Erika Girardi “is doing the perfect she will be able to” after a court docket ordered her to show over a significant piece of jewellery from her estranged husband Tom Girardi.
A decide dominated final week that The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 50, needed to flip in a $750,000 pair of diamond earrings bought for her in 2007 by Tom, 83, as a result of they’re legally thought-about “stolen property” in mild of allegations that Tom embezzled cash from his purchasers to fund his “lavish way of life .”
“It wasn’t simple for [Erika] to half methods with one thing that was sentimental to her,” a supply near RHOBH manufacturing tells PEOPLE, “however she is aware of she wanted to do it and he or she complied.”
Erika — who filed for divorce from Tom in November 2020 — has repeatedly denied having any half in Tom’s alleged crimes, and an embezzlement swimsuit in opposition to her in Illinois was dismissed with out prejudice in January (although the plaintiff’s lawyer Jay Edelson confirmed his agency Edelson PC will refile the swimsuit in California, the place the Girardis lived throughout their 21-year marriage).
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The supply tells PEOPLE Erika relinquished the earrings “months in the past,” and provides, “now that the ruling has occurred, she’s considerably relieved a choice has been made and she will be able to formally give attention to shifting on.”
The insider continued, “She truthfully simply desires all of this behind her and can do no matter is critical to take action. She is doing the perfect she will be able to to maneuver ahead together with her life.”
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As she makes an attempt to maneuver on, Erika nonetheless has to face extra litigation, together with a $50 million racketeering swimsuit and a $2.1 million “aiding and abetting” swimsuit.
Tom, henceforth, has been in declining well being since being identified with dementia and late-onset Alzheimer’s illness. He was positioned beneath a brief conservatorship in February 2021 that was made everlasting that July. He’s at the moment dwelling in a “expert nursing facility” the place he’s receiving 24-hour care.
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Nonetheless, Erika advised Ice Every day Pop final month that she’s embracing “the prospect to utterly begin over and be free from over a 20-year marriage and form of wipe the slate clear in a method.”
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesdays at 8 pm ET on Bravo.