The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler claims in her new memoir that her ex-husband took “hundreds of thousands of dollars” without her knowledge throughout their marriage.
The 44-year-old actor, best known for playing Meadow Soprano in the acclaimed HBO series, married her then-manager, A.J. DiScala, in 2003. They 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.”
It was only then that Sigler learned that significant portions of her earnings from the hit show were being moved from a corporate account into their joint account, and from there, into another account that she did not have any access to.
She writes: "This was important money. My accountant was adamant we try to go after it, 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."
Ultimately, Sigler discussed the situation with her lawyer and decided not to fight to get the missing money back, reasoning: “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.”
She added: “To this day, I don’t know what happened with the money. But I don’t care anymore. That money is a chapter I want closed forever.”
Sigler went on to say that she received a form of closure years later. In 2022, she appeared in a Sopranos-themed Super Bowl advert for Chevrolet and was paid “the exact amount of money that I chose not to pursue in the divorce.”
She put her willingness to trust DiScala down to her youth and inexperience in the industry, writing: “I was in way over my head, and A.J. seemed like the answer to all my problems. I realize now that he had no real connections, no music industry expertise, and no real knowledge. But at the time, I needed him, so I believed him. And so did my family.”
Sigler has been married to former baseball player Cutter Dykstra since 2016. They have two sons together.
DiScala was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison in 2021 after he was convicted in 2018 of two counts of securities and wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of securities fraud and four counts of wire fraud relating to his manipulation of stocks.
