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Mar 23, 2017 · She bought several dresses for herself, including a slinky number embroidered with hundreds of Swarovski crystals for an intimate family ceremony, as well as dresses for her mother and...
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Nov 29, 2021 · As Edelson and his team sat down, they could see Girardi floating from table to table like a groom at a wedding—he had set up multiple business lunches. His guests’ tables had their own...
Oct 9, 2021 · Mr. Girardi, 82, has been suspended from practicing law in California. He and his firm are bankrupt; he’s been moved into a nursing home; and a judge ruled him incompetent to handle his...
Feb 10, 2023 · Agents under Savage aggressively pursued the case, ending in a federal wire fraud indictment of the company’s co-owner in 2017 and, for Tom Girardi, an American Express refund of about $787,000...
- A Surprise Divorce
- Embezzlement Lawsuit
- A Second Lawsuit
- Tom Placed Under A Conservatorship
- Investigative Documentary Airs
- Issues from Within Erika's Legal Team Arise
- Erika Is Accused of Refusing to Cooperate
- Erika Fires Back
- Erika Faces Accusations of Conspiring with Tom and His Firm
- Tom's Law Firm Auctions Off Belongings
On Nov. 3, 2020, after 22 years of marriage, Erika, 49, filed for divorcefrom Tom, 82. In a statement to PEOPLE at the time, Erika said, "After much consideration, I have decided to end my marriage to Tom Girardi. This is not a step taken lightly or easily. I have great love and respect for Tom and for our years and the lives we built together." "I...
In December, less than a month after the divorce filing, news broke that Erika and Tom were being sued for allegedly using their split to embezzle money. Law firm Edelson PC filed the suit in an Illinois federal court on Dec. 3 on behalf of several families who lost loved ones in a 2018 Boeing plane crash. In the court documents, obtained by PEOPLE...
On Dec. 15, Tom was hit with another lawsuit, this one from his law partner, Robert Keese, and several other former business partners. In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Keese, as well as Robert Finnerty and Jill O'Callahan, sued Tom to dissolve their business venture, known as 1126 Wilshire Partnership. The plaintiffs alleged that Tom never pa...
In March, Tom's lawyers claimed that he had "had issues" with "mental competence" and it was later announced that he had been diagnosed with dementiaand late-onset Alzheimer's disease. He underwent a mental assessment on Feb. 26 as part of his younger brother Robert's petition to become his permanent conservator. Robert was granted a temporary cons...
In June, an ABC News Originals documentary, The Housewife and the Hustler, took an in-depth look at Tom and Erika's legal issues. In the special, streaming on Hulu, various legal experts and those accusing Tom of embezzlement and questionable legal practices discussed the scandals surrounding the former couple. The Housewife and the Hustler also fe...
After the documentary dropped on Hulu, Erika's attorneys moved to stop representing her— only to backtrack and withdraw their motion later that same week. According to a copy of the original motion obtained by PEOPLE, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP — the law firm representing Erika in Tom's Chapter 7 Bankruptcy case — filed paperwork to withdraw as her couns...
In June, Erika was accused of refusing to cooperate in the bankruptcy case facing Tom and Girardi Keese. The bankruptcy trustee's special litigation counsel, attorney Ronald Richards, reported that Girardi Keesetransferred $20 million to Erika's various businesses, including one that Erika created after the news of the embezzlement scandal broke. I...
Two days later, Erika's legal team responded to the motion in their own court filing, asserting that she "has been and remains willing to cooperate fully with the Trustee's investigation in this bankruptcy of debtor Girardi & Keese." In addition to responding to the claims that she has not been cooperative, the reality star requested that the court...
On July 14, Erika was accused of hiding assettransfers and owing Girardi Keese $25 million as the bankruptcy trustee continued to investigate both Tom and the firm. In a court document obtained by PEOPLE, the attorney for the bankruptcy trustee, Ronald Richards, claimed that Erika and two of her businesses, EJ Global, LLC and Pretty Mess, Inc., rec...
In order to begin paying off the creditors in the ongoing bankruptcy case, items from the law offices of Girardi Keese will be sold sometime in August or September, per an auction pageposted by Three Sixty Asset Advisors in July. The items include a Cadillac, vintage books, a piano, wine, art, oriental rugs, sports and music memorabilia and furnitu...
Jun 17, 2021 · In a 2017 episode, Erika discusses her marriage in an interview that plays during a scene of the pair at dinner.
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Aug 18, 2021 · A federal lawsuit accuses prominent Los Angeles attorney Thomas Girardi of stealing funds owed to relatives of plane crash victims to underwrite “a public image of obscene wealth” for himself and...
