she didnt know what was happening,.
Your not a horrible person. They absolutely do deserve this! What a bunch of low life scum bags!!
I think all that money on glam was wasted, she always looked overdone and like she tried to hard. No effortless fresh beauty.When she dressed down she looked unsophisticated and silly too with the biggest designer labels that just scream new money.In England she would be deemed a “chav”..
Oh my how the turns have tabled! I hope she appreciated her big moment on Broadway because that time is OVER.
Worse than Teresa and Joe indeed. This makes their tacky stolen McMansion shenanigans look like very small potatoes by comparison. I can’t believe how far Tom has fallen. They could have simply been wealthy beyond most people’s dreams but it just wasn’t enough.
I’m in the minority, but I’m going to wait and see what happens with Erika before I condemn. She may not have been cognizant of Tom’s antics. Yes, she is vain and foolish with money, but the crimes allegedly committed here are reprehensible ethical grievances. I’m hoping Erika is innocent.
I hope she is innocent too. I wonder if she’ll be asked back to Broadway if/when it re-opens. Cue Helen Lawson saying Broadway doesn’t go for embezzlers and crooks.
We are so “Valley of the Dolls”. Our age is showing. Just don’t let Neely O’Hara snatch off my wig.
OMFG! Theater made me LOFL. And then I thought if Sharon Tate. I wish it had played out like the Tarantino film!
I am with you and I even hope Tom is innocent. He seemed like one of the good guys. That said, I was never an Erica fan mostly because she is boring and PK read her coldness correctly from the jump.
PK read her correctly because a grifter can always spot another grifter
For a woman who took a photo of a condolence card as proof she sent it to LVP, I find it hard to believe Erika didn’t know or, at the very least, suspect something. I was impressed she caught on to LVP’s manipulations so quickly but perhaps that’s because she’s also a manipulator.
Yes very well said
Shady sees shady
She knew about LVP upfront (damn Tom most likely knew the LVP legal problems and probably followed them I just realized that) that’s why they came in so hard for her Erika’s first season to include trying to co-opt the color pink.
I agree. Dude talked to her like a child.
I doubt she was running any of this, though TT has been right before.
I can imagine a lot of scenarios where she just didn’t know.
She was never my fav. I didn’t like her rags to riches story about leaving her family including her child in the hopes that she would make it big one day. Always mentioning her bad childhood and it wasn’t easy to get where she is now. Almost as if she deserves to be rich and is entitled to it. She married a rich older man.. and proceeded to blow his money along with his clients money on herself (allegedly). Rinna drives me crazy but atleast she worked for what she earned and seems to live within her means. Erika’s recent posts are the beginning of her victim narrative and I’m not here for it. She may not have known everything.. but she had to have known something.
*over coffee one morning*
“Oh hey, my love, mind if I slip TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT?” Oh sure, pass the sugar bowl please…
Oh, hey sweetypuss, mind if I slip my wiener into your teacup? Oh … too wobbly … here’s $20million to make up for it!
“Mornin’ my [email protected] poo-poo face! I slipped 100k into your change purse”
“Oh Tom, my dirty lil pappy, yoi’re so smart!”
“And?”
“, And powerful”
“And?”
“Oh! And virile! No blue pills for you!”
“That’s my good fluffy puss pants! I’ll put an extra 10million in your account!”
LOFL! Bwahahahahahahahaha!
I bet he pulled the “change” out of his little rubbery “pussy coin purse”! (Whenever I would see some customer pull one of those out, I knew it was going to be a shitty tip.)
Lol that’s just good reading right there.
Well, what a Good morning it is indeed! Thanks for starting my day off with this update to EJ’s ongoing saga.
Is there any chance that as the corporate secretary for Tom’s businesses with full authority to handle the money, that Erica was the one rerouting most of the money like a sniper from the side??? Cause Im just so surprised Tom wouldn’t be a smarter white collar criminal than the blatant stealing we are hearing about. In any event, I just want the victims compensated for the stress plus the money due to them. Their anxiety must be off the charts, especially on top of this nightmare year.
The victims, the victims, the victims.💛
The unnecessary and greed must be taking a toll.
And to see it flaunted would push me over the edge.
Karma will knock on the doors of those who are due a visit. I have no doubt.
