Why is Christina Fulton SUING Erika Jayne? Nicolas Cage’s ex files $700K lawsuit against TV star
Christina Fulton, Nicolas Cage's ex, is suing Erika Jayne and two lawyers who worked at the bankrupt legal company of infamous attorney Tom Girardi for alleged fraud and embezzlement. This fine mess is only getting worse.
On Friday, July 15, the actress filed a $700,000-plus lawsuit against the 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' celeb, who filed for divorce from Girardi in 2020 after almost two decades of marriage, according to bombshell legal records acquired by Page Six. Girardi's former coworkers John Kelley Courtney and Samantha Gold have also been accused of stealing Fulton's settlement payments from a 2016 automobile accident in which the mother-of-one suffered "severe injuries." Following the accident, Fulton retained the services of Girardi & Keese, who obtained a private settlement of $924,300 for her. Gold was Fulton's lead counsel, while Courtney was a senior attorney on the case, according to the publication.
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Nonetheless, Girardi, who was diagnosed with dementia and late-onset Alzheimer's disease in March 2021 as a result of his legal problems, was the firm's owner and controlling member at the time. According to Fulton's lawsuit, she discovered last month through newly uncovered financial papers that her settlement money had allegedly been placed into a Girardi & Keese bank account without her knowledge. According to the claim, this was a total fake because Fulton never endorsed the check and definitely never agreed to have it deposited.
According to the lawsuit, the negotiated check was a fabrication and a deception. The check was never kept in trust and was never cashed. It is alarming and over the pale that the business would hide the check's arrival and fail to seek Ms Fulton's endorsement as legally required. At this moment, the actress has only gotten $190,000 of her compensation and a $5,000 advance. She is requesting the remainder of her $744,300 balance.
Jayne is included in the case because Fulton claims she discovered her cash was 'diverted' to the singer through her firm, EJ Global, and then transferred to Pretty Mess Inc. Fulton speculates in the complaint that her cash was used to finance Jayne and her former husband's "lavish lifestyle." The money was considered communal property, according to the lawsuit, before mentioning the $25 million transferred into EJ Global, which is still suspended by the State of California. Other records said that Erika utilized the money to pay off her debts and that Girardi & Keese paid all of her costs as she incurred them for at least 12 years. Erika Jayne was the only one who took money from the company.
Ronald Richards, one of Fulton's lawyers, told Page Six that his client, like many others in Hollywood, trusted Erika and Tom. He added that the ex-couple was perceived as a public pair that advocated riches and success. Erika benefitted from the funds used to generate content for the Housewives show for which she was compensated, according to Richards, who made a low-ball bid to acquire Girardis' old Pasadena mansion. He accused her of receiving vendor payments straight from these funds and personally benefiting from the misuse of his client's settlement. Meanwhile, Jayne's lawyer emphasizes that she is not a lawyer and had "no role" in her ex's clients' or company's finances.
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He emphasized that the focus should be on Tom Girardi and, when evidence supports it, the attorneys, accountants, and financiers who permitted his misbehavior and criminality. Jayne has also been mentioned in a $50 million racketeering action and a $5 million fraud lawsuit, in addition to this one. Jayne and her divorced spouse were initially mentioned in Edelson PC's December 2020 class action complaint, charging them with fraud and embezzlement in relation to $2 million in settlement funds allocated for victims of the 2018 Lion Air Flight 610 tragedy, in which all 189 persons onboard died. She was dropped from the continuing case launched against Girardi in Illinois in January.
Jayne has always maintained her innocence and has openly complained about being "dragged through the mud" on her Bravo reality show. Girardi has been residing in a nursing facility after being diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and his brother Robert placed him under conservatorship in July 2021.