Erika Jayne was tried after being accused of spending 24 million dollars in fraudulent funds
A judge was officially assigned in the trial high against Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika JayneWith a test that should take place this summer.
The trial, tabled in 2021 Tom Girard Bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, accuses Erika to receive $ 24 million in funds from “Trust accounts held by Girardi’s law firm, Girardi Keese” – money for customers but allegedly used to support Erika Lifestyle and entertainment career.
Erika Jayne denies reprehensible acts while the legal drama intensifies
While Erika Jayne52 Erika “Science and willingly participated” in Tom fraudulent activity.
In court documents, Miller says that Erika used “Tom’s Personal American Express Account” to cover expenses “engaged in search of his entertainment career”, and that Tom “personally paid his invoices and invoices”.
The trustee’s team claims that these payments have been falsely recorded as “loans” on the books of the law firm.
Companies also appointed in a trial
In addition to name Erika Personally, the trustee also pursues its two companies: “EJ Global, LLC” and “Pretty Mess, Inc.”
The trial stipulates: “Ms. Girardi knowingly and willingly participated in Mr. Girardi’s criminal enterprise, and the money used to pay for her commercial expenses was because of this criminal enterprise.”
Erika The legal team postponed, arguing that any payment had been made to “EJ Global, LLC” as the alleged business debt, “do not Erika personally.”
“No order ratings exist,” said his team, noting that “Girardi Keese has never created a written agreement” describing the debt of EJ Global.
Erika’s lawyers say she trusted her husband
Erika Lawyers also seek to strike what they call malicious and unproven claims, declaring: “The accusations that Ms. Girard knowingly and willingly participated in a criminal enterprise is false, and not supported by any evidence, malicious and should be struck.”
They also argue that “Erika’s only misconduct”, trusted her husband, who at the time was a “successful and sophisticated lawyer”.
Tom Girardi’s conviction and health problems
In 2024, Tom Girard was “found guilty of embezzlement of more than $ 15 million” of customers. However, “his conviction was delayed” because of his state of health. Girardi, 84, received a diagnosis of “late Alzheimer’s disease” in 2021 and currently lives in a “memory care establishment”.
Erika Jayne does not settle down, as an initiate
With a judge now assigned to the case, sources say “Erika does not intend to settle. »»
An initiate close to the legal battle told The US sun“”[Erika’s] will never settle.
This means that the very publicized affair should be played in court later this year – placing the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star at the center of what could be one of the greatest adjacent trials of reality TV in the decade.
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