Tom Sandoval is in hot water regarding Rachel Leviss‘s lawsuit against him. According to reports from Courthouse News Science, A California judge on Friday largely rejected a bid by Vanderpump Rules star “Tom Sandoval to pare down a lawsuit filed against him by Rachel Leviss.”
The lawsuit:
The VPR villain was sued his former paramour for “eavesdropping and invasion of privacy, following an incident last year in which Tom’s longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix, discovered secretly recorded and sexually explicit videos on Sandoval’s phone showing Rachel ‘in a state of undress and masturbating.'”
Sandoval’s rebuttal to the lawsuit:
Rachel “made the videos of herself and intentionally shared the videos with the defendant,” claimed Tom’s lawyer. “It’s not eavesdropping.” Bryan Freedman, Leviss’ attorney, said that Sandoval’s “argument misstated the nature of his client’s legal claims. Leviss, he said, was claiming that Sandoval surreptitiously recorded FaceTime calls between the two of them.”
The former beauty pageant contestant’s lawyer countered. “This was a FaceTime conversation, and he was secretly recording them for his own personal and sexual gratification.”
In case you missed it, Sandoval fired back at Rachel describing her lawsuit as “a thinly veiled attempt to extend her fame and to rebrand herself as the victim” in the Scandoval affair. With the suit, Leviss was “denigrating her former friend Madix as a ‘scorned woman’ and Sandoval as ‘predatory.'”
Rachel – 1 / Sandoval – 0:
Sandoval requested Judge Daniel Crowley sustain the demurrer as to the suit’s intentional infliction of emotional distress claim. Tom’s lawyers claim he “did not act with the intention of inflicting injury to” Rachel. Unfortunately for the worm with a mustache, the judge denied the demurrer, allowing the case overall to proceed.
“It strains credulity to imagine that secretly recording someone would not be an invasion of privacy,” noted Rachel’s legal team after the hearing. “That feels like the very definition of invasion of privacy.”
The XXX video:
Rachel’s lawsuit against Tom states, “Given Sandoval’s apparent practice of secretly recording their video calls, Leviss has every reason to assume there are additional illicit videos and/or photographs of her that she has not yet seen.”
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Bravo TV fans react:
- Wonder what this means for Tom and what his attorneys will try to do next. I’m sure they’ll still try to get it thrown out. Or maybe come to some kind of out of court settlement 🤷♂️
- I’m beginning to like this fight
- He got the IIED claim dismissed so that is a partial victory. I think this case will settle as we get closer to discovery.
- I’m pretty sure Sandoval may have to serve time if he is convicted. This is major
