Erika Jayne’s Ex’s Creditor Demands Trial In $5 Million Legal War with ‘RHOBH’ Star!

Tom Girardi’s creditors want Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Erika Jayne, to stand before a jury. Radar Online has obtained documents that reveal that two law firms suing Erika have officially opposed her request to have the case dismissed.  

The Law Office of Philip R. Sheldon and the law firm of Robert F. Finn believe that they’ve built a strong case and are pushing for a trial.

The lawsuit against the reality star was filed in June. 

The lawsuit, which was originally filed against Tom and his defunct firm, Girardi Keese, added Erika as a defendant, months later. The plaintiffs are seeking $5 million in damages.

The law firms allege that they referred thousands of cases to Tom and Girardi Keese “pursuant to an agreement to share in the attorneys’ fees paid when the cases settled.”

The lawyers behind the lawsuit “are both seniors who devoted the twilight years of their careers to working on these cases with the promise and expectation that they would have the resources necessary to retire once Girardi paid them for the services they performed.”

The lawyers accused Tom of concealing funds and refusing to pay, per their agreement. The plaintiffs believe that the since disbarred lawyer “embezzled and redirected the funds to family members, friends, partners, lenders, and creditors, and used the money to fund outrageously lavish lifestyles for himself and his wife Erika Jayne, who is better known as one of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

“To avoid paying Plaintiffs the amounts owed, Girardi and his firm “loaned” millions of dollars to Girardi’s wife, and then filed a sham “divorce” to fraudulently keep the money from Plaintiffs and other vulnerable victims,” the lawsuit states.

Erika responded by arguing that the lawyers’ and her estranged ex’s alleged fee-sharing agreement “blatantly violated and did not comply with the applicable California Rules of Professional Conduct.”

“There is no evidence – because it never happened – that [Jayne], a non-attorney, allegedly managed or directed the financial affairs of [Girardi Keese], whether related to the transactions between GK and Plaintiffs or otherwise.”

The Bravo star requested that all claims against her be tossed. The two law firms are now asking the court to deny Erika’s request. 

The lawyers argued—“Erika Girardi is the single largest beneficiary of the single largest fraud by a law firm in the history of California.”

The plaintiffs added—“With her help, Ms. Girardi’s husband, Tom Girardi, and his son-in-law, Defendant David Lira, stole more than $100 million from clients and attorneys like Plaintiffs Philip Sheldon and Robert Finn who referred the clients, and Ms. Girardi spent much of that money financing her lavish lifestyle and her expensive and unprofitable dream to become a pop star.”

“[Jayne] admits that she signed all the tax returns for her company EJ Global, LLC, which received at least $25 million from Girardi Keese, and facilitated a massive tax fraud by her, her husband and Girardi Keese. The “career” she had was the conduit for the tax fraud.”

They added that Erika “now conveniently claims she didn’t know anything, she just signed whatever she was asked to sign under penalty of perjury, gave whatever sworn testimony she was asked to give, and didn’t ask any questions of anyone, despite access to numerous attorneys and accountants.”

The lawyers are demanding that the court allow the case to proceed to trial.  

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