Erika Jayne must turn in $750K diamond earrings her estranged husband bought with stolen money

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Erika Jayne has been ordered to turn in a pair of $750,000 diamond earrings after a court determined they were bought with money stolen by her estranged husband Tom Girardi.Judge Barry Russell on Tuesday said that while he did not think the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 50, 'was aware the earrings were stolen property,' she must turn them in as they were paid for with 'settlement funds from the trust account created for a class action handled by Thomas' firm Girardi Keese,' Law360reported, according to US.Girardi, 83, in March 2007 purchased the jewelry for the Atlanta-born reality star with funds from a client trust account and claimed they were case-related expenditures, Us reported in February, citing court docs in the case.

Girardi initially claimed that the earrings were stolen, but they were purportedly located in a safe. The latest:Erika Jayne, 50, has been ordered to turn in a pair of $750,000 diamond earrings after a court determined they were bought with money stolen by her estranged husband Tom Girardi.

She was snapped in LA in 2019Ronald Richards, a lawyer who once worked for the trustee in the case, told US that Jayne 'had tried to argue that too much time had passed and that it was the firm's former clients who should be making this claim, not the trustee.'The court rejected that argument and said the trustee can bring a turnover order for the earrings and forfeited all of Erika's rights in the earrings.' Richards noted that the court 'found the firm embezzled the funds' and that 'the earrings were ordered property of the estate.'Richards on Wednesday told Page Six that 'the ruling was a major milestone in the quest to recover stolen assets by the Girardis,' and that 'it does not matter whether.