Anonymous wrote:“On or about August 10, 2022, Leviss and Sandoval began sleeping together. The affair continued apace as Sandoval’s relationship with Madix further deteriorated. Although purportedly secret, the affair was, in fact, well-known to may cast members and suspected by others. Leviss and Sandoval were not particularly discrete. Leviss is informed and belies, and on such information and belief alleges, that Madix knew about it as early as the Fall of 2022. Indeed, in December of 2022, Madix scolded Leviss and Sandoval for being handsy in public, admonishing them to save the story for Season 11,” the lawsuit states.
The new complaint questions the narrative of how Madix first obtained the video. It says the phone purportedly fell from Sandoval’s pocket and slid, “unlocked or otherwise fully accessible,” into the crowd, where a concert attendee was able to retrieve it and hand it to a waiting Madix, still unlocked, giving her the opportunity to search the device. Leviss says she was with another cast member, Scheana Shay, in New York when Madix texted her in response to finding the video. The text read, “you are DEAD TO ME,” and arrived with two videos of Leviss from Sandoval’s phone. Leviss alleges that Shay reacted to the revelation by “shoving” her into a wall and “punching her in the face.” (Shay is not a named defendant in the lawsuit and previously denied punching Leviss.) Two days later, on March 3, 2023, the first reports of the affair appeared on TMZ.com, with anonymous sources apparently talking about the videos with other tabloids, the lawsuit says.
Leviss says producers asked her to film with Sandoval hours later on March 4, 2023. “With cameras rolling, Leviss confronted Sandoval for secretly recording pornographic videos of her and storing them unprotected on his phone,” the lawsuit states. “Sandoval responded to Leviss’ fury with cowardice and lies, claiming falsely that he had obtained permission to record her. Seeing that Leviss was having none of it, however, Sandoval ultimately offered a reluctant admission and sheepish apology.” Leviss alleges Sandoval was “clearly rattled” by the exchange and successfully buried the exchange by threatening to cease all filming for the show unless he was given editing rights to the scene. “The scene was selectively edited to omit any mention of Sandoval’s illicit recording or Leviss’ lack of consent,” the lawsuit states.
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