Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval have responded to Rachel Leviss‘ lawsuit claiming revenge porn, eavesdropping, invasion of privateness and intentional infliction of emotional misery within the wake of the “Scandoval” that performed out final yr on Bravo’s Vanderpump Guidelines.
Madix on Friday filed a declaration citing California’s anti-SLAPP legislation which protects towards frivolous lawsuits. In response to Leviss’ lawsuit that was filed in February (which you’ll learn right here), Madix recounted how she first discovered of the affair between her then-boyfriend Sandoval and Leviss; she discovered video of Leviss masturbating on Sandoval’s cellphone.
Madix says she made a duplicate of the video however by no means shared it others, least of all manufacturing, in response to the declaration. When she confronted Sandoval in regards to the discovery, he deleted the copy.
“I didn’t ship the movies to anybody else. Nor did I share, show, or present the movies to anybody else,” Madix stated within the declaration. “To be clear, I solely noticed the video of plaintiff masturbating in locations secluded from others.”
The declaration additionally features a image of the textual content she instantly despatched to Leviss, which says “you’re lifeless to me.” Madix’s declaration may be learn right here.
For his half, Sandoval filed a movement final week to strike parts of Leviss’ lawsuit that addressed the best way the specific video was obtained.
“These movies had been created by Leviss and revealed by Leviss to Sandoval through a consensual alternate on Facetime, i.e., ‘their video calls,’” the declaration stated, which you’ll learn right here. “Based mostly on Leviss’ personal allegations, Sandoval merely saved personal copies of the movies that Leviss had filmed and shared with him.”
“Leviss’ lawsuit is a thinly veiled try to increase her fame and to rebrand herself because the sufferer as a substitute of the opposite girl whereas denigrating her former buddy Madix as a ‘scorned girl’ and her former paramour Sandoval as ‘predatory,’” Sandoval’s movement continued.
In her lawsuit filed in February, Leviss claimed that Scandoval “prompted mayhem in Leviss’s life, culminating in months-long in-patient therapy at a psychological well being facility and her departure from the present. Fomented by Bravo and Evolution along side the solid, Leviss was subjected to a public skewering with little precedent and have become, with out exaggeration, some of the hated ladies in America.”
“It’s clear that Bravo intentionally sacrificed Leviss for the sake of its business pursuits from its refusal to permit her the chance to inform her aspect of the story and defend herself, which she repeatedly begged for permission to do,” Leviss’ submitting continued.