Rachel Leviss claimed Tom Sandoval “wore down [her] defenses” after she was left “remoted” by her breakup with James Kennedy, based on an emotional letter she penned in her revenge porn case.
Jul. 2 2024, Printed 7:00 p.m. ET
Former Vanderpump Guidelines star Rachel Leviss claimed her ex-fling Tom Sandoval “wore down [her] defenses” after she was left “remoted” by her breakup with James Kennedy, based on an emotional letter she penned in her revenge porn case.
RadarOnline.com obtained a duplicate of the brand new assertion Leviss submitted to the court docket, which detailed her model of the occasions that prompted her to sue Sandoval and his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Madix.
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The go well with stemmed from the notorious seven-month-long affair between Leviss and Sandoval — coined “Scandoval” — that shocked Bravo followers when the information broke in March of final yr. Madix, 39, mentioned she had no thought her live-in boyfriend of 9 years had been dishonest on her till she discovered erotic movies of Leviss, 29, on Sandoval’s telephone.
Leviss sued her former costars this previous February, accusing Sandoval, 41, of recording FaceTime movies exhibiting her “in a state of undress and masturbating” with out her “information or consent,” and alleging Madix “distributed them and/or confirmed them to others.”
Rachel Leviss could drag Vanderpump Guidelines execs into her explosive revenge porn lawsuit towards Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix.
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Madix demanded the go well with be tossed earlier this month and denied sharing any express movies of Leviss with third events. She additionally lately filed a movement to have her title stricken from the lawsuit beneath the anti-SLAPP statute, which protects Californians from litigation that violates their rights to free speech.
In response, Leviss’ powerhouse authorized crew argued that her lawsuit was not “an assault on [Madix’s] proper to talk freely about issues of public concern,” because the defendant claimed. In addition they argued Madix’s conduct “can’t be protected by the anti-SLAPP statute as a result of it was unlawful.”
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On June 28, Leviss submitted a declaration to the court docket to assist her argument towards the anti-SLAPP movement, calling Madix “a principal contributor to my emotional misery.”
In her letter, the mannequin described her experiences from the time she first appeared on the truth present in 2016, whereas relationship Kennedy, 32, and the following occasions that left her “in a particularly darkish and scary place mentally.”
“After breaking off my engagement to Kennedy, I grew to become more and more remoted,” she wrote. Following her break up from the DJ in late 2021, Leviss “started to open up to Sandoval,” and the pair “grew to become more and more shut.”
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Leviss filed her lawsuit towards Sandoval and Ariana Madix in February.
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Leviss mentioned she “started to depend on [Sandoval] for emotional assist” whereas “he, in flip, started to open up to me concerning the dire state of his relationship with Madix, describing it as a enterprise partnership and casting its finish as foregone.”
“I seen Sandoval as a detailed confidante and buddy and our relationship as platonic,” she continued, “It grew to become more and more clear, nevertheless, that Sandoval had totally different intentions.”
“By the Summer time of 2022, Sandoval had worn down my defenses,” Leviss wrote, saying they “began sleeping collectively in August and continued doing so by means of the early months of 2023.”
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The key couple “commonly communicated” by means of FaceTime, “generally sexually,” she mentioned, noting that these conversations had been “confidential.” Leviss characterised the calls as “personal communications reflecting a clandestine affair.”
Nonetheless, recordings had been allegedly captured round February 2023 whereas she was “in a non-public residence,” Leviss mentioned.
“Sandoval by no means requested my permission to report them, and I used to be not conscious he was doing so,” she claimed, “Had he requested, I’d have mentioned no. If I had recognized he had finished so anyway, I’d have been livid and demanded he delete them.”
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Leviss first appeared on Vanderpump Guidelines in 2016 whereas relationship Kennedy.
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“In no way would I’ve consented to being recorded,” she insisted, including, “Given Sandoval’s obvious apply of secretly recording me, I’ve each cause to imagine that he captured extra compromising movies and/or photos of me.”
After Madix found the movies, she despatched Leviss three textual content messages on March 1, 2023. The primary two had been video recordings and the third learn, “you might be DEAD TO ME.”
“I reacted to Madix’s messages with shock and alarm,” Leviss recalled. Whereas admitting that she “was not shocked” at her costar’s anger, she mentioned the truth that Madix now had entry to the specific movies “made an already troublesome state of affairs decidedly worse.”
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“It’s not simply that Madix had found the recordings and confronted me about their contents. If that had been all that occurred, Madix wouldn’t have been named on this lawsuit.”
Leviss wrote that she had “each cause to imagine” that Madix “confirmed the recordings to others, describing the solid member as “bent on revenge.”
“What I do know is that I used to be completely petrified of Madix’s intentions, and her actions (as acknowledged by her) brought about me excessive emotional misery.”
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Madix and Sandoval broke up final March after 9 years collectively.
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Shortly afterward, Leviss claimed, “Sandoval admitted that he recorded me with out my consent and apologized (sheepishly) for having finished so.”
The ordeal left her psychological well being “in absolute shambles,” Leviss wrote, “and I knew that I wanted pressing psychological assist.”
She spent three months in a psychological well being facility following the scandal, and claimed her remedy value greater than $115k.
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Leviss is looking for damages and injunctive aid from her two former costars, claiming they brought about her “catastrophic psychological hurt.”
A listening to to debate Madix’s anti-SLAPP movement is scheduled for July 11.