Yesterday, attorneys representing the creditors seeking to claim assets in Erika Girardi’s possession filed a court motion aimed at requiring Erika Girardi and her accountant, Michael Ullman, produce a series of financial documents for their investigation into Erika’s finances. They asking for bank statements, receipts, pay stubs, and all communications between Ullman and Erika’s divorce attorney, Larry Ginsburg.
“Erika has refused to provide access to her management company, her CPA which also houses her management company, any books and records of EJ Global or any of her affiliated companies. As each day goes by, Erika has been publicly dissipating community assets by selling her clothes on public websites, flaunting large jewels on social media and on television, and has done nothing to assist in return structured firm payments being made to her instead of the firm by the California lottery, notwithstanding she was contacted through counsel over twelve days ago.” Why would the California lottery be sending payment to the law firm? UPDATE! TOM sued the California lottery over a Keno game they had briefly that turned out to violate the law. Clients requested the money they lost playing because the the state cannot profit from illegal activity.
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“At every turn, Erika has used the glam to continue to aid and abet this sham transactions that have been occurring with respect to large transfers of assets from the [Girardi Keese] to Erik. Moreover, the Trustee has received zero cooperation from Erika which is constant [sic] with someone hiding assets.” The motion claims that Erika used her companies, including the newly created Pretty Mess Inc, created after the bankruptcy, to hide her assets, and has blocked access to Ullman while continuing to show off public displays of wealth.
Does this sound like the behavior of someone who had no clue about where her money was coming from? I’d like to get to the criminal prosecution portion of this side show. PEOPLE magazine was the source for the details of this motion.
UPDATE TWO: Update for the legal nerds CLICK HERE TO READ THE FILING IN IT’S ENTIRETY!
She knew. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that she knew. Even in the last RHOBH episode, Erika dropped a hell of a lot of clues that suggest to me that she knew what was going down, and that she didn’t want to go down with Tom’s sinking ship of a law-firm-turned-ponzi-scheme.
Yep!!
I second this.
Anyone out there still defending her behavior?
Sadly, yes. Some of her castmates continue to make excuses for her, a certain Housewife from another franchise made a fool of herself (again) to praise Erika, and the comments on Erika’s IG can get really bizarre.
Updated to explain the lottery stuff.
Your purple pen comment about the state not being able to make money thru the illegal activity of the lottery is so ironic. What an entitled dumbass she is
Erika didn’t file (and apparently win) that lawsuit. It was a random couple in California who hired Tom. The situation is that that person’s financial judgement is somehow going to ERIKA rather that Girardi Keese. It’s kind of weird/complicated.
And let’s remember that she was subpoenaed TWICE just weeks before they shot the episodes that were filmed in Lake Tahoe. You know, where she’s gushing about “eating dinner with Tom every night” and how “Tom let’s me be me.” etc. etc.
She knew.
I think the subpoenas were what initiated the divorce and not Tom’s failure to say “Good morning” to her on “that fateful day.” The timeline works out.
She’s so full of crap that her breath smells like shit.
If I was in her shoes, and I found out what my husband had done I wouldn’t be able to stand looking at all that treasure. How you wouldn’t be loading up clothes and paintings and gold into sacks and handing it to those poor people is beyond me. She could take a ring off her finger and pay for a single surgery for that young man who was badly burned. I am very rarely fooled by people. Due to the lines of work I have been in I just have an especially strong BS detector and I usually have people’s number pretty quickly and Tom Girardi is one of the few people who had me completely fooled. I totally see how he charmed judges and buddies in the bar association, but that is no excuse after the third, fourth, fifth complaint against him over the 40 years people were speaking out against him. These two deserve the longest sentence possible in the yuckiest facility you have.
I hear you….you would think a good PR person would tell Erika “Honey, sell some of your stuff and give the money directly to those people on that documentary to save face”. Even if she didn’t truly mean it or believe in it….someone in PR should have said – girl…stop showing OFF!
They probably did say that.
I think a PR person DID get to her and told her to go out, be seen with no hair-do, a t-shirt, no-glam, doing something ordinary like pumping gas so people will think you have had to cut back. The remark on her t-shirt, “Billionaire Boys Club”, in those Daily Mail photos was, I think, her attempt at sarcasm. She had on those attention-getting sunglasses and let her hair go free. All of those actions were, to me, calculated to get attention and sympathy–hardly “caught-on-camera.” I’m just not sure her calculations are correct here–like refusing to open the books…very weird to me.
