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- Rachel Leviss’ lawsuit towards Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval is ready for trial on Nov. 3, 2025.
- Leviss accuses Sandoval of recording specific movies with out consent, Madix of sharing them.
- The choose guidelines Madix’s actions usually are not protected by the anti-SLAPP statute, and will represent revenge porn.
Rachel Leviss’s lawsuit towards her former Vanderpump Rules co-stars Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval has taken one other flip. Regardless of Madix and Sandoval’s a number of makes an attempt to have the case thrown out, the choose has formally set them togo on trial on November 3, 2025. Which means the proceedings within the notorious authorized battle involving Leviss, her ex-BFF Madix, and former boyfriend Tom Sandoval, which can be being known as ‘Scandoval’ is formally shifting ahead.
Leviss filed the case again in February 2024 towards her co-stars for claims of revenge porn, eavesdropping, invasion of privateness, and intentional infliction of emotional misery. The lawsuit claims that Sandoval recorded specific movies of himself and Leviss with out her information or consent. And if that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, Ariana Madix obtained and shared at the least two clips of footage with out permission.
Madix has denied distributing the movies and filed a movement in April 2024 to dismiss the lawsuit beneath the anti-SLAPP statute, which safeguards free speech in California. Nonetheless, at a listening to on July 11, 2024, LA Superior Courtroom Choose Daniel Crowley clarified that Madix’s actions have been not protected by the anti-SLAPP statute. Which means what Rachel Leviss claims she did was unlawful in keeping with the legislation.
Leviss’s Lawyer Claims Ariana Madix Hates Her
In Might 2024, People reported that Leviss had formally been granted the flexibility to maneuver ahead together with her lawsuit towards Sandoval and Madix. Nonetheless, the outlet additionally reported that Tom Sandoval was combating again! He claimed that Leviss had filmed the movies herself, then shared them voluntarily after Madix discovered about their dishonest. Madix and Sandoval had been collectively for 9 years earlier than calling it quits when his affair with Leviss was made public. Their sneaky romance went on for six months whereas Madix had no concept that two folks she cared essentially the most about on the earth have been betraying her.
Nonetheless, in spite of everything this drama and with the choose’s newest ruling, Leviss’s legal professional, Bryan Freedman lastly expressed his satisfaction with the court docket’s resolution. Whereas talking to Deadline, Freedman declared that Madix doesn’t have “a free speech proper to interrupt into her boyfriend’s cellphone,” not to mention do it to steal sexually compromising movies of one other girl.
The legal professional added that Madix’s anger towards Rachel after the cheating scandal can’t justify her actions, which have violated a number of prison legal guidelines. Freedman shared that Madix’s actions clearly represent “revenge porn.” Not simply that, however he additionally thinks that the one cause Madix did all of this was to “terrorize [Leviss], to place her on discover that Ms. Madix is aware of concerning the affair and hates her.” Nonetheless, whereas the choose gave weight to Leviss’s claims of revenge porn, he dominated that she must submit extra proof to show that Sandoval had inflicted “emotional misery” upon her.
You may meet up with the ‘Scandoval’ drama and stream earlier episodes of Vanderpump Guidelines on Peacock.
Vanderpump Rules
Finest referred to as considered one of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump opens the salacious kitchen doorways of her unique Hollywood restaurant and lounge, SUR.
- Launch Date
- January 7, 2013
- Solid
- Lisa Vanderpump , Katie Maloney , Scheana Shay , Tom Sandoval
- Seasons
- 10
