Thomas Girardi
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Successful attorney who gained the limelight in 1999 when he married dancer and singer Erika Jayne, a star on The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills.
He graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1961 and went on finish Loyola Law School in 1964. He also completed his LLM at New York University in 1965.
In 1970, he became the first California attorney to win over one million dollars in a medical malpractice case. He would go on to represent countless companies like Pacific Gas & Electric Co and Lockheed Corp.
Originally from Colorado, he settled with Erika Jayne in Los Angeles, California.
His case against Pacific Gas & Electric became the inspiration for the acclaimed film Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts