Erika and Tom Girardi.Photo: Steve Eichner/AP
Tom Girardi’s brother, Robert Girardi, has been granted as a temporary conservator over the 81-year-old lawyer’s “person and estate” after he was said to be having a difficult time caring for himself.
Tom — the estranged husband ofReal Housewives of Beverly HillsstarErika Girardi— was not present at the hearing “because of medical inability,” but the hearing minutes noted that he “consents and does not object to the Temporary Conservatorship.”
Tom’s law firm did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Tom and Erika Girardi.Bravo
“His short-term memory is severely compromised and, on information and belief, he is often not oriented as to date, time or place,” it said, adding that Tom’s housekeeper of 25 years is quitting because he can no longer pay her.
“While Tom does have family members, such as Petitioner [Robert], and certain friends looking out for him to make sure he has sufficient food and that he makes it to a given appointment on time,” the petition said, “left to his own devices, it is highly doubtful that Tom could manage most of the activities of daily living for any significant period of time without assistance.”
Erika, 49,filed for divorcefrom Tom in November, saying in a statement at the time that it was not “a step taken lightly or easily.”
Also in December, Tom was hit withanother lawsuit, this time from his partner Robert Keese and fellow business partners Robert Finnerty and Jill O’Callahan to dissolve their venture together. The men claim that Tom never paid them approximately $315,000 in income, instead keeping the money for himself, and that he took out loans against their property without their knowledge for his “own personal gain, benefit and use.” (Tom has not publicly commented.)
Amid the legal troubles, Tom’s lawyers have said in court that he “has had issues of his mental competence” and asked a judge to order a “mental health exam,” theLos Angeles Timesreported.
source: people.com
