Erika Jayne faces a new $2.1million lawsuit for ‘aiding and abetting’ husband Tom Girardi in alleged embezzlement activities
- Lawsuit claims she was aware of Tom Girardi’s alleged embezzlement activities
- It also states she was ‘intimately involved in Girardi & Keese’s business dealings’
- And was aware that victims were ‘funding her notoriously lavish lifestyle’
- Her attorney, Evan C. Borges, released a statement to PEOPLE
- ‘The complaint is another misguided effort to blame Erika for the conduct of others in which she had no part,’ it was stated
Erika Jayne is looking at new legal troubles as she faces a $2.1million lawsuit that claims she was aware of ex-husband Tom Girardi’s alleged embezzlement activities.
Filed on Thursday, the complaint accuses The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 50, along with her company EJ Global, LLC, of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tom, 82, and his law firm Girardi & Keese.
It also states she was ‘intimately involved in Girardi & Keese’s business dealings’ and was aware that victims were ‘funding her notoriously lavish lifestyle.’
Legal troubles: Erika Jayne, 50, is looking at new legal troubles as she faces a $2.1 million lawsuit that claims she was aware of ex-husband Tom Girardi’s, 82, alleged embezzlement activities; Pictured September 2021 in Las Vegas
The Atlanta-born star’s attorney, Evan C. Borges, released a statement to PEOPLE saying: ‘The complaint is another misguided effort to blame Erika for the conduct of others in which she had no part.’
Borges went on to add, ‘Erika has no law degree and never worked at or managed her former husband’s law firm.’
It was continued: ‘Whatever Mr. Girardi or others at his law firm did or said to the plaintiffs in this case, Erika had no knowledge or role in any of it.’
Borges stated that the focus should be on Mr Girardi, his law firm, and ‘anyone else who enabled what he did.’
He then concluded: ‘Piling on Erika may generate publicity, but it’s without any basis in reality.’
Did she know? The lawsuit states the star was ‘intimately involved in Girardi & Keese’s business dealings’ and was aware that victims were ‘funding her notoriously lavish lifestyle’; Jayne and Girardi pictured in 2017 in West Hollywood
The lawsuit has been filed by attorney Manuel H. Miller and his client Kathleen Bajgrowicz, the mother of the late NFL star Chuck Osborne, and claims Erika ‘knew about the scheme.’
Girardi and Miller represented Bajgrowicz in a lawsuit against the NFL and agreed to share the fees. However, after reaching a settlement with the league, Tom did not distribute the funds to Bajgrowicz and Miller.
Instead, they allege that he ‘lulled Plaintiffs into believing that the funds could not be distributed to anyone until various issues were first resolved.’
‘Unknown to Plaintiffs, Girardi had already taken their money and breached his and the firm’s fiduciary duty to distribute the funds to Plaintiffs,’ the lawsuit claims.
Additionally, the lawsuit also alleges that Jayne and EJ Global knew ‘Girardi was operating a Ponzi scheme’ and had ‘assisted or encouraged Girardi’ because it ‘benefitted them financially.’
Small victory: The lawsuit comes after the reality star recently received a legal victory when she was dismissed from Girardi’s embezzlement and fraud lawsuit in Illinois last month
The lawsuit comes after the reality star recently received a legal victory when she was dismissed from Girardi’s embezzlement and fraud lawsuit in Illinois last month.
Jayne – who parted ways with Girardi in November of 2020 after a 21-year marriage, shortly ahead of the filing of the original suit – spoke to E!’s Daily Pop last Friday claiming she has been a scapegoat.
‘I’ve been the whipping girl for a lot of people and I’ve taken the beating in the public when others should be,’ the star – who is currently working on the 12th season of the Bravo show – stated.
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