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VPR’s Raquel Leviss Sues Tom Sandoval & Ariana Madix
Scandoval present has further legal implications.
After Rachel "Raquel" Leviss filed a suit against Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval for alleged eavesdropping, revenge porn, penetration of privateness and intentional infliction of affectional distress, Madix and Sandoval person filed their responses.
For her portion Madix—who was accused of illicitly distributing intimate videos of Leviss after discovering her and Sandoval's affair—filed an anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) question against Leviss' suit connected April 26. A SLAPP suit is considered to beryllium a suit "brought by individuals and entities to dissuade their critics from continuing to nutrient antagonistic publicity," according to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (LII), and anti-SLAPP motions are utilized to disregard what are considered to beryllium meritless lawsuits.
In the motion, arsenic obtained and seen by E! News, Madix alleges her actions were protected nether her Constitutional rights—including that of escaped speech—and claims Leviss' suit has small accidental to succeed. Her filing besides includes a declaration from forensic experts whose hunt of Madix's compartment telephone "did not find immoderate attachments with videos of nude images that whitethorn person been disposable connected a abstracted device."
In effect to Madix's motion, Leviss' lawyers Mark Geragos and Bryan Freedman said successful a connection to E! News, "The lone happening much laughable than Ariana's question is her fairytale relationship of however she discovered the narration from Tom's phone. Meanwhile, we look guardant to transverse examining her connected her declaration, arsenic we person irrefutable grounds that the videos were distributed."
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Meanwhile Sandoval, who was successful a concealed narration with Leviss betwixt 2022 and 2023 portion dating Madix, filed a demurrer in effect to Leviss' suit. Similar to anti-SLAPP filings, demurrers challenge "the sufficiency oregon adequacy of pleadings of different party," per Cornell's LII, and if a demurrer is granted, cases whitethorn beryllium dismissed.
In his filing, arsenic obtained by E! News, Sandoval alleges Leviss' accusations of eavesdropping are insubstantial because, among different reasons, civilian codification does not support against "unconsented videotaping and lone protects sound-based oregon symbol-based communications," and due to the fact that Leviss' suit "does not allege immoderate facts showing that the parties' communications were confidential."
In narration to Leviss' allegations of penetration of privacy, Sandoval's filing states she "fails to allege immoderate facts showing an intrusion by" Sandoval. He likewise refutes her claims of intentional infliction of affectional distress by claiming her filing "fails to authorities facts showing that Defendant Sandoval's behaviour was outrageous, done with the requisite intent oregon that her injuries were really and proximately caused by Defendant Sandoval's conduct."
Leviss' ineligible squad likewise shared a connection with E! News successful respect to Sandoval's filing, successful which they stated, "Sandoval's effect successful the look of irrefutable grounds that volition beryllium presented successful tribunal is disturbing. Leveraging specified claims for media attraction and perpetuating victim-blaming is not conscionable deplorable but actionable."
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Juliette Harris, rep for the 29-year-old, besides issued a connection successful effect to Madix and Sandoval's filings.
"Public sentiment remains susceptible to manipulation by meticulously crafted PR statements and stunts aimed astatine shaping a peculiar narrative," she shared with E! News. "It's imperative that specified matters beryllium adjudicated done the ineligible system, relying connected factual grounds alternatively than amusement rhetoric, to guarantee justness prevails implicit sensationalism particularly with specified superior cases."
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