Raquel Leviss sued Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval on Thursday.
Feb. 29 2024, Printed 5:00 p.m. ET
Ariana Madix was allegedly conscious of her boyfriend Tom Sandoval‘s affair months earlier than the information of Scandoval broke — and so was the remainder of the Vanderpump Guidelines solid, a minimum of, based on Raquel Leviss. RadarOnline.com obtained Leviss’ explosive lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday towards Madix and Sandoval.
Within the paperwork, she claimed Madix “knew about it [the affair] as early as Fall of 2022” and “desperately” wanted the plot twist as a result of she was allegedly “on the chopping block.”
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The information of Scandoval broke in March 2023, however Raquel claimed the “affair was, actually, well-known to many solid members,” allegedly together with Ariana.
Leviss stated she “started sleeping” with Ariana’s boyfriend of 9 years “on or about August 10, 2022,” including their affair continued “as Sandoval’s relationship with Madix additional deteriorated.”
The ex-Vanderpump Guidelines star alleged that “though, purportedly secret, the affair was, actually, well-known to many solid members and suspected by others” as she and Sandoval “weren’t significantly discrete.”
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She claimed Madix was tuned into her sexual relationship with Sandoval.
“Leviss is knowledgeable and believes, and on such info and perception alleges, that Madix knew about it as early because the Fall of 2022,” she charged within the lawsuit, citing that “in December of 2022, Madix scolded Leviss and Sandoval for being handsy in public, admonishing them to avoid wasting the story for Season 11.”
Raquel claimed Ariana was on the “chopping block” and ‘Vanderpump Guidelines’ was on the verge of being canceled pre-Scandoval.
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Leviss claimed that on the time, Vanderpump Guidelines was “dealing with an unsure future” because the present had “grown stale.”
“Madix, specifically, was reportedly on the chopping block,” the docs learn. “Within the absence of a sticky new storyline, there’s each cause to consider Vanderpump Guidelines would have been canceled.”
Leviss stated, “Madix was conscious of those pressures as Sandoval, and each have been closely invested financially and reputationally within the present remaining on the air,” including, “By extension, if their relationship was already on the rocks and if Sandoval was intent on overtly finishing up a bootleg affair with one other solid member, that they had each incentive to leverage these salacious threads into the storyline Vanderpump Guidelines so desperately wanted.”
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She stated that Ariana and Tom have been “closely invested financially and reputationally within the present remaining on the air.”
As RadarOnline.com reported, Leviss sued her ex-friend and former lover for revenge porn, eavesdropping, and invasion of privateness on Thursday.
She alleged Sandoval recorded the illicit movies of her that Madix discovered on his telephone in March 2023 “with out her information or consent,” and Ariana “distributed them and/or confirmed them to others.”
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Leviss additionally expressed concern there could be extra footage of her, claiming that “given Sandoval’s obvious follow of secretly recording their video calls, Leviss has each cause to imagine there are further illicit movies and/or pictures of her that she has not but quickly.”
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Raquel famous that whereas her affair with Tom “injected life into Vanderpump Guidelines,” it additionally prompted “mayhem” in her personal life.
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Leviss claimed that whereas Scandoval “injected life into Vanderpump Guidelines,” it additionally prompted “mayhem in Leviss’s life, culminating in months-long in-patient remedy at a psychological well being facility and her departure from the present.”
She added, “Fomented by Bravo and Evolution along with the solid, Leviss was subjected to a public skewering with little precedent and have become, with out exaggeration, some of the hated girls in America.”
Leviss is suing for unspecified damages.
RadarOnline.com has reached out to Sandoval and Madix’s reps for remark.