The Housewife and the Hustler 2: The Reckoning

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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It was a marriage of luxury and excess for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne and powerhouse attorney Tom Girardi. But his empire came crashing down amidst allegations he was stealing from the very clients he swore to protect. Now, with a recent guilty verdict in the case, we look back at how this scandal exposed systemic failures in California, what Erika Jayne knew and the pursuit of justice for victims. Originally Aired: 02/12/2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there 2020 listeners, it's Deborah Roberts. He was once considered one of America's best lawyers,
0:08.0	but he had what a prosecutor called a remarkable fall from Grace.
0:13.2	Tom Gerordi, who portrayed himself as the champion of the little guy convicted on four counts
0:18.8	of wire fraud.
0:20.4	Today we're revisiting some earlier reporting on the Girardi story from our colleagues at ABC News Studios and LA Times Studios.
0:28.0	Here's part two of Housewife and the hustler.
0:33.0	Oh, there's one.
0:35.0	Oh, there she missed.
0:40.0	Hello.
0:44.0	Hi, hi, here, come.
0:46.0	I feel like we should.
0:48.0	I do.
0:50.0	Say it.
0:51.0	And I do.
0:52.0	And I'm a huge, I see jut you too. I know. Hi there.
0:53.0	I'm before you.
0:54.0	I see you.
0:56.0	Thanks for having me.
1:21.0	I. I am at sort of a loss for what to say because we have had such a been standing on the opposite sides of a lot of things. So I don't know if there's anything that you'd like to say or ask or.
1:30.0	Well, I don't know who you know of the victims, if you know our names.
1:37.0	Do you know anything about us?
1:41.0	Not really, to be perfectly honest. Did you see the documentary?
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