The legal professionals spearheading the “Actuality Reckoning” have been accused of attempting to stress Vanderpump Guidelines star Tom Sandoval into throwing actuality big Bravo below the bus.
Attorneys Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos instructed the 42-year-old actuality star they’d drop a case in opposition to him if he’d “level fingers” at NBCUniversal to assist construct their case in opposition to the community, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Final yr, the legal professionals joined forces with Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum Bethenney Frankel to launch the motion, which geared toward holding NBCUniversal, Bravo’s mum or dad firm, accountable for its alleged “grotesque and wicked mistreatment” of its stars.
Sandoval, an authentic forged member of Vanderpump Guidelines, alleges Geragos and Freedman supplied to drop a harmful lawsuit in opposition to him if he would “level the finger at NBCUniversal” and assist them argue that the corporate fabricated a storyline to humiliate their consumer, his ex, Rachel “Raquel” Leviss.
In March 2023, it was revealed Sandoval had been having a months-long affair with Leviss — dishonest on his nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix, who additionally stars within the actuality collection alongside the disgraced stars.
The fallout of “Scandoval”, which got here after Madix found scandalous movies of Leviss on Sandoval’s telephone, was documented in entrance of Bravo cameras.
The Schwartz & Sandy’s proprietor stated over the summer season, Freedman and Geragos approached his attorneys, Varand Gourjian and Tara Karamians of the Gourjian Legislation Group, providing a quid professional quo.
He instructed PageSix: “My lawyer stated to me, ‘They gave you a suggestion — I do know you’re not going to take it — however I’ve to convey it to you: In the event you level the finger at NBCUniversal, they’ll drop the case in opposition to you.”
Sandoval claimed the legal professionals requested if he “could be keen” to say that NBCUniversal brokers had “put him as much as” revealing his affair to Madix.
A consultant of Gourjian Legislation Group stated: “We’re unable to touch upon settlement presents made to our consumer, however it’s my impression that, from the outset, Leviss deliberate on making the studios her actual goal, as evidenced by varied passages within the lawsuit they filed [against Sandoval and Madix].
“Tom Sandoval has persistently said that the studios had completely nothing to do with the unlucky occasions that unfolded.”