Erika Jayne Sued by Designer Over Claims of Fraudulent Credit score Card Prices

Erika Jayne used Secret Service brokers and American Categorical to extort cash from a Hollywood designer, ruining his life and profession within the course of … so says a brand new lawsuit.

The ‘Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star and two Secret Service brokers are amongst these being sued by Chris Psaila, who claims Erika corrupted the brokers and had them prosecute him over her claims that his costume firm fraudulently charged her over $800,000.

In accordance with the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Psaila claims Erika gave him and his retailer, Marco Marco, permission to cost her card for costumes and providers he designed, created and offered for her performances … and he says Erika’s estranged husband, Tom Girardi, was the account holder and she or he was a licensed consumer.

Psaila claims he began working with Erika in 2014 and every little thing was kosher till she falsely claimed Psaila had racked up $800k to $900k in fraudulent prices on her bank card from 2015 to 2016.

Psaila insists Erika obtained each piece of clothes and providers from these prices.

Within the docs, he claims Erika and Tom weaponized the Secret Service to maliciously prosecute him … believing the previous couple bribed agent Robert Savage, then the top of Secret Service’s Los Angeles workplace, to criminally examine Psaila and finally cost him with crimes.

Psaila additionally claims AMEX accepted Erika’s false statements of unauthorized prices and refunded Erika and Tom over $787k with out giving the designer a chance to dispute her claims … and he says AMEX informed the Secret Service Erika was a sufferer of his fraud.

In his swimsuit, Psaila claims Tom and Savage had a soft relationship … and he says Savage had his personal “historical past of falsely billing for advance Presidential location scouting journeys” that ultimately compelled him out of the Secret Service.

Psaila claims Tom bribed Savage to analyze him by agreeing to symbolize Savage in a lawsuit in opposition to Volkswagen, whereas additionally promising to pay Savage $100k when the investigation in Psaila began.

The designer says Tom and Savage’s relationship was not disclosed when he was going through prosecution and says the felony case in opposition to him was finally dismissed practically 5 years after it began … however he says he suffered excessive emotional misery, monetary hurt to his enterprise, plus excessive emotional, psychological, and bodily accidents on account of the ordeal.

Psaila goes after Erika, AMEX, Savage and others for no less than $18.2 million.

A rep for AMEX tells TMZ … “In late 2016, federal regulation enforcement contacted American Categorical relating to its investigation into fraud by Mr. Psaila. Whereas it’s our coverage to not touch upon the precise exercise on a person Card Member’s accounts, we adopted our common processes and procedures all through this investigation as we handled regulation enforcement. We didn’t provoke the investigation, nor did we proactively contact regulation enforcement, and the knowledge regulation enforcement requested from us was typical in fraud investigations. We didn’t play any function within the felony investigation of Mr. Psaila or his enterprise apart from responding to inquiries from regulation enforcement.”

We reached out to Erika … up to now no phrase again.