For housewives taking note: keep the skeletons in your closet of the textbook variety before joining a reality show, lest you suddenly be, say, contractually obligated to show them to America once a week.
In fact, cameras have been up for all the recent happenings taking place at the intersection of true crime and Real Housewives, including the March 2021 arrest of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah for her alleged role in a years-long telemarketing scheme. Steve Eichnerīlessedly, to use the parlance of Bravophiles, cameras were up, filming the divorce filing and the immediate blowback to the allegations against Girardi, and the months of aftermath that’ll likely turn into years of court dates, depositions, and tight-lipped confessionals. Girardi responded to the filing weeks later, citing “irreconcilable differences.”Ī month after that, the Los Angeles Times released a devastating, deeply reported story detailing Girardi’s alleged fraud and embezzlement, complete with an extremely concise headline: “The legal titan and the ‘Real Housewife’: The rise and fall of Tom Girardi and Erika Jayne.” A lawsuit filed against Tom in Chicago federal court that month expanded on the allegations: “Tom has resorted to embezzling the proceeds of settlements that should have been directed to his clients-including, as the basis for this Complaint, the widows and orphans who lost loved ones in the tragic crash of Lion Air Flight 610-in order to continue funding his and Erika’s lavish Beverly Hills lifestyles.” (Jayne has said on the show that she didn’t know about the allegations against her husband before filing for divorce, though Girardi claimed “I think she does” earlier this week, in response to a paparazzi asking, “Did Erika know anything?”)Įrika Jayne and Tom Girardi in 2016. Last fall, fans were shocked when Jayne quietly filed divorce papers on Election Day. Money, her actions revealed, was no object, making Jayne the perfect fit for a franchise built on excess.Įrika Jayne during a 2020 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. A private jet was flaunted as frequently and matter-of-factly as the designer brands spilling out of her closets. Her songs-loud, sweaty, horny tracks with retrospectively ironic titles like “How Many Fucks?” and “XXPEN$IVE”-were crafted by pricey hitmakers like Justin Tranter (Selena Gomez), Sarah Hudson (Dua Lipa), and frequent Britney Spears background singer Myah Marie. That December, Jayne began a seven-season (and counting!) run as a cast member on Bravo’s hit reality series, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. But in 2015, when the public trained their eyes back on the Girardi family, it was to watch the televised exploits of Erika Jayne, his wife’s leather-and-latex pop star alter ego.
If you see things the same way, then age, race, religion-none of that comes into play.”įor decades, Tom Girardi was the famous one, the lawyer who shot to stardom in the 1990s when he helped the real-life Erin Brockovich secure a $333 million settlement for Hinkley, California residents whose groundwater had been contaminated. All a couple really needs is to have the same life philosophy. “It was always a bigger deal to everyone else than it was to either of us. “Tom is 33 years older than me,” she says. In her 2018 memoir, Pretty Mess, Erika Girardi wrote glowingly of her relationship with her husband.
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