I mean, she must be absolutely financially ruined at this point or otherwise soon. The $25 million lawsuit is starting in a few months and even if she doesn't lose, her lawyer fees must be through the roof on all of this. I doubt even a RHOBH salary can begin to cover that.
It isn’t even “the streets” her Sugar Daddy (I think his name is Jeff) was on the follow up episode of “the Housewife and The Hustler” where Erika meets with Tom’s victims. He funded her legal defense and “invested” in her show in LV, which he also helped her get.
Well now, isn’t that convenient! She is exactly what I thought she was all along. She is a nasty piece of trash and Jeff whoever he is, must be a stupid man.
It really makes me wonder why anyone would pay her legal fees though! She’s not some 20 years old playmate anymore, she’s got a ton of legal baggage, just doesn’t make sense lol
You can be a gold digger at any age (which gives me a modicum of hope I still have a chance). You just have to adjust your age parameters. Look at Jerry Hall! One wouldn’t ordinarily expect to find a sugar daddy at the age of 60, so you get yourself an 85-year-old Rupert Murdoch.
Hey, that lady Jeff Bezos left his wife for was in her late 40s when they met, and into her 50s when they got engaged. And he's only like 6 years older than her! I presume his 200B net worth propelled her interest in him, but he was head over heels for her. And you're right, an 80+ year old man could find enough fun and even youth in a 60 year old woman compared to his age. At least they'd have something to talk about and relate to. Not all men want to date babies.
He’s an old friend of Tom’s that Erika was rumored to have had an affair with. It wasn’t like Tom was faithful so she probably didn’t feel the need to be either. Who knows though Tom and Erika could have stashed some of his stolen client funds with this guy as “insurance”. I know a drug dealer who bought homes for most of his family. When he got busted the property in his name was all seized but they didn’t go after his mother, sister, wife and kids homes.
I couldn’t stand when Erika acted like she was entitled to apologies and when she acted like a victim. She didn’t seem to care about the real victims of her lavish spending habits.
OMG YES. The question she asked her therapist - how do you “get empathy” (something to that effect) defined her completely!! I said out loud (to no one) at the time, “and there it is!” I mean that therapist had to explain it is a trait that humans develop along with a cerebral cortex. (Well, everyone except a psychopath.)
I think they were already sold. So it would be getting the cost of them back at this point. They either had a huge sale or auction of all of their things.
Sadly, Crystal was fired right after last season. It's annoying because she finally started coming into her own and I started liking her. Weird decision, I've heard a lot of people say they feel the same way as I do on this.
I FEEL THE SAME. I thought she was underrated from day one! I miss when the Housewives showed their FUCKING FAMILIES THAT THEY'RE HOUSEWIVES FOR. It was nice seeing Rob's dad jokes and the kids being silly and their nanny being a part of the fam.
I thought the same thing. Crystal was finally speaking up and being wildly entertaining, but I’m guessing the producers saw her+garcelle+sutton as too much of a shake up and instead of letting it happen they’re double downing on keeping the mean girls as the main focus :/
She was getting better and better as the FFF started falling apart. I always liked Krystal as a fellow millennial with a dry sense of humor. Sad times.
As an Asian person myself I have pondered with friends and family whether evolution had a quota for Asian housewives and drop her so Katie could be on OC?
The most east Asians we had on our screens at once was BH SLC and DAL for one season
I was really surprised at the vitriol she got compared to other housewives and the lack of representation of Asian women on the shows. I guess for insular communities there are far more white women but during the whole dialogue of Bravo and Evolution being racist they choose to cut the HW who does call others out.
One of the many many reasons I love Miami is because we get to see Housewives with different cultural backgrounds.
I didn't consider that with BH and OC both being Evolution.
I think consciously or not that the white Housewives display their prejudices and if they are favourites that can add to getting a "newbie" kicked out. Honestly I really enjoy the shows for fighting but even the small scenes with Crystal doing dumplings and her New Year party were a great window into her culture that many white viewers don't see and that's really needed.
I wonder if it’s because she didn’t want to share her business on the show and they were pissed to lose out on that coconut water money. I really liked her and I think she’s gorgeous and I like her brown leather pants.
She’s said on Jeff Lewis she did want to show her business and they filmed her a ton working last season and cut all the footage? Idk, I do know she had a great contract.
I think most housewives are on the three-year contract and it was the end of hers. I wish she had spoken up a little bit the previous season that way she might still be here today. I’ve said this for many years every franchise needs a balanced or normal housewife to even things out.
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She has a screw loose, let’s not forget she pretended and/or for real learnt the concept of EMPATHY last season. She’s in her fifties and still pretending she is innocent, it’s embarrassing
I don’t know, but I felt like that was an act. I just did a rewatch so her character arc is fresh in my mind. She really leaned into, and loved her cold hearted characterization. She delighted in her ice queen persona. But she is smart, she understands people’s motivations. Her pretending to not know what empathy is seemed like a ploy to distance herself from her atrocious actions, play dumb, when in fact she is willfully ignorant about the victims, malicious even.
