Jamie-Lynn Sigler Couldn’t Afford Legal Bills to Recover Sopranos Money From Ex-Husband; Report

The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler has shared a painful part of her past in her new memoir, And So It Is…, reflecting on her marriage to her former manager, A.J. DiScala.

While discussing how they fell in love, tied the knot, and eventually split, Sigler recalled a shocking discovery about her finances.

Looking back at her divorce, the actress explained that a forensic accountant found large amounts of money missing from her accounts.

She then alleged that DiScala had been secretly taking her earnings over time, leaving her with a serious breach of trust.

According to snippets from her memoir, obtained by Fox News, after three years of tumultuous marriage, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and A.J. DiScala’s relationship ended in a messy split.

That's when Sigler hired a forensic accountant to help with her divorce proceedings, only to learn about the shocking siphoning of funds.

The accountant told her, “There are hundreds of thousands of dollars missing.”

Apparently, Sigler’s earnings from The Sopranos were initially being moved from her corporate account into her joint account with DiScala, for expenses.

But then, they were again getting transferred into another account that she did not know of or had access to.

“This was important money. My accountant was adamant we try to go after it,” Sigler wrote in her memoir.

“But my lawyer explained that if we pursued it, we would probably have to go to court, and there would likely be months of agita and legal bills to follow, and at the end of the day, it was possible that we would be unsuccessful in getting any money.”

The actress ultimately chose peace over a lawsuit as she couldn't afford the months of legal bills that would be charged to pursue the siphoning case.

Therefore, she wrote, “I’m twenty-four years old. There is no amount of money worth more than getting this man out of my life. I’ll make it back in some form one day. I need to move on.”

After Jamie-Lynn Sigler separated from A.J. DiScala in 2005 and refused to move on with the financial fraud case, the actress started dating former baseball player, Cutter Dykstra, in 2010.

They eventually got married in 2016, and later became parents of two sons, Beau Kyle Dykstra, and Jack Adam Dykstra.

Meanwhile, although DiScala didn't remarry, he went on to orchestrate a multi-million dollar market manipulation scheme.

According to reports from the DOJ, in May 2013, he and his co-conspirators arranged a reverse merger between CodeSmart, a private firm, and a publicly listed shell company.

After taking control of CodeSmart’s freely tradable shares, DiScala and his associates allegedly manipulated the stock’s price and trading activity twice, before selling the shares at a profit once the value rose to favorable levels.

DiScala was ultimately found guilty by a federal jury in May 2018 after a five-week trial.

He was convicted on multiple charges, including two counts of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, two counts of securities fraud, and four counts of wire fraud, all linked to his manipulation of stocks.

Later, in 2021, DiScala was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison and was ordered to pay $2.4 million in forfeiture.