Erika Jayne accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tom Girardi in $2.1 million lawsuit

LOS ANGELES — A brand new lawsuit accuses “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne of “aiding and abetting” with the alleged monetary wrongdoings of estranged husband Tom Girardi.

The $2.1 million lawsuit filed Thursday, claims that Jayne, 50, knew about an alleged “scheme,” through which Girardi, 82, withheld a money settlement from his regulation associate and their consumer Kathleen Bajgrowicz, the mom of the late NFL participant Chuck Osborne.

Girardi and Manuel Miller represented Bajgrowicz in a lawsuit towards the NFL involving Osborne’s 2012 dying. The lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that Girardi didn’t disburse the agreed-upon legal professional’s charges and settlement cash to Miller and Bajgrowicz.

The go well with says that Jayne “knew concerning the scheme” that funded her “notoriously lavish way of life chronicled on ‘The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.’” It additionally alleges that she “aided and abetted Girardi’s breach of fiduciary obligation and has direct legal responsibility for collaborating in and facilitating the conduct.”

The grievance accuses Jayne and her firm of “monetary elder abuse” and seeks to carry them chargeable for the “damages attributable to their tortuous conduct.”

Jayne’s legal professional Evan Borges denied the allegations.

“The grievance is one other misguided effort accountable Erika for the conduct of others through which she had no half,” Borges mentioned in a press release to NBC Information. “Erika has no regulation diploma and by no means labored at or managed her former husband’s regulation agency. No matter Mr. Girardi or others at his regulation agency did or mentioned to the plaintiffs on this case, Erika had no data or function in any of it.”

The “focus needs to be on Mr. Girardi, his regulation agency and anybody else who enabled what he did,” Borges mentioned.

“Piling on Erika could generate publicity, but it surely’s with none foundation in regulation or reality,” he continued.

Girardi, who has been recognized with Alzheimer’s and is in a court-ordered conservatorship, has been accused of misappropriating purchasers’ settlement funds. His brother, who’s his authorized guardian, has mentioned that Girardi “won’t ever apply regulation once more” and was not contesting fees by the California State Bar that he misappropriated settlement funds. 

Earlier this 12 months, Jayne was dismissed from a separate lawsuit that alleged that Girardi embezzled $2 million from the households of vcitimis of the 2018 Lion Air crash in Indonesia. The lawsuit alleged that Girardi stored the funds to “help a unending spending spree by himself and Jayne.” An legal professional for the plaintiffs in that case has mentioned that he would refile that go well with in California” to “keep away from fights over jurisdiction.”

Jayne filed for divorce in November 2020, a month earlier than the lawsuit was filed. A decide dominated to freeze Girardi’s belongings in a separate case later that December.

Girardi was disbarred by a California decide in August 2021.