In a brand new lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, Leviss, 29, accused co-stars Tom Sandoval, 40, and Ariana Madix, 38, of revenge porn, eavesdropping, invasion of privateness and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Based on leisure publication US Weekly, which obtained and considered the authorized submitting, Leviss alleges that Sandoval recorded a intercourse tape of her with out her consent.
Leviss and Sandoval infamously had a bombshell affair that got here to gentle throughout Season 10 of Vanderpump Guidelines, when Sandoval was in an almost decade-long relationship with Madix. The affair — which might go on to be referred to as “Scandoval” among the many present’s followers — grabbed worldwide headlines in March 2023 and introduced record-breaking viewership to the present. A lot of the scandal revolved across the alleged existence of a sexual FaceTime name between Leviss and Sandoval, which Leviss mentioned Sandoval recorded with out her permission.
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Leviss is looking for unspecified damages and destruction of the intercourse tape. She has requested a jury trial.
Sandoval and Madix have but to remark publicly on the lawsuit or the accusations.
Within the lawsuit, Leviss says the large public consideration surrounding the dishonest scandal noticed her “humiliated and villainized for public consumption.” She argues she “stays a shell of her former self, together with her profession prospects stunted and her repute in tatters.”
Scandoval, in accordance with the authorized submitting, made Leviss “with out exaggeration, probably the most hated ladies in America.”
Leviss advised the courtroom she checked herself right into a “psychological well being facility” for 3 months as public curiosity in Scandoval exploded.
Whereas noting that she has apologized to Madix “repeatedly” for her “morally objectionable” actions, Leviss, by her legal professionals, claimed there’s extra to the story than the general public is conscious of.
“Misplaced within the combine was that Leviss was a sufferer of the predatory and dishonest habits of an older man, who recorded sexually express movies of her with out her information or consent, which have been then distributed, disseminated, and mentioned publicly by a scorned girl looking for vengeance, catalyzing the scandal,” the submitting learn.
Leviss mentioned she was “misled” by reps at Bravo, the community that airs Vanderpump Guidelines, into believing she couldn’t publicly remark in regards to the scenario.
“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 facet of the story and defend herself, which she repeatedly begged for permission to do,” the lawsuit reads.
Earlier in 2023, Leviss additionally hit a number of of her Vanderpump Guidelines co-stars with cease-and-desist letters insisting they cease talking in regards to the intimate video, because it constituted a violation of California’s “nonconsensual pornography” legal guidelines.
(One Vanderpump Guidelines solid member, Lala Kent, would go on to apparently earn sufficient cash to pay the downpayment on her home after calling out Leviss for the cease-and-desist on-line. Kent advised Leviss to ship the authorized discover to her lawyer, Darrell, then capitalized off the sale of merchandise studying, “Ship it to Darrell!”)
Bravo, NBCUniversal and the Vanderpump Guidelines producers, together with Andy Cohen, are usually not named as defendants within the lawsuit. As of this writing, there was no public remark from any of those events, both.
Leviss has to this point not appeared in Season 11 of Vanderpump Guidelines, which is at the moment airing.
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