Erika Jayne Faces Racketeering Lawsuit Amid Claims She ‘Spread Lies’ to ‘Prolong’ Tom Girardi’s Firm’s Fraud Scheme

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Getting pulled back in? Erika Jayne is facing a new lawsuit amid estranged husband Tom Girardi’s ongoing legal woes.In a new case from Edelson PC, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 50, has been accused of using her public platform to “prolong” Girardi Keese’s alleged fraud scheme, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, April 5.“We believe we will be able to prove to a jury that Tom’s firm was a long-running criminal enterprise, spanning over a decade and stealing over $100 million, much of [which] went into funding Tom and Erika’s outrageous lifestyle,” Jay Edelson from Edelson PC told Us in a statement on Tuesday. “Our filing makes clear what we have said from the start: we will fight tirelessly to hold all of the wrongdoers accountable.”The new case, which was filed in the U.S.

District Court — Northern District of California San Francisco, claims that Erika buried the truth about her 82-year-old estranged spouse’s alleged wrongdoings while they were married. (The pair called it quits in November 2020 after two decades of marriage.)“We are aware, when it comes to Erika, that she has a powerful megaphone.

We believe she has been using that megaphone to spread lies which enabled her husband’s firm to prolong its fraud,” Edelson’s statement continued. “It’s time for her to stop the lies and start taking some accountability.”In the April filing — which is part of the Lion Air Flight JT 610 Crash case that has been going on since November 2018, with Erika initially being sued in December 2020 — Edelson claims that the Bravo personality’s lavish lifestyle is evidence of her and Tom’s misuse of funds.“Tom and Erika routinely misappropriated client settlement money to project an image of wealth