American singer, television personality, and screen and stage actress, also known by her married name Erika Girardi.
Jayne’s first single “Roller Coaster” was released on 1 January 2007. The song placed at number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Jayne’s debut album Pretty Mess was released in the United States on 11 August 2009.
In 2015, she joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for the show’s sixth season. On 25 September 2019, Jayne announced that she would be playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on Broadway.
She married Thomas Zizzo, a DJ at a club in Manhattan, New York in December 1991. Soon thereafter she gave birth to a son, Thomas Zizzo Jr. The couple divorced a few years later.
She made a second marriage to Thomas Girardi in January 2000. He was a founding partner of Girardi & Keese in Downtown Los Angeles. In November 2020, she announced her separation from Girardi.
One month after the divorce announcement, the couple were named in a lawsuit for allegedly embezzling funds meant for families of the victims of the fatal 2018 Lion Air plane crash. Media outlets reported that the divorce could be a “sham” to hide assets. In December 2020, Chicago-based law firm asked a federal judge to order Jayne to stop selling designer clothing online amid an effort to recover $2 million in missing money owed to people.
On 17 December 2020, the Los Angeles Times published a detailed article about the couple’s legal issues titled “The Legal Titan and the ‘Real Housewife’: The rise and fall of Tom Girardi and Erika Jayne.” Two days later, Jayne released an Instagram post revealing text messages and photos of Tom Girardi’s alleged mistress. A documentary about the couple’s highly publicized legal troubles titled The Housewife and the Hustler was released on Hulu on 14 June 2021.
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