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Settlement and Embezzlement - Tom and Erika Girardi

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode (Part 1 of our Settlement and Embezzlement series) we will explain what contingency fees are and how they are supposed to work. We will also outline the claims against Tom Girardi - with many digressions about Erika Jayne.

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0:00.0

In reality television, the people are represented by two separate but equally obsessed attorneys.

0:06.4

This is their podcast.

0:18.8

Hi, I'm Sessie, and I'm Angela, and this is the Bravo Docket.

0:22.6

So today on the Bravo Docket, we're going to get into part one of the Tom and Erica Gerardi case,

0:29.6

and yes, this is part one. This is going to be a multi-part series. There's just a lot of stuff to cover.

0:35.4

It's complicated. There's a lot of moving parts. There's a lot of different lawsuits going on.

0:39.4

There's the divorce. There is the lawsuits against Tom. There is all the previous lawsuits that Tom

0:44.3

was eventually were apparently sued for doing these types of sketchy things with client's

0:50.1

settlement money. So Sessie, do you want to give a little background on Tom and Erica?

0:55.4

Yes, so according to people, they met in the 90s when she was a cocktail waitress at a restaurant

1:01.2

called Chasens in Los Angeles, California. At the time she was 27, she was newly divorced,

1:08.0

a single mother to her son, Thomas. After visiting the restaurant many times, they developed a

1:14.4

friendship and Tom decided to ask Erica out on a date. The couple connected about their past as

1:19.4

they both grew up with very little and had to work hard for a buck. Just a few months later,

1:24.1

Erica and her son moved in with Tom. Six months after that, he proposed and the couple married in 1999

1:30.8

at the same restaurant where they met, which is actually very cute.

1:34.6

So what's their age difference exactly? I didn't do math. So she met him when she was 27. How old was

1:39.9

he when they met? I don't know. How old is he now? I'm just going to Google age difference between

1:45.9

Tom and Erica. 33 years. They're 33 years. 33 years. I mean, I once dated a guy that was 10 years

1:55.5

older than me and that was actually a pretty big age difference. I mean, I was in law school at the

1:59.9

time. It was still a big age of 33 years. That's like 33 years is older than me. Oh my god,

2:10.1

can you feel super old? Not to make you feel super old, but that's more than my lifetime.

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