Thomas Girardi
Tom Girardi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas Vincent Girardi June 3, 1939 Denver, Colorado, US |
| Education | Loyola Marymount University (BA, JD) New York University School of Law (LLM) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Spouses | Karen Weitzul
(m. 1964; div. 1983)Kathy Risner
(m. 1993; div. 1998) |
Thomas Vincent Girardi (born June 3, 1939) is an American former attorney and co-founder of Girardi & Keese, a now-defunct downtown Los Angeles law firm.
He was disbarred in 2022 after accusations of defrauding clients. In August 2024, he was found guilty of stealing tens of millions of dollars from his clients, and was sentenced in May 2025 to an 87-month prison term. He faces another trial in 2025 in Chicago on similar charges of fraud.
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.