Erika Jayne reacted to claims her estranged husband, Tom Girardi, gave mistress Tricia A. Bigelow $300,000 in misused funds for a beach condo amid their alleged affair.
“Wow. I knew about jewelry, shopping sprees, and plastic surgery but this really threw me for a loop,” Jayne, 51, wrote via Instagram Wednesday.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star’s post was accompanied by a screenshot of the new article from the Los Angeles Times that reported on the bombshell claim.
According to court documents obtained by the outlet, Girardi, 83, used settlement funds meant for his Girardi Keese clients in the 2015 wire transfer that helped Bigelow purchase oceanfront property in Santa Monica, Calif.
The publication explained that the account Girardi used allegedly contained money owed to cancer victims and other residents of a polluted Inland Empire community.
Bigelow’s attorney, Alan Jackson, told the LA Times that the former judge did not know Girardi was allegedly using settlement money, insisting that the transfer “was NOT marked as coming from a [Girardi Keese] trust account.”
Bigelow’s lawyer went on to allege that Girardi “never shared anything with her regarding the source of any gifts.”
The outlet also reported that Jayne was made aware of the $300,000 gift in court earlier this month.
“F—k me,” she said, before her team told her not to use profane language. “No way. No way.”
The Bravolebrity previously accused Girardi of cheating in December 2020, one month after she filed for divorce from the disgraced lawyer.
“This is Justice Tricia A. Bigelow. She was f–king my husband Tom Girardi and he was paying her Saks bill and paying for her plastic surgery,” Jayne wrote on Instagram at the time.
In a July 2021 episode of “RHOBH,” Jayne claimed to her castmates that she had “evidence” of Girardi’s “years-long” infidelity.
“I knew a lot because it was so hard to hide and, you know, he was sloppy,” she said.
Earlier Wednesday, Page Six reported that Jayne scored a win in the $5 million fraud lawsuit Girardi’s former colleagues, attorneys Philip R. Sheldon and Robert P. Finn, filed in late 2020.
Jayne’s attorney Evan C. Borges exclusively told us Tuesday that LA Judge Richard Fruin found no evidence that the reality star participated in “any wrongdoing.”
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