Thomas Girardi

Tom Girardi
Born
Thomas Vincent Girardi

(1939-06-03) June 3, 1939 (age 85)
Denver, Colorado
EducationLoyola Marymount University (BA, JD)
New York University School of Law (LLM)
OccupationFormer lawyer
Spouses
Karen Weitzul
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(m. 1964; div. 1983)​
Kathy Risner
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(m. 1993; div. 1998)​
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(m. 2000; div. 2020)​

Thomas Vincent Girardi (born June 3, 1939) is a former attorney and co-founder of the now-defunct Girardi & Keese,[1] a downtown Los Angeles law firm. He was disbarred in 2022 after accusations of defrauding clients.[2] He is separated from his third wife, the performer Erika Jayne, with whom he occasionally appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in their Pasadena mansion. In August 2024 he was found guilty of stealing tens of millions of dollars from his clients, and will be sentenced in December 2024. He faces another trial in 2025 in Chicago on similar charges of fraud.

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  2. ^ "Tom Girardi, disgraced L.A. lawyer and 'Real Housewives' spouse, indicted on fraud charges". Los Angeles Times. 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2023-02-02.