“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne conspired with a Secret Service agent who once reportedly had an affair with Hunter Biden — to pursue fraudulent credit card fraud charges against her former clothing designer, according to an $18 million lawsuit.
Christopher Psaila accused Jayne, 52, of filing false refund requests with American Express and, through her husband, Tom Girardi, bribing Secret Service Agent Robert Savage III to “weaponize” the agency and unfairly prosecute the designer on legitimate charges she billed in 2015 and 2016, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for Central California.
Text messages labeled as being from Robert Savage III were reportedly found on the first child’s abandoned laptop.
Savage’s attorney has insisted to The Post that “my client has never met or communicated with Hunter Biden.”
Psaila said he billed Jayne more than $900,0000 for clothing and other services while he pursued a singing career from 2014-16.
The cash-strapped Girardis then allegedly conspired with Savage and other agents to pursue false criminal claims so they could recoup their dough, the lawsuit alleges.
Former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne, 52, is being sued by her former costume designer. Getty Images for Live Nation Las Vegas
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star bribed a Secret Service agent who had provided critical assistance to Hunter Biden as part of a scheme to make false accusations against his clothing designer.Getty Images
Disbarred attorney Girardi, 83, — who is reportedly battling Alzheimer’s Disease and faces federal criminal charges in Chicago and Los Angeles for allegedly stealing client funds — is a personal friend of Savage and promised him $100,000 “at the time the Secret Service began its investigation,” according to documents court.
Jayne and Psaila’s relationship went south in December 2016 when she accused him of overcharging her.
At the same time, Tom Girardi, who was not named as a defendant, bribed Savage by representing him in a civil suit against Volkswagen over the minivan’s faulty brakes — and paid him $7,500 to cover his damages, according to court papers.
Secret Service agents connected Jayne with a “secret tape recorder” at a meeting with Psaila that same month where they reviewed their payment history, court documents read. Psaila admitted that there was no wrongdoing in the recording.
Christopher Psaila accused Jayne of filing false refund requests with American Express and, through her husband, Tom Girardi.Getty Images for Annenberg Space
“Erika [Jayne] used the Secret Service and AMEX to enact an illegal private collection scheme to extort money from Plaintiff Chris Psaila,” the suit reads.
Psaila was indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in 2017, but the case was dismissed in 2021.
A spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles told the Los Angeles Times in February that the case was dropped because of “law enforcement evidence preservation issues.”
Although nothing came of the charges, Psaila said in court papers the investigation destroyed her business, prevented her and her husband from adopting a child and interfered with her ability to care for her father, who was dying of pancreatic cancer.
The suit also names former Secret Service agent Robert Savage, who once reportedly had a relationship with Hunter Biden.WireImage
“Independent federal prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office made the decision to charge the plaintiff with a crime, not anyone else,” Evan Borges, an attorney for Jayne told NBC News.
“The notion that Erika controls the US Government, or for that matter a Fortune 100 company like American Express, is a fantasy.”
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