Disgraced former attorney Tom Girardi is officially on trial for swindling his own law firm clients out of tens of millions of dollars. Girardi is the estranged ex-husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne.
The Lowdown
The trial of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi [ex hubby to Erika Jayne] is underway. On Tuesday, a Los Angeles court room heard the initial dramatic details of how Girardi used his law firm as a cover to steal tens-of-millions of dollars from unsuspecting clients.
In one notorious case, a man was left severely injured after a house explosion to which Girardi won a $53m settlement on behalf of the client. The problem, however, is that Girardi according to what the court has heard so far told the client that the settlement was only seven million dollars.
Initially thought to be unfit for trial, US District Judge Josephine Staton recently found the disgraced eighty-five-year-old fraudster fit to stand trial for his crimes against his clients. Girardi ‘s career famously came tumbling down in twenty-twenty after it was revealed that he had won a settlement for the victims of the two-thousand-eighteen Lion Air plane crash and kept millions of the settlement for himself.