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Erika Jayne ‘Hurt’ by Questions About Tom Girardi’s Scandal: People Won’t ‘Let’ Me Move On
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne has distanced herself from husband Tom Girardi, but the 85-year-old’s legal troubles keep coming back to her.
On August 27, the attorney was found guilty on all four charges of fraud in a weeks-long trial that concluded he had embezzled more than $15 million from various clients. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada called him “Robin-Hood-in-reverse, stealing from the needy to support a lavish, Hollywood lifestyle.”
He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each count. (Tom, who has dementia, pled not guilty; Erika, 53, has not been charged with any crimes.)
While Tom still faces a 2025 trial in Chicago on charges that he stole payouts made to families after a plane crash, Erika is ready to move on. “But I don’t know if others will let me,” she told one outlet, saying that being asked about Tom was like “cutting open a healing wound, and you’re stabbing around it, and it hurts.”
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