You can’t do this when facing criminal prosecution. It’s an admission of guilt.
Tom did not “charm” his way through the bar association and the California political elites, Gavin Newsom included; he “bought” his way by sharing some of ill obtained wealth to their political campaigns and careers. This case is just the tip of the iceberg in the corruption scheme that is rampant in the state of California
Not that bright she won’t like what happens when you don’t cooperate. Can’t say no forever unless this has to be a stall tactic. Not a lawyer but I would imagine on some level she would be advised to cooperate?
Does anyone remember what Erikas two truths and a lie were? Something struck me as bizarre about what she said but I can’t remember because I didn’t know all of this at the time
She was adopted
She cooperated in a federal investigation.
Some nonsense about Mafia involvement.
The lawyer in Chicago was asked. He said something along the lines of doubt it. Hypothetically speaking if this were true. I doubt the feds would allow her to keep her fancy clothes, jewelry and paintings. Also why refuse financial documents?
Maybe she wants to be the new Teflon Don but in Gucci🤪
The filed documents are impressive! She will have to open her books for full examination! It will be interesting to see the paper trail for how the money was booked and where it went from there!
UPDATED AGAIN WITH A LINK TO THE COMPLETE MOTION FOR THE LEGAL NERDS. See Post.
That would be me, thanks!
Me too! I feel like I haven’t seen you in awhile! xoxoxoxo
You’re the fahhking best. You don’t even know.
meh. I’m ahright. 🙂
I can’t believe that Twitter lawyer got himself this real gig following this close!! How does he have time to follow all this trash and do all this media and still be a real lawyer???
And it makes me sad because he can’t comment about his own case on Twitter anymore.
He literally posted this on Twitter. He is allowed to comment on the case on Twitter.
The podcast he did was very interesting (Up & Adam) and worth a listen. He was obviously walking a very tight line on what he is allowed to say now.
With this guy, I have a feeling we will eventually get the whole story, or at least as much of it as he can dig out. But that might be a while…
Oh I can’t wait for her to go down. With every ounce of my being I will celebrate. And I’ll tell you this… if these women on this show still go along with her little act, I’m done with all of them. If they put Denise through HELL over a threesome, but won’t speak up to Miss Ugly Mess Erika over this and her follow up behaviors? Nope. That will surely be the end of RHOBH and any of the cast who enable this behavior for me.
They won’t. They’ve shown time and time again that they will stab whoever in the back to save their own asses. If they continue with this charade, their names might as well be mud. No one will want to associate with them.
This doesn’t look good for her.
A part of me feels sympathy for Erika … hear me out before you jump on me, please! She was a young mother who obviously didn’t have the best judgement. Here she marries an older, “wiser”, filthy-rich older man and she’s outta the strip club. Can’t say that if in my 20’s, in the same situation, I wouldn’t have done the same thing. He is the lawyer. He ruled the roost there. Can you imagine questioning him about money and legal documents? I can’t. I’m not saying she is completely innocent but I think she went along with everything not understanding the full extent. Coercive Control in relationships is a real thing. That being said, I think she enjoyed the perks of her life but it costs a lot to be “kept”. When you stay for money, you “earn” it. It can cost you your soul. Right now, with all the legal maneuvering that has to be done, I’m sure she’s trying to figure out how to lessen her exposure and come out of this with some kind of life. I don’t agree with all her behavior but I also think lawyers are scum and he should bear the brunt of his actions. He was the lawyer and he was in control. I’m sure he is trying to pin this all on her and his health. He is disgusting and knew what he was doing. She went along for the ride but I don’t think she really had that much of a choice. He will die and she will be paying for her participation. I was married and in a situation where I really didn’t have a say and was controlled. I left and believe me, I am paying for it and probably will for the rest of his life. There are many times that I think my life would’ve been financially easier if I stayed and turned a blind eye. It’s not always easy to do the right thing and get out, especially with a wealthy narcissist who comes across as a charming “good guy”. I’m more interested in her actions once all the lawyers go away.
I agree, but yea unpopular opinion. He talked to her like a he was her college professor or something. She was in no position to be inspecting his books. And why wouldn’t he have made $20M this month? I don’t see how she would know anything beyond what he wanted her to know.
