The Pop Star and the Power Broker | Part 1

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, Primembers, you can listen to Scamplenzer's ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.5	Satchie, what would you name your pop star alter ego?
0:18.1	Pig bitch.
0:20.6	Honestly, I knew it was gonna be something gross. I was expecting like
0:25.8	but lover, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know why you asked me. It's because in the
0:32.5	story I'm about to tell you, a housewife transforms into a pop star named
0:37.1	Erica Jane. And Satchie, I know you might think you know the story, but she is
0:42.2	really just the smallest piece of it.
0:48.6	It's a sunny Southern California day, sometime around 2015 or early 2016.
0:54.8	Lisa Vanderpump and her husband are being chauffored in their black SUV of the driveway of an
1:00.0	enormous Pasadena mansion. As Lisa climbs the stone steps, a camera crew follows behind.
1:06.5	Lisa is a brunette who wears a chic black cocktail dress with oversized diamond encrusted bracelets.
1:13.2	She's a wealthy restaurant her and the matriarch of the real housewives of Beverly Hills.
1:18.3	She's here to meet the show's newest castmate Erica and her husband Tom Gerardi.
1:24.4	Erica opens the front door wearing a black mini dress that's conservative yet sexy.
1:29.8	She's a pop star and she has platinum and I mean platinum blonde hair.
1:36.2	Erica pours them all wine and takes Lisa on her husband on a tour of her home.
1:40.8	It's ostentatious even by real housewives standards. It's a 10,000 square foot mansion built in
1:47.1	1928. The interior has lots of chandeliers and brownie gold textiles and it sits on two
1:54.3	acres of land with a garden designed by the same firm that planned central park.
1:59.4	Their first stop, the library, has fireplaces at either end of the room.
2:04.4	Sexy portraits of Erica hang over each one. The tour continues with Erica showing off a small
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