Erika Jayne Sued, Allegedly ‘Aided and Abetted’ Tom Girardi’s ‘Scheme’

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Erika’s lawyer responded to the newest lawsuit filed in opposition to her in an announcement to Us, claiming, “The grievance is one other misguided effort guilty Erika for the conduct of others through which she had no half. Erika has no legislation diploma and by no means labored at or managed her former husband’s legislation agency. No matter Mr. Girardi or others at his legislation agency did or stated to the plaintiffs on this case, Erika had no information or function in any of it. The main focus needs to be on Mr. Girardi, his legislation agency and anybody else who enabled what he did. Piling on Erika might generate publicity, but it surely’s with none foundation in legislation or truth.”

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The drama continues. Erika Jayne is being sued in one more lawsuit amid her ongoing authorized woes with estranged husband Tom Girardi.

Paperwork filed on Thursday, February 17, and obtained by Us Weekly, declare that Erika, 50, “knew in regards to the scheme” allegedly performed by Girardi, 82, to withhold cash from shoppers. The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star is being sued for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary responsibility and for monetary elder abuse.

Lawyer Manuel H. Miller and Kathleen Bajgrowicz declare of their grievance that the Broadway performer “aided and abetted Girardi’s breach of fiduciary responsibility and has direct legal responsibility for collaborating in and facilitating the conduct.” The “victims” of the previous lawyer’s supposed wrongdoings “have been funding [Erika’s] notoriously lavish life-style chronicled on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills,” the docs allege.

Miller and Bajgrowicz, the mom of the late NFL star Chuck Osborne, are suing for $277,630.40 and $1,889,150.50, respectively.

Osborne died in 2012 after repeated head trauma, and Bajgrowicz was collectively represented by Girardi and Miller when she sued the NFL over her son’s loss of life. The attorneys agreed to share their charges. When a settlement was reached with the league, Girardi was allegedly tasked with distributing the cash to Bajgrowicz and Miller.

“Unknown to Plaintiffs, Girardi had already taken their cash and breached his and the agency’s fiduciary responsibility to distribute the funds to Plaintiffs,” the pair declare of their lawsuit, accusing the Colorado native of “lull[ing] Plaintiffs into believing that the funds couldn’t be distributed to anybody till varied points have been first resolved.”

Bajgrowicz and Miller allege that Erika was “intimately concerned” along with her then-husband’s enterprise and “needs to be required to compensate Plaintiffs for the hurt” that was supposedly inflicted.

The Bravo character was married to Girardi for greater than 20 years earlier than submitting for divorce in November 2020. Amid their cut up, the twosome have been slammed with a number of lawsuits accusing them of embezzling cash and defrauding shoppers. Erika’s ups and downs have been documented on season 11 of RHOBH as she continued to take care of her innocence.

“This has been the darkest a part of my life,” she stated of her authorized woes throughout an look on E!’s Every day Pop earlier this month. “Simply essentially the most determined, most afraid I’ve ever been in my life. Most uncertain, most risky.”

The Fairly Mess creator continued: “I’ve been indignant, I’ve been unhappy, I’ve been comfortable, I’ve been every little thing. And it’s actually challenged me to my core.”

Erika claimed that she’s unfairly held the brunt of the backlash, including, “You recognize, after they can’t get to that man, then they flip to his companion. … I believe that I’ve taken quite a lot of the eye that needs to be for different individuals.”

Final month, the Dancing With the Stars alum scored a small victory when the complaints in opposition to her in Illinois have been “dismissed with out prejudice and with out trigger.” Although there’s nonetheless an extended solution to go, Erika is “in a greater place,” in keeping with costar Dorit Kemsley.

“She went by means of rather a lot and I believe she’s popping out the opposite facet and he or she’s feeling higher and feeling stronger,” she advised Us completely in January. “I believe it’s nonetheless, you already know, a battle and it’s not over, however I believe that she is doing higher and higher.”