Even lawsuits or rumors or depositions don’t necessarily mean there were red flags to me. Rich people are targets and get sued all the time. And with 900 cases (!) how wouldn’t he get sued eventually, true or not?
This is from one of the victims on Twitter:
Kimberly Archie
@kimberlyarchie
So when the Ruigomez family spelled it out in their lawsuit in June 2019 in which Erika was subpoenaed TWICE to appear for a debtor’s exam, yet she never knew??? Still? And she didn’t divorce him because he did this, but because he’s transactional with her?
She filed for divorce to try and separate her assets. But that isn’t going to happen. I don’t understand how she is selling her clothes again online. There was an injunction against her doing exactly that.
I don’t know, either. The victims should be first in line to receive any penny that she gets, the items were bought with their money after all.
Last I checked, she can’t sell the clothes. I’ve clicked throughout her store, if u click on an item it says currently not available.
I haven’t check in a while. She was forbidden to do it, and they were taken down but at some point recently she seemed to be at least trying to do it again. Maybe the Not AVAILABLE thing was up then. And she wasn’t aware she was blocked still. That would make sense. I can’t imagine the trustees allowing it.
Story about dropping him off at work doesn’t make sense. Who picked him up at the end of the day? Why didn’t he drive himself to work or have a driver? Is this a fake divorce so she can hide all the money? Why are the other housewife supporting her so much?
Because she’s LYING. This has everything to do with finances and nothing to do with “he didn’t tell me he loved me” bullshit. Give me a break
That whole story about “If you can afford her, you can have her”? THAT made you feel like a prostitute? THAT? Miss I wear “Cunt” as a necklace lol
The divorce was strictly to shelter assets with Erika. That is not working out so well for her.
Those stoopid reasons she said on the show did her zero favors.
I thought it was as simple as she wanted her pop career, he needed to hide money, bam, welcome Erika Jayne.
Has anyone read her book?
To the lawyers or those versed in the legal system. Why is she saying no? Also they can order her to turn over her books. Why stall? It seems like a bad tactic. Curious to hear the opinions!
Erika is cool and calculating, not like Theresa who was raised you get married and do whatever your husband tells you to because as a good old fashioned Italian wife you don’t question your husband. Erika sought out a rich husband and I have a gut feeling she researched Tom before she agreed to marry him. In no way do I believe she was ever in the dark about this mess. If she wasn’t so in love with her lavish lifestyle, she should have went to prosecutors years ago and turned against Tom and dimed him out. But I’m a cold person so there is that.
I am vicious when you do me wrong LOL. Could she be cooperating but not so anyone knows?
And her acting skills are pathetic, but she knows that she is protected by the Fed’s?
If you want to get really dark, the best case scenario for her would have been for him to die before any of this caught up with him. Looks like that didn’t work out. These bankruptcy documents are just talking about insane amounts of money… And those have to be judgments from the people suing him for their money, I think?
Was anyone else freaked out by Tom’s temper? I was.
Yeah it was weird! And everyone got quiet.
Pardon me! I’m speaking!
Hell, I have not been a sunflower many moments in my long years married.
Tom had one moment, with this bunch of attention seekers, I think “pardon me, I’m speaking” is not bad. LOL
Plus, that sounds exactly like courtroom talk when the other side cuts you off.
I can definitely see this side. Who was she to question him on his business dealings?
She knows now, though. How is she not compelled to sell her jewelry at least, maybe half of her gaudy designer clothing and offer it to Tom’s victims? Her callous attitude is mind-boggling and gross.
FYI. Billionaire Boys Club is a trendy fashion brand. T-shirts start around $80 and woven shirts and shorts about $140.
I am trying to understand her objectives. If she cooperates maybe the judges will give her an ounce of leniency. However using stall tactics until the judge forces her to comply will negate any leniency she was hoping for.
I have a feeling that the bankruptcy court doesn’t appreciate anything but honesty, transparency, and cooperation with the judges orders.
This game playing she should realize that Tom got caught! He’s not all that. Shoot every one gets caught.
Eventually. What a waste. What a horrible mother to put her son through this. What a horrible stepdad and father to put his family through this.
So many victims and she (Erika) is not one of them.
Ugh, ugh, and UGH.