Erika Jayne & Tom Girardi will give up their incredible collection of luxury belongings at an orderly auction.
They are currently facing legal issues over claims that Girardi (83), a disbarred lawyer, embezzled millions of settlement money from his client’s clients, and Jayne (52) conspired in his fraud to finance her high-end lifestyle.
Bloomberg Law reported that Girardi’s estate was allowed by a federal bankruptcy judge to request an auctioneer be hired to help him sell off his many valuables. The proceeds will go to his creditors.
Now a staggering array of items from their onetime marital home is going on sale, including a 200th anniversary edition Steinway piano from 1997 that TMZ reports could be worth between $40,000 to $60,000.
Offload: Erika Jayne and Tom Girardi are giving up a breathtaking collection of their luxurious belongings in a court-ordered auction
Incoming: Run by John Moran Auctioneers, the sale will take place on September 21 at noon and will involve several items from Jayne and Girardi’s Pasadena mansion
There will be paintings from mid-century icon David Hockney as well bronze sculptures by Glenna GOODACRY on the block.
John Moran Auctioneers will run the sale. The event will be held on September 21 at noon.
Girardi bought the land in 1980. He married Jayne 20 years later. The property was their marital home, until last year.
The house found a buyer this summer after a string of humiliating price cuts that sent its value plummeting from $13 million to less than $8 million, Realtor reported.
Gorgeous: The offerings include a 200th anniversary edition Steinway piano from 1997 that TMZ reports could be worth between $40,000 to $60,000
Stranger than fiction: One of the items for sale is a first edition English translation of Niccolo Machiavelli’s seminal 16th century book The Prince
Living it up: Girardi purchased the spread in 1980 and married Jayne two decades later, whereupon the property became their marital home until it hit the market last year
Girardi, himself was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and has since been placed under conservatorship.
The auction includes a first English translation, in English, of Niccolo Maciavelli’s most important writings about politics. This book is known as The Works.
Machiavelli is a political philosopher who was well-known for his cynicism and brutality.
However, the 1977 painting Etching Is The Subject by David Hockney is expected to fetch between $3,000 and $5,000.
Object d’art: Late American sculptress Glenna Goodacre’s 2000 work Crossing The Prairie may bring in a whopping $30,000 to $40,000
English translations, first appearing on the market in 1675 are expected to sell for anywhere from $1,500-$2,000
Other Italian products will also be available for purchase, such as carved giltwood mirrors from the 18th and early 19th centuries valued between $3,000 and $5,000.
A covered centerpiece with a figurine of an Italian stag topped it is expected to sell for $5,000-$7,000.
David Hockney’s 1977 painting Etching Is the Subject could fetch between $3,000 and $5,000.
Vintage: A number of other Italian items will be up for sale, including carved giltwood mirrors dating from the late 18th to early 19th century valued at $3,000 to $5,000
American sculptress Glenna Goodacre might make a fortune with Crossing The Prairie in 2000.
Jayne, who was on vacation in Hawaii when he arrived at LAX with a $50,000,000 racketeering case against him, will be auctioned off September.
Girardi and she are accused of misappropriating client settlement money in order to present a false image of wealth, and support a lifestyle that is suited for reality television.
It’s the finest: The centerpiece covered with an ornamental figurine of a stag and topped off by a cover is likely to go for between $5,000 and $7,000.
Jayne is depicted in court documents as Girardi’s ‘frontwoman’ Girardi Keese. She is portrayed as selling the idea of Girardi Keese as a successful outfit.
Girardi has been expelled and now resides in a nursing home. She is charged with embezzling millions from victims’ families in settlement funds. The 2018 Lion Air accident, in which all 189 were killed, left Girardi disbarred.
Jayne has steadfastly denied any knowledge about Girardi’s financial improprieties. She stated on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, “This isn’t who I am and this isn’t who he’s.”
There goes the Steinway: Last month, a federal bankruptcy judge allowed Girardi’s estate to enlist an auctioneer to sell off a spate of his valuables with the revenue going to his creditors
It is also not true that Girardi was aware of the widespread rumours she had dismissed about her November 2020 divorce filing.
Jayne was asked to give up a pair of $750,000 diamond earrings Girardi bought with her misappropriated client funds by bankruptcy trustee at the beginning of 2011.
DailyMail.com found court documents that Jayne had signed to allow the earrings to be escrowed to another party while they investigated the claim.
Ouch: In court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Jayne agreed to ‘provide the earrings to a third party escrow to be held in trust’ while the claim was investigated. Seen in 2019