Erika Jayne’s diamond earrings saga has taken fairly an odd flip.
Bear in mind how we posted all about Erika’s diamond earrings being auctioned off to the very best bidder? Nicely seems the very best bidder was Legal professional Ronald Richards. Sure, the exact same legal professional who was a trustee in Tom Girardi’s chapter case and tried to purchase Erika and Tom’s former Pasadena mansion. He’s additionally the identical man who continuously posts about Erika on Twitter, a lot in order that the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star has dubbed him an obsessed stalker.
The legal professional bought the much-discussed earrings for $250k on December 7, 2022.
Shortly after the public sale, Richards’ spouse, Lauren Boyette-Richards, boasted about being the brand new proprietor of Erika’s notorious diamond earrings on Instagram.
“I now see why you fought for these, @theprettymess. They’re gorgeous! Ought to I’ve Girardi eliminated? ? #girardifraud #fraud #diamondearrings @bravo_boo @sobaditsgoodwithryanbailey,” Boyette-Richards wrote on Instagram alongside a photograph of her sporting the diamond earrings.
Seems followers had been shocked and dumbfounded by Boyette-Richards’ publish and the truth that she and her husband bought the diamond earrings.
“Unusual your obsession with Erika Jayne…” one fan commented.
A second fan mentioned, “That is very odd conduct.”
“This is among the creepiest, weirdest issues I’ve ever seen,” a 3rd fan shared.
“That’s soo petty and embarrassing, and I’m not even a fan of Erica,” a fourth fan quipped.
Others dubbed the publish “classless,” “determined,” and “cringy.”
Boyette-Richards defended buying the diamond earrings.
“These earrings she owned had been confirmed to be purchased with funds presupposed to go to 1 household, nevertheless it by no means did. She proceeded to pull out the case so she might hold the earrings. [The] decide dominated them to be offered. We had been the very best bidder. Meaning NO one else bid greater than us. Ought to they’ve gone for a less expensive worth, and the household will get much less? Am I not allowed to purchase them with our earned cash? I don’t get it! So Erika ought to have saved them as a result of she’s a supposed “superstar”? Or as a result of she supposedly didn’t know, regardless that it was confirmed? If anybody is classless, it’s the individual submitting appeals and extra lawsuits to attempt to hold them given all of the info. Ought to have simply turned them over like his mistress,” Boyette-Richards wrote.
See what else Boyette-Richards needed to say under!
Tom initially purchased the 6-carat diamond earrings for $750,000 again in 2007 as a present for Erika.
In June, a decide dominated that Tom bought the earrings with “settlement funds from the belief account created for a class-action dealt with by Thomas’ agency Girardi Keese.”
Erika was ordered to show over the earrings, which she did however not earlier than submitting an attraction. The fact TV star claims the earrings had been now price $1.4 million, which continues to be pending regardless of the current sale.
If Erika does win her attraction over the diamonds, she’s going to get the proceeds from the sale of the earrings.
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills is predicted to return for season 13 in 2023.
