Tom Girardi Secretly Hospitalized for ‘Serious Illness,’ Lawyers Concerned About His Mental Competency Amid Legal Drama
Tom Girardi’s legal woes are emerging amid his divorce from Erika Jayne. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, the lawyer was secretly hospitalized for a “serious illness” in recent months.Keith Griffin, an attorney at Girardi’s firm, claimed in court on Monday, December 14, that the estranged husband of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star was “unavailable in recent weeks due to a serious illness that caused him to be hospitalized for which he sought treatment” amid his fraud case.Girardi, 81, has been accused of embezzling “at least $2 million in client funds that were due to the families of those killed in the crash of a Boeing jet in Indonesia” in 2018.