The Pop Star and the Power Broker | Part 1 | 65

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tom Girardi dreams of being a do-gooder lawyer like his childhood hero on the TV show “Perry Mason.” When he starts his own legal firm in the 1960s, he does just that, representing clients against the huge corporations that wronged them. One of his biggest cases even gets the Hollywood treatment in the movie “Erin Brockovich.” But behind the scenes, Tom isn’t the hero he makes himself out to be. And when his extravagant home life with wife Erika Jayne gets broadcast on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” his fraudulent schemes will finally come under the microscope.

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0:00.0	Hey, scam influencers fans, Sachi here.
0:02.2	If you live for the outrageous stories and unbelievable cons that we cover, you need Wendry Plus.
0:07.2	It's like sitting in the room with us as we unravel every twist.
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0:30.0	Sachi, what would you name your pop star alter ego?
0:33.3	Pig bitch.
0:37.6	Honestly, I knew it was going to be something gross.
0:40.9	I was expecting, like, butt lover.
0:42.0	I don't know.
0:44.0	Yeah, I don't know why you asked me.
0:47.4	It's because in the story I'm about to tell you,
0:51.3	a housewife transforms into a pop star named Erica Jane.
0:54.6	And Sachi, I know you might think you know the story,
0:58.3	but she is really just the smallest piece of it.
1:04.3	It's a sunny Southern California day,
1:07.5	sometime around 2015 or early 2016.
1:13.0	Lisa Vanderpump and her husband are being chauffered in their black SUV up the driveway of an enormous Pasadena mansion. As Lisa climbs the stone steps, a camera crew follows behind.
1:20.3	Lisa is a brunette who wears a chic black cocktail dress with oversized diamond-encrusted
1:25.5	bracelets. She's a wealthy restaurateur and the matriarch of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
1:31.7	She's here to meet the show's newest castmate, Erica, and her husband, Tom Girardi.
1:37.5	Erica opens the front door wearing a black mini dress that's conservative yet sexy.
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