Like Erika Jayne and Tom Girardi they are forced to repay a huge amount of money they owe

Los Angeles barred attorney Tom Girardi and his former law firm filed for bankruptcy in 2020. As a result, they face a mountain of civil lawsuits from former clients, partners and lenders who would not get paid. agreements and fees due to them. (Reports indicate that Girardi et al embezzled more than half a billion dollars in funds to bolster their own pockets.) His now ex-wife Erika Jayne, of The real housewives of Beverly Hills fame, she was also named in those lawsuits, due to allegations that she helped the plans by funneling the company’s money to its entertainment company, EJ Global. The latest is that the former spouses are forced to repay a large sum of money owed through another auction.

John Moran Auctioneers & Appraisers Group will oversee the auction of more than 200 items on September 21, with online auctions opening days earlier, according to speed cameras online. Apparently, a handful of Girardis’ prized personal items are at stake, including an estimated $ 60,000 Steinway piano, some rare paintings, and his library collection of first editions of him (such as a first edition by Niccolò Machiavelli Prince).

The whole lot would fetch about $ 280,000 in bankruptcy compensation. Obviously, this is far from the supposed total nine figures in question. Sin embargo, el 80 por ciento de las ventas de la subasta están programadas para ir directly to one of the prestamistas de Tom Girardi, California Attorney Lending II Inc., quien ya presented a demand of $ 6 millones against el hombre de 83 años y su agency. The remaining 20% ​​would go to unsecured creditors with similar credits.

However, Tom Girardi’s family had apparently quarreled over some of the items that were part of the auction. Radar Online reported in July that his brother had requested the waiver on his behalf. He wanted to keep most of his furniture off the lot, as well as the Steinway. But that clearly didn’t work in his favor.

However, this isn’t the first auction attempt to help the former lawyer pay the money owed. In August 2021, several more expensive items went on sale, such as a poster for the 2000 film signed by Julie Roberts. Erin Brockovich, which was based on the now defunct Girardi & Keese law firm, as well as other memorabilia. But it was also the lingerie included in the package that confused Erika Jayne at the time, as she claimed they weren’t even hers.

There is also the matter of Erika Jayne’s $ 1.4 million earrings that she allegedly refused to hand over to the trustee in charge of handling bankruptcy claims and auctions. (A paper trail would have shown that Tom Girardi took money from an industry drug deal to buy it.) The real housewives of Beverly Hills alum argued over the earrings in court, but eventually a judge ordered her to turn them over because they were technically considered “stolen property,” whether or not she knew they were there.

Lawsuits continue to pile up elsewhere against Erika Jayne and her ex. Nicolas Cage’s ex is suing the couple for hundreds of thousands of dollars. There’s also this $ 5 million civil suit, in which the TV personality claimed she was extorted. Likewise, he was rewarded with the $ 50 million class action action suit upon returning from vacation. And apparently he owes several million back taxes to top it all off.

So, overall, it seems that things are still largely unresolved on these legal issues. Although I can’t say much about the twelfth season currently airing the The real housewives of Beverly Hills. Erika Jayne called the situation an “embarrassment” in one episode, but she also hinted that some of the claims were or will be false. For more information, check out the new episodes airing Wednesday night on Bravo or the next day on Peacock Premium.