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It’s by no means a very good signal when the legal professionals get entangled, particularly when citing revenge porn legal guidelines. Such seemed to be the case on Monday (Mar. 6) when attorneys for Raquel Leviss despatched a letter to a number of Vanderpump Rules solid members and pals, per TMZ. Raquel’s legal professionals reportedly claimed that the intimate FaceTime recording between her and Tom Sandoval — whose discovery subsequently led to Tom’s break up along with his longtime companion, Ariana Madix – was recorded with out her consent. Raquel’s legal professionals reportedly cited a California revenge porn regulation that outlawed “nonconsensual pornography” and the dissemination of such materials.
Raquel’s legal professionals reportedly warned the Vanderpump Rules solid that any distribution of the recording – be it on social media or being shared with one other particular person – can be a criminal offense. The letter reportedly doesn’t particularly accuse Tom of illegally recording the dialog; as an alternative, the letter orders anybody in possession of the recording to delete it from their telephones, the cloud, or “any other manner or method in which the recording may exist,” per TMZ. The letter ended with the legal professionals saying this “matter should be taken very seriously.” HollywoodLife has reached out for affirmation about this letter.
In overview: Tom, 39, a Vanderpump Rules solid member since Jan. 2013, started relationship Ariana, 37, in 2014. Raquel appeared on Vanderpump in 2016 as co-star James Kennedy’s girlfriend in season 5. The alleged affair started in mid-2022, however Ariana solely discovered in March 2023 after she reportedly unearthed a sexual selfie video from Raquel and a “history of inappropriate texts.” She ended their nine-year relationship then and there.
Tom broke his silence on Mar. 05. “I fully understand and deserve [your] anger and disappointment towards me, but please leave [his business partner Tom Schwartz], my friends, and family out of this situation,” he wrote initially of his prolonged message. “Please direct [your] anger towards me and not them. They did nothing wrong.” After expressing remorse that his enterprise companions had been caught within the crossfire of his private life, Tom mentioned he can be “taking a step back [and] taking a hiatus out of respect for my employees [and] partners. I need some time to address everything else.”
Fans will get an opportunity to watch this drama unfold on tv. Andy Cohen, the godfather of Bravo actuality tv, mentioned on Mar. 6 that the cameras had been on when the drama went down. “You may have heard rumors that the cameras were up over the weekend,” he informed his Radio Andy viewers on Sirius XM. “Yup, the cameras have been up on everyone getting reactions and filming. You will see this play out in a sense this season of Vanderpump Rules, before the reunion.”