Erika Jayne Slammed in New $2 Million Lawsuit Alleging She ‘Aided and Abetted’ Estranged Husband Tom Girardi’s ‘Scheme’

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The drama continues. Erika Jayne is being sued in yet another lawsuit amid her ongoing legal woes with estranged husband Tom Girardi.Documents filed on Thursday, February 17, and obtained by Us Weekly, claim that Erika, 50, “knew about the scheme” allegedly conducted by Girardi, 82, to withhold money from clients.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is being sued for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and for financial elder abuse.Attorney Manuel H.

Miller and Kathleen Bajgrowicz claim in their complaint that the Broadway performer “aided and abetted Girardi’s breach of fiduciary duty and has direct liability for participating in and facilitating the conduct.” The “victims” of the former lawyer’s supposed wrongdoings “were funding [Erika’s] notoriously lavish lifestyle chronicled on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” the docs allege.Miller and Bajgrowicz, the mother of the late NFL star Chuck Osborne, are suing for $277,630.40 and $1,889,150.50, respectively.Osborne died in 2012 after repeated head trauma, and Bajgrowicz was jointly represented by Girardi and Miller when she sued the NFL over her son’s death.

The attorneys agreed to share their fees. When a settlement was reached with the league, Girardi was allegedly tasked with distributing the money to Bajgrowicz and Miller.“Unknown to Plaintiffs, Girardi had already taken their money and breached his and the firm’s fiduciary duty to distribute the funds to Plaintiffs,” the pair claim in their lawsuit, accusing the Colorado native of “lull[ing] Plaintiffs into believing that the funds could not be distributed to anyone until various issues were first resolved.”Bajgrowicz and Miller allege that Erika was “intimately involved” with her then-husband’s