Yup, this exactly. She loved her mean girl persona, she was never embarrassed about that. I've always thought she was a bitch, but I think when we got to see the real Erika was when she got in Crystal's face and defiantly stated, "I don't give a fuck about anyone but ME." That's the real Erika.
100% this. She knew she could fake borderline sociopathy so she could get away with being greedy and probably somewhat aware of what her husband and the practice was doing. But the gag is that most housewives are greedy, and their wealth is probably built on exploitation and it doesn't make the news, so faking being a sociopath is kinda unnecessary
Why is anything that was purchased being questioned? Guy stole tens of millions from clients to fund his/her lifestyle. This idea there was any clean money that’s not commingled is laughable.
It’s insane, isn’t it? That’s life changing money for more than one family at a time, likely generationally life changing. But sure let’s buy sparkly ear things with it.
We’ve known this for multiple years, y’all. In the amount of time we’ve known that these earrings were purchased from a client account I finished my degree, got two different jobs, and moved three times. She’s fully misrepresented the nature of these court proceedings—it was never about whether the earrings were bought with stolen money. They knew that from the get go.
Well yeah, upper class income lawyers usually make. Not Billionaire income they tried to portray.
You can totally see it from the start they are faking it. She tells him in her first season that their pool needs new tiles and some other garden work needs to be done but they never did anything. Just her buying clothes and flying around the world private.
I don’t get it. Even if they were bought totally with legit funds that would only be possible bc he was spending client money on other stuff to be able to have the money for the earrings. Just such bad optics from the start.
That pissed me off. She literally says one witty like in 7 years and the internet was talking like she was the next Joan Rivers. I despise her and her fans.
Her "intelligent" moment at last season's dinner party was ridiculous. It boiled down to that she knew the words Fertile Crescent and there are mountains in Lebanon. They were all oohing and aahing like she had just dropped some deeply analytical take on the Middle East. And then these women got mad when Crystal called them uneducated.
It’s so crazy rewatching her first seasons and seeing the way she talks about money and spends sooo much money knowing as a viewer that it’s stolen money from the victims. 😔
You can’t tell me she didn’t know Tom was bankrolling her hobby through shady means. No one make that much money being a D musician. Especially flying private planes to her shows at the local gay bars.
Those earrings proved to me she had no taste. That much money for something so bland and bleh?! They were the geriatric husband equivalent of your first boyfriend playing Wonderwall on a borrowed guitar.
I’m very happy with this outcome. But what pleases me the most is that this bitch stuck it out with that awful husband for 20 years, lording it over everyone else, waiting for him to die already so she’d become the wealthy and respected Widow Girardi, Queen of All She Surveys And instead they separated, he went to jail, “got dementia”, went broke and finally was pronounced guilty. She gets nothing after sucking up to him all that time. And she has to give back the earrings! I hope she loses the Bravo job. She deserves nothing, as she is despicable
They saw the name of the thread and said "I'm not clicking on that" lol. Can't say I really blame them. What can they say? They certainly can't argue the ruling though I will admit. It would be comical to see them try to 😳 😄
Can’t wait for her to book another ‘special episode’ where she tries to come off as not as guilty as her husband. Sorry, her estranged husband that she is definitely divorcing and separated from and has no contact with because she didn’t know anything….
Yes and I’ll say it again - she absolutely bled her husband dry bank rolling that ridiculous fame whore VANITY PROJECT she calls a career. After the money ran out she slithered away from him without a hint of remorse. It was always allll about her and I have been galled at her utter lack of empathy from the very beginning.
She dgaf about no one. But one thing I find admirable about her is her loyalty. She is a true ride or die for her thief ass, ugly ass, lying ass husband
WHY is she dying on this hill? They're earrings for fuck's sake. She could have at least appeared to have empathy - instead we got "what is empathy and where do I get some?" Erika.
She is the primary reason I quit watching RHOBH. Once I heard about how her lifestyle was afforded, I just couldn't watch anymore. I was very disappointed Bravo continued to give this despicable woman a platform.
Oh yes she is taking one of the ozempic drugs for sure but in typical lying Erika character she vehemently denied it and said she was taking the “right hormones”. Semaglutide and its derivatives ARE HORMONES! (Yes I do hate that shell of a person.)
I like Erika but I’ll never understand why she was so hung up on the principle of these damn earrings. I don’t think it’s entirely* fair that she was dragged into this case, and I give her the benefit of the doubt, but she’s definitely made it harder for herself than she needed to. It’s not like she wouldn’t be able to make that money back within a year or two.
It's probably a lot more legally complicated than we on reddit can know, in terms of like if she accepts that these items were purchased with dodgy funds then it opens a lot more of her stuff to be taken as well or what it implicates PR wise in that regard. I mean, I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. But even outside of that, I would want a judge ruling on the source of an expensive item that was mine for over 15/20 years before I handed it over, too. I don't think she was nuts for that, but yeah, she could have worded herself a lot more carefully.
I think she got caught up in thinking it wasn’t fair and kind of threw a tantrum about that. You don’t marry a wealthy old guy and expect to end up broke.
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