RHOBH Bethenny Frankel says Tom Girardi owed her late fiancé $500k
RHONY alum Bethenny Frankel has revealed that she knew about the legal and money troubles Tom Girardi was in for years because Tom owed her deceased fiancé Dennis Shields $500,000. Dennis died in 2018 from an overdose.
On Wednesday, on Bethenny’s podcast Just B with Bethenny Frankel, Bethenny said she’d known for years that Erika’s lavish lifestyle was an illusion, thanks to her late fiancé, who was allegedly another of Tom’s debtors.
Bethenny recalls watching Erika Jayne famously claim she spent $45,000 a month on her “glam squad.” Bethenny, who is very wealthy in her own right (she sold her Skinnygirl liquor brand for a reported $100 million in 2011,) was shocked to hear that figure. The estimated $600k a year just on hair, makeup, and clothes seemed extreme to Bethenny.
“You know, I was like, that’s rolling really deep, and that’s just a number that would be hard to sustain,” she said. “And Dennis said to me, ‘He doesn’t have it like that. He owes me money. He owes me half a million dollars, I know this other guy he owes $1.5 million. He doesn’t have money. He owes everybody money.'”
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