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Erika Jayne admitted in newly submitted court docket paperwork that her legal professional and good friend, Jim Wilkes, opened and has been funding an out-of-state checking account on her behalf.

As her estranged husband, Thomas Girardi, 86, started serving his seven-year, three-month jail time period for expenses of fraud towards the shoppers of his now-shuttered regulation agency, Girardi Keese, the 54-year-old Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star confirmed that Jim, who has been working for her amid the various lawsuits towards her, has been depositing cash right into a Florida checking account.

¨To the most effective of my recollection, I had one checking account opened for me by my good friend and private legal professional Jim Wilkes within the State of Florida. It was opened on the nationwide financial institution chain Wells Fargo. The account quantity shall be supplied if the Courtroom so orders and applicable confidentiality stipulations are executed previous to its disclosure. To the most effective of my information, the supply of the funds was Jim Wilkes. The aim of the account was for my private use. I didn’t come to Florida to open that account, and I by no means accessed that account from inside Florida,¨ Erika admitted in court docket paperwork obtained and shared by Ronald Richards.

In response to Ronald, Erika’s admission was a part of a sequence of “damning admissions” and “a very long time coming.”

Ronald additionally said that the quantities and sources wanted to be disclosed, and alleged that the account was really “funded by Florida residents,” moderately than Jim himself.

In response to one other report shared on July 18 by Page Six, it was famous that the beginning of Thomas’ jail time period had been confirmed by a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and that Thomas turned himself in on Thursday afternoon. At present, Thomas is in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on the Metropolitan Detention Middle (MDC) in Los Angeles and has been registered as an inmate, in accordance with on-line data.

As RHOBH followers will recall, Thomas was convicted on June 3 after being discovered responsible of stealing thousands and thousands in settlement funds from his former shoppers in September 2024.

Along with his seven-plus-year jail sentence, Thomas was ordered to pay a $ 35,000 fantastic and $2.3 million in restitution to his victims.

Whereas Thomas’ attorneys tried to persuade a choose to accommodate Thomas in a long-term care facility, moderately than jail, claiming he had been identified with late-onset Alzheimer’s and dementia, a choose discovered him competent to face trial final 12 months.

The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 is at present in manufacturing.