Vanderpump Rules’ Tom Sandoval sues ex Ariana Madix for ‘unauthorised’ access to explicit Rachel Leviss videos
Vanderpump Rules stars Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix in legal battle over phone privacy breach
Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix, whose relationship crumbled after a shocking ‘Scandoval’ cheating scandal last year, are now locked in a legal battle.
The Vanderpump Rules star has filed a lawsuit against his ex, accusing her of a major privacy violation. He claims Ariana accessed explicit videos on his phone featuring him and their former castmate, Raquel Leviss, all without his consent. The bombshell lawsuit further alleges that she not only viewed them but also potentially shared them.
In his new ruling, obtained by Rolling Stone, the judge said Madix’s own admissions in the high-profile civil case support Leviss’ claims that Madix illegally accessed her ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval’s phone, made copies of “intimate” FaceTime recordings featuring Leviss and sent snippets of the video to Leviss with a text reading, “you are DEAD TO ME.”
He said Madix’s own admission that she locked herself in a bathroom stall to access the phone was “evidence of her lack of Sandoval’s consent” to obtain the video of Leviss in a state of undress and masturbating.
“It is abhorrent that Tom Sandoval continues to torment Ms. Madix,” Madix’s attorney, Jordan Susman, said in a statement. “From engaging in an illicit affair that shattered her home and stability, to months of emotional warfare and now this attempt to further shirk personal responsibility for the effects his actions have had on her and her emotional well-being.”
He added that they’re confident a jury will “see through this latest ploy and dismiss his frivolous claims.”
The attorney added that Madix’s anger toward Rachel after the cheating scandal cannot justify her actions, which have violated multiple criminal laws. Freedman shared that Madix’s actions clearly constitute “revenge porn.” Not just that, but he also thinks that the only reason Madix did all of this was to “terrorize [Leviss], to put her on notice that Ms.
Madix knows about the affair and hates her.” However, while the judge gave weight to Leviss’s claims of revenge porn, he ruled that she needs to submit more evidence to prove that Sandoval had inflicted “emotional distress” upon her.