Lisa Vanderpump REACTS to Tom Sandoval & Raquel Leviss Scandal
The Tom Sandoval cheating ungraded conscionable got messier: Raquel Leviss is SUR-ving ineligible letters.
Her lawyer alleges that her Vanderpump Rules co-star recorded an "intimate" FaceTime league with her without her consent, according to the letters obtained by E! News. The documents are dated March 3, days earlier she broke her silence amid allegations of a months-long affair with Tom—a romance that led to his divided from chap formed subordinate Ariana Madix after 9 years.
In ineligible letters sent to him, his ex Ariana and different members of the cast, the lawyer warned them not to stock the signaling oregon hazard breaking the law. It's not revealed what the video contained.
"We recognize that sometime precocious you and Ms. Leviss engaged successful an intimate speech connected Facetime, which you recorded without the support of Ms. Leviss," the lawyer wrote to Tom. "California is what is called a 'two enactment consent' state, and accordingly specified signaling is amerciable successful California and tin perchance exposure you to some civilian and transgression penalties."
The lawyer continued, "On behalf of Ms. Leviss, we hereby request that you delete the signaling from your telephone and from the unreality and from immoderate different mode oregon method successful which the signaling whitethorn exist."
Additionally, her ineligible squad demanded to cognize the names of immoderate people Tom sent the signaling to, advising him that immoderate organisation would interruption the California Penal Code.
In a missive to Ariana, Raquel's lawyer wrote, "We recognize that sometime precocious you became alert of a signaling illegally made by Tom Sandoval of an intimate Facetime speech betwixt Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Leviss. We admit the distress that this whitethorn person caused you. Nevertheless, we indispensable pass you that immoderate re-recording of this signaling is amerciable successful California...accordingly, if you re-recorded this archetypal signaling specified re-recording could exposure you to transgression and civilian penalties."
Raquel's legal squad demanded she delete the signaling from her telephone and the unreality if she does person a copy, and again sought the names of radical she whitethorn person sent it to.
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A akin missive sent to Vanderpump Rules stars did not code them by name, but alternatively began with the words, "Dear Gentlepersons," per the missive obtained by E! News.
E! News has reached retired to Tom and Ariana's reps but hasn't received a comment.
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Tom addressed the ungraded and his breakup for the archetypal clip March 7. "I want to apologize to Ariana," helium wrote connected Instagram. "I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that wounded idiosyncratic I love. No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly."
Raquel aboriginal addressed the cheating allegations for the archetypal time. "I privation to apologize for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans truthful invested successful our relationships," she wrote successful a March 8 Instagram post. "There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana."
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A time later, Raquel shared wherever she stands with Tom successful a connection to E! News. "Besides the indefensible circumstances surrounding our relationship, my feelings for Tom person ever been sincere and calved retired of a loving friendship," she said. "Knowing however galore radical we hurt, I request to recognize my choices and larn to marque amended ones."
She continued, "I request to instrumentality attraction of my health, enactment connected self-growth and instrumentality clip to beryllium good with being alone. I attraction for Tom, and I don't privation to statement thing oregon foretell what lies ahead. Right now, I request to heal."
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