As a former Tom groupie, I too find it hard to believe he is this stupid and deceitful. I just feel like maybe he went senile? I want to make excuses for him for some reason. But THERE IS NO EXCUSE. And it makes me sad that he is going out like this. That said, he unfortunately needs to die in jail and Erika Jayne needs to be getting her pussy patted in a cell with Big Bertha.
omg TT you just killed me with the “Erika Jayne needs to be getting her pussy patted in a cell with Big Bertha.” this is the best thing i have ever read on your site!
wow. my site really does suck. LOL. xo ~tt
My favorite item from this site is from a couple of years ago basically explaining the difference between Old Testament God and New Testament Jesus. It was amazing and I wish I could find it now.
I bring that up a lot. It’s like people don’t understand why there is a NEW testament. Here’s one short version… https://tamaratattles.com/2016/12/21/nene-leakes-wants-us-all-to-be-rich-bitches/
Umm, no it doesn’t. Your site completely rocks the socks off all others!
Damn shame Tom is a crook. Horrible behavior and to think Erika has that beautiful chapel in the center of her house and it did no good!?
I’ll be reading here for updates, luv you TT!
I wonder if that chapel has been getting much use lately. Maybe THAT is what some of those millions were spent on.
I agree. I have not sympathy for people who steal from victimized people.
That is the best!
Yes. Worse than Teresa. I believe that Teresa was ignorant. To quote Joe Giudice, ” She don’t know nutthin'”. She had no clue about finance and certainly would not have questioned Joe.
To quote Erika, ” I’m no dumb-dumb”. She at least knew enough to question how can we afford all of this. People think lawyers have mega bucks, but they are not top 1 percenters. If I know this, so does Erika. The other comparison is that people said Joe wanted to spoil Teresa. Not sure if that’s as true as him wanting to play Big Shot. I think Tom certainly could have felt a LOT of pressure to keep his much younger pretty wife spoiled. She had a full staff of people to pay and jet set with. Erika definitely knew she was bleeding money.
I felt a twinge of sympathy for Joe Giudice even more for Teresa, lots for their kids. I’m glad they got punished. I feel so torn about them.
Not so much about Erika and Tom. It is just plain greed and audacity that they thought they were above it all and could get away with it.
Now, who the heck was buying her tacky bedazzled “haute couture” pieces? Sutton?? Lisa Rinna??
Full confession, I am not a fan of the word C U Next Tuesday. Buttttt… that necklace. I’m thinking it would have been great for them to pass around. Like an immunity. “Today, Kyle gets a free pass. Go ahead and C U Next Tuesday it up!! Ya know ya want to.”
I disagree with a lot of what you said here. But that was OFFSET by the whole CUNT necklace as an immunity idol.
This might be the most brilliant comment I have ever read here for that alone. ‘
GOLD STAR COMMENT OF THE DAY!
Gold star of the entire holiday season.
Maybe she can sell the Cunty Immunity necklace to Brawnwyn’s Hubby!
Watching OC and wishing Kelly would quit hogging the damn necklace. Let Gina wear it for a change.
Teresa was not innocent. When you sign statements misrepresenting your jobs and income to banks to obtain loans, you know exactly what you are doing. And Teresa can play innocent if she wants but she did do those things.And the only reason she went to jail was because she continued to lie. Innocent people don’t need to lie. If Erica is innocent, then she should fully cooperate with the authorities and return all money.
Everything you said is true. But Erika is a lot smarter than Teresa… and she is probably going to jail soon….
I didn’t say Teresa was innocent. I’m glad she did time. I am saying she was ignorant enough to not question anything Joe said. He said that he gave her things to sign, told her to sign them and she did. I believe that is exactly how it happened. She would not have told him no or let me read this first.
She also went to banks with fake w2s from jobs she never had. Then she looked the interviewer in the eyes and said she was a real estate agent, or a number of other jobs she knew she didn’t have. She didn’t just blindly sign shit. She was in on crimes.
A,of of people seemed to skip that part about Teresa going into the banks and signing false forms as to what she made a yr to be eligible for the huge loans they received , plus the Sandy residents getting stiffed through their insurance. I think they decided together that Joe was going to take the fall so they could keep Teresa and the kids on the show .
I would like to take this moment to remind everyone our Tamara Tattles has correctly predicted outcomes in previous criminal cases.
Carry on.
Heck yes she has!
