'Real Housewife' Erika Girardi Sued by Christina Fulton, Nicolas Cage's Former Girlfriend, For $745,000

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star, Erika Girardi, known on the show as Erika Jayne, is facing a lawsuit from Nicolas Cage's former girlfriend, actress Christina Fulton.In the court docs obtained by ET, Fulton, who is suing for negligence, breach of settlement and fraud, among other things, claims she was represented by Erika's ex-husband, Tom Girardi's law firm, Girardi Keese, after sustaining severe injuries during an automobile accident in 2016.

Following the accident, Girardi Keese was able to negotiate Fulton a confidential settlement agreement of $924,300, which was awarded to her on in 2019, but now, Fulton is claiming she did not receive a payout.In the suit, filed in a Los Angeles-area superior courthouse Tuesday, Fulton claims she did not know where the money from the settlement was until July 14, when she «discovered that all of her remaining Settlement Funds were dissipated, and that her Girardi Keese attorneys had lied to her.»«On March 29, 2019, the Settlement Amount was issued to 'Girardi Keese and Christina Fulton.' On April 8, 2019, the check was deposited into Girardi Keese’s Nano Bank account ending in 0567.

The check was '[t]o be deposited in trust for Christina Fulton.' This was a complete outright forgery as Plaintiff never endorsed this check and certainly never agreed to have it deposited,» the suit goes on to claim.

Fulton's legal team says that the Girardi Keese firm endorsed the check to be deposited for the actress, calling the negotiated check «a forgery and a lie,» claiming that the check not only wasn't held in trust, it was spent, and not by Fulton.«It is beyond shocking and the pale that the Firm would conceal the arrival of the check and not obtain Ms.