Lawyer suing Tom and Erika Girardi tells podcast he believes RHOBH star was ‘incredibly involved’ in husband’s alleged fraud
- Class-action attorney Jay Edelson said suit could lead to seizing their assets
- Edelson’s firm reps victims of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in October 2018
- All 189 people onboard died on the flight, leading to legal action
- Erika and Tom are both named as defendants in the lawsuit filed by Edelson
- Erika filed for divorce from Tom in November 2020
- A doc titled The Housewife And The Hustler was released Monday on Hulu documenting the couple’s legal troubles
A lawyer suing Erika Girardi and her husband Tom Girardi said in a podcast interview Wednesday that he believes he can prove the reality star, who has not been charged with any crimes, was ‘incredibly involved’ in fraud allegedly perpetrated by her estranged husband.
Class-action attorney Jay Edelson, 48, told Reality Life With Kate Casey that if his lawsuit against Erika and Tom was successful her possessions could be seized and auctioned off.
Edelson’s firm represents victims of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in October 2018 and he filed a lawsuit last year in federal court accusing Tom Girardi, 82, of embezzling settlement funds from ‘widows and orphans’ to fund a lavish lifestyle chronicled by Erika, 49, on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.
Reality star: A lawyer suing Erika Girardi, shown last month in Los Angeles, and her husband Tom Girardi said in a podcast interview Wednesday that he believes he can prove the reality star, who has not been charged with any crimes, was ‘incredibly involved’ in fraud allegedly perpetrated by her estranged husband
‘We believe we’re going to be able to prove that Erika was incredibly involved in not just the law firm, but also, he was loaning money to her company 10s of millions of dollars to her company,’ Edelson said.
‘And we think that money came from client funds. And we’re going to look into all of that. And that’s all going to be, you know, part of proof that we showed to a jury — that she was knee-deep in this fraud, and she can say, ‘Oh, she didn’t know anything about it.’ And I think that’s going be hard for to convince a jury of,’ he added.
Edelson PC in its December lawsuit alleged that Tom and Erika ‘are on the verge of financial collapse and locked in a downward spiral of mounting debts and dwindling funds’.
Erika filed for divorce from Tom in November 2020 a month before they were both named as defendants in the lawsuit filed by Edelson.
The defendants: Edelson PC in its December lawsuit alleged that Tom and Erika, shown in January 2017 in West Hollywood, ‘are on the verge of financial collapse and locked in a downward spiral of mounting debts and dwindling funds’
A documentary titled The Housewife And The Hustler was released Monday on Hulu documenting the couple’s legal troubles.
‘She was basically taking client funds and using it to fund her lifestyle. And if we’re successful (in their case), that means that we’re going to be able to get whatever possessions she has back in order to pay off any sort of judgment,’ Edelson said.
‘So there’s no exception of you know, this is a valuable piece of artwork. I mean, it gets really nasty when you get a judgment and someone doesn’t want to pay, you literally can depose them and say we want to go through your purse, take out the possessions in your purse, what is that? You know, that is no longer yours. Yeah, it gets really, really nasty,’ he added.
Reality podcast: Class-action attorney Jay Edelson, 48, told Reality Life With Kate Casey that if his lawsuit against Erika and Tom was successful her possessions could be seized and auctioned off
Incredibly involved: ‘We believe we’re going to be able to prove that Erika was incredibly involved in not just the law firm, but also, he was loaning money to her company 10s of millions of dollars to her company,’ said Edelson, shown in an undated photo
Edelson also commented on the couple’s dynamics and said he didn’t view Erika as a victim.
‘I will go to my grave saying that Erica is the smarter of the two of them. I just, I fundamentally believe that. My view of Tom is that he is such a fragile ego,’ he said.
‘So I wonder, I have no idea what their relationship was like, but she she played him pretty well. …So, I don’t view her as a victim. I view her as kind of, you know, she was kind of conning the con man,’ Edelson said.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Erika for comment on Edelson’s interview.
New documentary: A documentary titled The Housewife And The Hustler was released Monday on Hulu documenting the couple’s legal troubles
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