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27 Aug 2024


NextImg:Erika Jayne’s estranged husband, Tom Girardi, found guilty of embezzling more than $15 million from law firm clients
Tom Girardi was found guilty of embezzlement. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Tom Girardi has been found guilty of embezzling more than $15 million from his now-defunct law firm Girardi & Keese’s clients.

After less than a full day of deliberations, a federal jury presented its verdict at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse Tuesday.

The former attorney, 85 — who was disbarred in March 2021 — was charged with wire fraud in February 2023.

Girardi, the estranged husband of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne, was found guilty on all four counts.

During the weeks-long trial, prosecutors told the jury that the once-revered lawyer ran a Ponzi scheme by misappropriating millions of dollars of his clients’ settlements.

They said he would use the money to pay back other clients and fund a luxurious life for himself and Jayne, 53.

His federal public defenders, however, insisted the firm’s chief financial officer and Girardi’s co-defendant, Chris Kamon, was to blame for the missing and misappropriated money.

Despite being diagnosed with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and dementia three years ago, Girardi still took the stand for his cross-examination last week and emphatically denied any wrongdoing.

“The last thing I would do would be to take someone’s money,” he testified. “I wouldn’t think of it.”

Girardi — who insisted that he “didn’t intentionally ever tell anyone the wrong thing” — also repeated several times during his testimony that he never gave himself a salary.

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