The earrings’ current location — a safe deposit box — is one of the only certain things about them. When Times reporters attempted to trace the gems’ provenance, they found a tangled web of contradictions that pointed to a deeper mystery.
When Times reporters attempted to trace the gems’ provenance, they found a tangled web of contradictions that pointed to a deeper mystery.The diamond earrings he gave her around the time of their 2000 wedding, when he was 60 and she was 28, were part of a collection that grew to include rings, bracelets, watches and other jewelry with a total value he once estimated at $15 million.
“Fortunately, almost all of Erika’s major pieces of jewelry were in a massive safe that could not be opened or moved,” Girardi wrote in a 2012 letter to tax authorities that was later filed in Bankruptcy Court. The earrings were not in the safe, the lawyer said, “but rather in a little cup in her dressing room. The thieves took the earrings, two of my watches, two of her watches and a bracelet.
The police records are consistent with the Girardis’ own timeline in a 2009 lawsuit against their homeowners association. The couple asserted in that litigation that diamond earrings were stolen Dec. 28 from a glass jar on a bathroom counter, along with several other pieces of jewelry. Erika Girardi’s attorney, Evan Borges, declined to comment on the apparent discrepancy. But he has previously said in court papers that the earrings were “innocently received” and that the bankruptcy trustee was trying to blame his client “for events of 15 years ago at a law firm in which Erika had no part.”
About a decade ago, Girardi wanted to buy a diamond ring, according to Menzilcian and a family friend, Berj Boyajian. To pay for the stone, Menzilcian borrowed money from Boyajian. At the time, Boyajian, a lawyer, was connected to people overseeing a settlement fund for victims of the Armenian genocide. Without the approval of the settlement board, he transferred $150,000 of the funds to M.M. Jewelers, which repaid Boyajian a year later.
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