Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos, claims in her new memoir that her ex-husband, A.J. DiScala, took 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' from her without her knowledge during their marriage. The 44-year-old actress married DiScala, who was her manager at the time, in 2003; the couple divorced three years later.
In her autobiography, And So It Is..., Sigler writes that she hired a forensic accountant during the divorce proceedings, who told her: 'There are hundreds of thousands of dollars missing.' She later learned that significant portions of her earnings from the hit show were moved from a corporate account into their joint account, and then into another account she could not access.
Sigler decided against pursuing legal action to recover the money. She writes: '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... I’m 24 years old. There is no amount of money worth more than getting this man out of my life.' She added that she does not know what happened to the money but considers the matter closed.
The actress received a form of closure years later. In 2022, she appeared in a Sopranos-themed Super Bowl advertisement for Chevrolet and was paid 'the exact amount of money that I chose not to pursue in the divorce.' She attributed her willingness to trust DiScala to her youth and inexperience in the industry, writing that he 'seemed like the answer to all my problems.'
DiScala was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison in 2021 after being convicted in 2018 on multiple counts of securities and wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud related to stock manipulation. Sigler has since married former baseball player Cutter Dykstra, with whom she has two sons.