I hope they find a way to pay the victims, e.g., selling their properties. The thought of people being victimized so that she could fly glam squads all over the world to put her in the hideous wigs and costumes she flaunted turns my stomach. Or the money spent putting on those shows or making her recordings. Terrible.
My question is, if their assets are frozen, how is she paying the rent and food bills?
The courts can appoint receivers who review expenses, decides which ones are necessary and allows those bills to be paid until a final outcome. But they won’t get one dime extra and Erika is going to find out that what the courts deem necessary will be bare minimum. Maybe they will allow her to buy hair dye and a nail kit.
I’m sure someone could lend her a bedazzler to go with the nail kit
So different from Joe and Teresa. Also, and I may be really just be naive as hell, but it seems to have really made an impact on Joe. He seems (through social media) to just be grateful for his freedom. I think his ICE detention made him view his world differently.
Anyhoo…yeah I think Erika and Tom are in trouble. I also believe she knew most of what was going on. Allegedly.
I never liked her and I wonder if they’ll skate away? She’s devious and cold as ice. He seemed like a good guy but who knows. TT will keep us posted….but the people they stole from? That alone is unforgivable.
Don’t understand how you can spend $80 million dollars And now be broke. Bravo needs to stop selecting housewives that have questionable business practices and or problems in their marriage. I don’t want to watch people struggling in their relationships to me that is not entertainment
Lol, and I’m sure none of this will be covered when they film, thanks Bravo. Let’s focus on another boring story line such as Kyle fighting with Kathy, like that’s exciting! Rather than the Rinna rumors, Erica, Dorit, Kyle….wow the skeletons are really coming out, makes you wonder why they still want to do this show! Frankly other that Erica’s questionable singing career, I had no idea she has anything to sell!
Yes I agree, just like Yolanda’s juicy divorce. We never got the real story nor was it covered during filming. Just endless shots of her in bed…..getting shots. And she was smart, like Erica.
If you want the REAL story on Yolanda’s divorce (and “illness!”) check out the TT archives. Buckle up!
Oh, that was some good stuff! Yes, go read every Yo post if you haven’t!
This is a synopsis for those short on time. https://tamaratattles.com/2015/12/03/a-completely-hypothetical-intellectual-discussion-with-psylocke/‘
But really, is anyone short on time these days?
Moms. Moms are short on time. We are supposed to be wife, mom, teacher, math tutor, maid, chef, all while working from home. We are dying here.
I have never liked her—-just didn’t get her personality or why she was on the show, she often never seemed to want to be there. I think she was the first one who I felt wanted only to be on the show to promote her own ‘brand’ and didn’t really want to engage with the others. Anyway–I have a very hard time believing that she had no idea what was going on. She was spending all that money, she had to have a good idea where it was coming from and why she was able to spend so, so, so much all the time. I have to believe someone (Tom?) paid a pretty penny to get her on Broadway and out of the house (if you catch my drift). Tom may come across as a smart, sweet old guy but he has to be cutthroat in his line of work.
Erika’s son was living with them, so it makes you wonder what he knows, or if he was involved. Surely to God Bravo would cut ties with these two. I’m sure they won’t, though.
She’s got hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes, shoes, and handbags.
She’s not wearing Shoedazzle. Her shit is straight off the runway.
REPOSESSED. lol
I try to imagine the IRS or somebody coming in to reposes my reindeer pants….
😂
And your new nightshirt that goes perfectly with the reindeer pants!
I believe they will be vindicated and it will turn out ok soon
Not a chance.
I guess Denise’s modest beach house isn’t looking too bad right about now.
Team Denise, bitch needs to come back asap.
Revenge is a dish, best served cold….am I right?????
And ,.. living well is the BEST revenge. Living well with a clear conscience!
I just don’t understand why she won’t shut her mouth. She keeps posting things on social media like this is no big deal, which makes it hard to sympathize with her. You’re literally in court for this but post a picture of you with your glam squad?! The optics are BAD!
Umm, no it doesn’t. Your site completely rocks the socks off all others!
Damn shame Tom is a crook. Horrible behavior and to think Erika has that beautiful chapel in the center of her house and it did no good!?
I’ll be reading here for updates, luv you TT!
I don’t know why this posted twice, sorry people!
I am really far behind here and committed to catching up.
As some of you know I work in a LTC facility, we held the virus at bay for 9 months. It caught our ass 11/30 and it has been the nightmare of a fire we were working so hard to never have to deal with.
