Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne’s husband Tom Girardi faces claims he may have used a “straw” company — designed to appear as a staffing business — to funnel money fraudulently and illegally to himself and others, RadarOnline.com reported. According to court documents, the trustee presiding over the involuntary chapter 7 for Girardi’s now-defunct law firm Girardi Keese has filed a bombshell lawsuit seeking the return of $866,558 in alleged fraudulent transfers in the years before the bankruptcy. Girardi was once a well-respected lawyer in Los Angeles, but that all came crashing down in 2020. Jayne’s husband was accused of running his firm like a Ponzi scheme for years, with many of his former clients claiming he stiffed them on money owed. In bankruptcy court, claims totaling over $500 million were filed in the case, but Girardi had little assets to his name. Jayne has been dragged into numerous legal battles over her husband’s alleged financial misdeeds. The Bravo star has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
