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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne s lawyer husband Tom Girardi testified in the fall that he s broke At one point I had about 80million or 50million in cash. That’s all gone, Girardi said this fall during testimony in one case
Girardi, 81, faces a slew of lawsuits accusing him of mishandling clients funds
He also faces demands in court for payment from creditors, lendors, his first wife and a security company that once guarded his Pasadena mansion
On Monday an Illinois judge froze his and his law firm s assets
In that case he was accused of mishandling money meant to go to the families of victims who died in the 2018 Lion Air crash
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From his Wilshire Boulevard office, Tom Girardi has dominated consumer law in California and beyond for decades, wresting billions of dollars from drug companies, carmakers and polluters on behalf of the injured and cheated, most famously in the case that inspired “Erin Brockovich.”
His cut of those legal victories, up to 40%, brought him spectacular wealth. With his third wife, a pop singer known as Erika Jayne, he appears on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” flaunting the couple’s historic Pasadena estate and lifestyle: private planes, jewelry, exotic cars, couture-filled closets and vacations in Aspen and Mykonos.
The millions Girardi poured into Democratic political campaigns made him a confidant of generations of power brokers, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who last year gave the attorney an official role in filling coveted state judgeships.