The personal injury lawyer was made famous by Erin Brockovich and infamous by a divorce that played out on Bravo. As his federal fraud trial gets underway in Los Angeles, the attorney who blew the whistle on him describes how he came to see the saga as “significantly worse than what Bernie Madoff did.
But in August 2021, the Erin Brockovich poster from Girardi’s Wilshire Boulevard office, signed by Julia Roberts, was up for sale. By the time of his firm’s bankruptcy auction, his personal and professional collapse was all but complete. Girardi & Keese had more than $100 million of debt, according to court filings.
“This is a guy who made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in his career,” Edelson told me last week. “So the idea that he would steal a few million dollars from widows and orphans, it just didn’t add up.” When he met Girardi for the first time—the type of lawyer that he himself wanted to be—he recalled the attorney handing out signed photos of Jayne and detailing his annual Morton’s Steakhouse expenditures.
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