A criminal conviction is the latest installment of the Los Angeles lawyer’s downfall, accented throughout by its adjacency to ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.’
At his peak, Girardi, now 85, was the rare attorney with a pop-culture imprint. His exploits in the field of personal injury law garnered him recognition in the credits of Erin Brockovich—a connection, as mentioned during the trial, that he was happy to play up—and later, as the husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Erika Jayne, a broad platform for his wealthy and connected reputation.
His lawyers had argued that his firm’s former chief financial officer—also his codefendant, who is awaiting a separate trial—was responsible for the settlement theft and deceived his aging boss about it. From the beginning of the trial, though, the government took pains to put the blame squarely at Girardi’s feet. As one prosecutor put it in opening statements, Girardi used his clients’ trust accounts like a “personal piggy bank,” partly in service of his wife’s entertainment career.
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