I am so sorry to hear that the virus invaded. I hope you are OK and your people too.
(Any idea how it oozed in?)
We aren’t sure. We had a couple of residents in the ED ( for unrelated issues) for extended hours who tested pos our next go round…our staff down that hall had a number of pos as well…
Ultimately it didn’t matter. Our whole building except just a few were pos within days. Staff too. I am still negative as of last evening but I am an old nurse and follow every guideline and cannot afford to get it as I’m a smoker.
Sorry to hear this Kipper. Things are hitting the fan. I had just stopped wearing gloves to roll my trash can out, and then all of the garbage collectors got Covid. No pickup for a couple of weeks. Finally came yesterday, or today or the day before yesterday, it’s all a blur to me.
They hit a point of no return. I bet when the first suit came to the surface they could have sold off somethings and settled. I wonder what his plan was. He’s a smart guy, he must’ve known this was going to catch up with him. Lawyers that represent class actions make a shit ton of money. And now he’s lost all credibility and will likely be disbarred, just because he didn’t tell Erika to fire her staff and wear the endless clothes in the closet and sold the second plane.
This is the problem I am having. I thought Tom was smarter than this. I guess he just got desperate and did some stupid shit? The firm is gone, his law license is gone, and he will likely die in prison.
It truly does not make sense. I could wrap my head around Joe and Teresa become the explanation was simple, they were crooks, and crooks don’t wait for the delayed gratification of building something over years. But Tom built over the span of a long career one of the most successful firms. How do you suddenly throw all that away in the final years of your career? And the explanations that he was trying to satiate Erika’s constant need for more also doesn’t make sense. Most people want more but live within their means and decide on a budget with their partners. She still could have been doing the Erika Jayne thing without hemorrhaging money. They were legitimately rich. I need someone to explain the psychology of this to me.
I thought the divorce was the weirdest part. No woman who marries and old rich man bails on the marriage this close to “the finish line.” This is something they concocted together,
Or she just has no use for him if he can’t afford her her lifestyle (complete with glam squad), so as soon as she realized that was over, so was the marriage.
yeah, now that we know he is flat broke and deeply in debt … I guess you are correct.
I keep thinking back to one of her earlier appearances where she said she had to run her purchases by him first and couldn’t buy jewelry for herself. It sounded old-fashioned and shocking (to me anyway) but responsible. From that to this? IDGI either.
The Girardis give a whole new meaning to Con Air.
I understand that when the firm takes a case on contingency it has to “float” all of the expenses. I understand that until the cases are settled that money is going out and not coming in. I understand in our PERSONAL LIVES we sometimes rob Peter to pay Paul. But HOW did that settlement come in where the firm could get to it? I THOUGHT the funds were held in an escrow account, the firm submitted expenses and fees and THEN the remaining settlement was put in a TRUSTEE account where NO ONE could get it but the clients. So not only did the firm fuck up, it sounds like someone else fucked up too — the system. Every attorney knows you NEVER EVER touch a client’s money. Even when you think that you will pay it back after the windfall from the Pat the Puss tour comes in (bwahahaha) and no one will be the wiser.
Until this, I thought Rita Wilson’s albums were the worst vanity project fronted by hubby’s money.
LMAO the pat the puss windfall
Yes. the fact that Tom allegedly comingled client funds is what is going to get him disbarred. That’s like #1 on the illegal things you can’t do as a lawyer list. This is law school 101. Which is why it is so shocking that Tom seems to have done just that.
Isn’t that what Dolores’s husband Frank did?
Yes, but on a much smaller scale. He helped himself to a “friend’s” escrow account for a home purchase to the tune of about $150,000. I don’t think he got any jail time and it seems he repayed the amount. Tom doesn’t appear to have the money he owes to multiple, people.
You can take the girl out of the strip club, but you can’t take the strip club out of the girl.
I wonder if he just got desperate, trying to keep up with her spending habits, the girl can’t travel without at least three guys telling her how fabulous she is , then factor in all the clothes and shit she buys and finance her music career, I just can’t even begin to imagine how much that adds up to every year
Didn’t she brag her glam is $40,000/month?
I say brag because why else say?
And it will all be for not. The damage she is going to experience so out weighs any benefits which were short lived.
So dumb it still makes me dizzy.