Erika Jayne was subpoenaed twice to give depositions on her and Tom Girardi's assets before she filed for divorce, court documents show

• Erika Jayne was subpoenaed to give depositions on her and Tom Girardi's assets, court documents say.
• Jayne was subpoenaed on May 28, 2020 and September 28, 2020. She filed for divorce in November.
• Girardi, 82, is accused of embezzling millions from widows and orphans of plane-crash victims.

Erika Jayne was subpoenaed twice to give depositions on her and husband Tom Girardi's assets just months before she filed for divorce, a new documentary has revealed.

Court documents from a lawsuit that was highlighted in the ABC News special "The Housewife and the Hustler" revealed that Jayne was subpoenaed on May 28 of last year, and again on September 28.

The hearings were postponed for undisclosed reasons and Jayne, 49, never sat for questioning. She filed for divorce from Girardi, 82, less than two months after the second subpoena, citing "irreconcilable differences" after 21 years of marriage.

Jayne has maintained that she knew nothing about Girardi's legal troubles, which first came to light in December after the personal injury attorney was accused of embezzling millions from the widows and orphans of plane crash victims. But the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star has become increasingly entangled in all the drama.

Representatives for Jayne and Girardi have not responded to Insider's requests for comment.

According to the documentary, a separate court document claims that Tom Girardi gave Erika Jayne $20 million in loans from funds taken from his Los Angeles law firm

Court papers state that Girardi transferred the money from his firm Girardi Keese to Jayne's company EJ Global, according to the documentary - which is now available on Hulu. Insider has not been able to independently view the court filing.

The special also features a never-before-aired deposition video in which Girardi - who was known for winning multimillion-dollar settlements as a personal-injury attorney - acknowledges he's broke.

"At one point I had about $80 million, or $50 million in cash - that's all gone," he says in the clip. "I also had a stock portfolio of about $50 million, and that's all gone."

Girardi's legal troubles came to public attention after Jayne filed for divorce in November

After the split made headlines, the class-action law firm Edelson PC filed a complaint claiming that the couple's divorce was a "sham."

In October 2018, a new Boeing 737 Max plane crashed into the Java Sea just 13 minutes after taking off from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 189 passengers and crew members on board.

Girardi Keese represented "nearly a dozen families" of victims of the crash in their subsequent litigation against Boeing, according to a complaint by the class-action law firm Edelson PC.

The complaint, which was filed December 2 and viewed by Insider, claimed Girardi was embezzling money from the "widows and orphans" of victims of the crash.

In its complaint, Edelson PC claims that Boeing transferred "substantial, but confidential," settlement amounts to Girardi Keese for the victims' families once a settlement was reached in early 2020 but that those funds were never distributed to the victims' families. It alleges that Girardi instead kept the money "for his own purposes and doled it out to his friends and family," including Jayne, and that the couple were using their divorce to hide the funds.

"At the heart of this deception is Defendant Girardi and his need to fund outrageous lifestyles for himself and his soon-to-be ex-wife Erika Jayne," the complaint continues. "To keep up their celebrity status, Tom and Erika must project a public image of obscene wealth at all times, and at whatever the cost."

The lawsuit cites an interview Jayne gave to E! News in 2018, revealing that she spends $40,000 a month on her "look."

"Erika even performs a song called 'Exxpen$ive,' featuring the hook 'it's expensive to be me,'" the lawsuit adds.

Insider's Stephanie Clifford reported in March that Jayne had since been listed in "at least five lawsuits" against Girardi. She's been listed as a codebtor for personal payments to American Express and the Bel-Air Country Club, and as co-owing money to Girardi Keese clients who had yet to receive their settlement money from cases.

Neither Girardi nor Jayne responded to Insider's previous requests for comment regarding Edelson PC's lawsuit.

One former 'Real Housewives' cast member said rumors of Jayne and Girardi's impending split 'had been swirling in Beverly Hills'

"I was not surprised when Erika Jayne announced she was divorcing Tom Girardi," Dana Wilkey, who appeared on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," said during the documentary.

"I can tell you that it may or may not have had to do with financial problems," she added with a laugh, saying she couldn't "elaborate" on the rumors.

During this season of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," Jayne told her fellow cast members that she thought she was "going to hold that man's hand until he died," seemingly referring to Girardi. She also insists, in a trailer for the new season, that she didn't know about the lawsuits before filing for divorce.

"Orphans and widows, it makes you feel sick," Dorit Kemsley proclaims during a dinner party, directly referencing the lawsuit.

"Did you know any of this?" Kyle Richards then asks Jayne.

"No one knows the answer but him," Jayne responds.

Meanwhile, Girardi has been forced into involuntary bankruptcy

The bankruptcy trustees are now liquidating his assets to pay back creditors, according to "The Housewife and the Hustler." They're also asking for special counsel to recover assets from Jayne, who, according to the documentary, claims that many of the items were gifts to her and thus separate property.

A judge held Girardi in civil contempt in December after he declined to explain why he couldn't pay $2 million to four of his clients in the Boeing case.