Tom Sandoval, Luke Broderick and Kristen Doute Elyse Jankowski/Getty Photographs ; Paul Archuleta/Getty Photographs
Tom Sandoval is sharing the receipts after his ex-girlfriend Kristen Doute publicly criticized his lawsuit in opposition to Ariana Madix.
After Doute, 42, and her boyfriend, Luke Broderick, mentioned the authorized drama on their joint “Balancing Act” podcast, Sandoval, 42, slammed her remarks.
“Actually @kristendoute, I had the ‘audacity’??? I do know this actually didn’t come from @luke_broderick minutes after I made a press release,” Sandoval wrote by way of Instagram Story on Saturday, July 20, sharing a screenshot of the lads’s textual content change. “BTW at all times have love for Luke.”
In keeping with Sandoval’s screenshot, he obtained a textual content message from Broderick, 33, on Thursday, July 18. Broderick allegedly knowledgeable him that the couple have been “nearly to file a podcast” episode discussing the lawsuit. Broderick requested if Sandoval needed to “name in or say anything” concerning the state of affairs.
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Broderick additionally claimed that he understood that the authorized movement seemingly got here from a lawyer somewhat than Sandoval himself in a “transfer to separate him from Ariana.” It’s not identified whether or not Sandoval replied to the textual content.
Doute and Broderick’s “Balancing Act” podcast episode dropped afterward Thursday, through which she proclaimed her disgust within the authorized submitting.
“I used to be about to ream his asshole,” Doute quipped. “[The idea that] Tom is suing Ariana is bats—t f—ing loopy. I’ve been texting horrific issues. I don’t need any of you to examine how vile I believed that was.”
Broderick, in the meantime, took an reverse perspective.
“It’s humorous as a result of after I first noticed the article written about it, I mentioned, ‘That is in all probability one thing simply to separate Tom and Ariana, and it’s a traditional authorized continuing,’” he recalled. “As a result of within the distribution of revenge porn, his attorneys in all probability mentioned, ‘Look, if you happen to file this in opposition to Ariana, then that removes you as a result of she took it out of your telephone and subsequently certainly one of these allegations can get dropped in opposition to you.’”
Us Weekly broke the information earlier this month that Sandoval filed a lawsuit in opposition to Madix, 39, claiming that she “obtained entry” to his telephone in March 2023 and reviewed specific movies of Rachel “Raquel” Leviss with out Sandoval’s “authorization or permission.” (The movies have been how Madix initially discovered that then-boyfriend Sandoval had an affair with Leviss, 29.)
“It’s abhorrent that Tom Sandoval continues to torment Ms. Madix,” Madix’s lawyer Jordan Susman advised Us in a press release on the time. “From participating in a bootleg affair that shattered her residence and stability, to months of emotional warfare and now this try and additional shirk private accountability for the consequences his actions have had on her and her emotional wellbeing.”
The assertion continued, “Tom Sandoval is aware of full nicely what kind of privileges he and Ms. Madix shared in regard to their private communication units. If he or his mistress had their manner, it could be unlawful for somebody to find their partner or vital different was having an affair.”
In a while Thursday, Sandoval launched a press release and denied that he deliberately filed a lawsuit in opposition to Madix.
“Late Tuesday afternoon, my legal professional, Matt Geragos, whose recommendation I trusted, referred to as me concerning the Cross-Criticism within the lawsuit in opposition to myself and Ariana,” he wrote by way of Instagram. “He assured me that the motion was customary and strictly preventative in most of these lawsuits and urged me to conform to it. The phrases ‘New Lawsuit’ or ‘Suing’ weren’t articulated to me. I ought to’ve executed extra of my due diligence on the matter.”
Sandoval additional declared that “the motion in opposition to Ariana introduced on my behalf is being eliminated” and he deliberate to fireside Geragos from his authorized workforce. (The lawyer is the brother of Leviss’ legal professional, Mark Geragos.)
“By eradicating each the Cross-Criticism and the legal professional who advisable it, I hope to get by way of this case shortly, in order that Ariana and I can each lastly MOVE ON with our lives,” Sandoval concluded on the time.
