Scandoval now consists of an all-out turf battle. Ariana Madix has filed a lawsuit in opposition to her ex, Tom Sandoval, over the Los Angeles residence they co-own.
In keeping with TMZ, which obtained the courtroom paperwork, Madix sued Sandoval in L.A. Superior Courtroom requesting a “partition by sale.” Translation: she needs the decide to power them to promote the house they purchased in 2019 and break up the proceeds. And never simply that. The outlet additionally stories that the courtroom paperwork state she would not desire a “division in kind,” which might basically enable considered one of them to promote to a 3rd get together.
Madix is making it clear that she needs a clear break, as in she needs them to promote the home and go about their very own separate lives. Apart from nonetheless co-owning and co-living in the identical home, Madix and Sandoval have gone their separate methods since Sandoval’s affair with Vanderpump Guidelines co-star Rachel Leviss torpedoed his nine-year relationship.
The affair — dubbed Scandoval — grew to become the speak of Hollywood and past. And over the course of the drama unfolding on what appeared like a each day foundation, followers quickly realized that Madix and Sandoval continued residing in the identical residence regardless of the affair resulting in their breakup.
Actually, Sandoval appeared on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff Podcast and defined how they convey whereas residing below the identical roof.
“We have a go-between. We text when we’re coming and going,” Sandoval revealed again in April. “All I do is I go into my room, and then she’s in her room. She’s downstairs. And then, I’ll go into the gym, and I’ll be in the gym, and when I’m done with the gym, I’ll go back to my room. And then I’ll go somewhere else. Sometimes, I stay away, but I always let them know. I’ve gone out of town a couple times. But it’s been OK. Initially it wasn’t great, and I had to stay away.”
Sandoval additionally provided an instance of what a textual content to him by their intermediary seems to be like.
“He’ll text and be like, ‘Ariana wants to try and use the gym at six,’ and I’ll be like, ‘Ok, great,'” added Sandoval, who stated the intermediary “runs” a lot of the family.
Sandoval’s feedback in regards to the uncommon residing state of affairs got here after VPR co-stars, previous and current, mentioned Sandoval’s alleged unwillingness to go away the L.A. dwelling.
Lala Kent, for instance, claimed that Sandoval refused to go away their residence, telling listeners on her Give Them Lala podcast, “Sandoval won’t leave the house. I don’t know if he will now, but for a very long time he was like, ‘I plan on being here all week and I plan on using every room in the house.'”
And by the way in which, this is identical L.A. residence the place Madix claimed Sandoval and Leviss had an affair whereas she was in one other room.
“They had sex in my guest room while I was sleeping in my own bed that he and I went into bed in together and then he left the bed and went to the guest room and f**ked her,” Madix claimed on the Name Her Daddy podcast.
It also needs to be famous that, throughout the season 11 first look launched again in November, Madix threatened Sandoval with authorized motion, although it is unclear if that risk’s associated to this lawsuit.
Season 11 of Vanderpump Guidelines premieres Jan. 30 on Bravo.
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