Who Is Tom Sandoval Dating Now? He Already Has a New GF After the Raquel Affair

Karlee Hale (2023)

Tom Sandoval and influencer Karlee Hale were first linked in May 2023 after The Sun reported that the two were dating after Tom’s breakup with Raquel Leviss, whom he had cheated on his girlfriend, Ariana Madix, with. 

A representative for Tom, however, denied the rumors to TMZ, telling the site that he and Karlee are “just friends.” The Sun’s report came after Tom and Karlee were photographed at dinner together at the Austin Proper Hotel in Austin, Texas, where Tom was to perform a concert with his band, Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras. Tom’s representive denied that the dinner was a date and claimed that there were other people there. 

Karlee has since deactivated all of her social media accounts, including Instagram and TikTok.

Raquel Leviss (2022 – 2023)

Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ affair started in August 2022. Tom’s ex-girlfriend, Ariana Madix, whom he cheated with Raquel on, confirmed the timeline in the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale. In the episode, Ariana claimed that Raquel told her that her and Tom’s affair started around early August 2022 after the death of Ariana’s dog, Charlotte, and her girls’ tripwith other Vanderpump Rules cast members.

“I went with Tom to Tom Tom because he had that party thing. I found a screen recording of them on FaceTime,” Ariana told Katie Maloney and Scheana Shay of how she learned of Tom and Raquel’s affair. “It was literally from the night before. He was at [Tom] Schwartz’s.” She continued, “I called Raquel and I started like, making her like, f—ing tell me what the f—? When did this start? She said, ‘Right after the girls trip.’ I’m like, ‘You mean right after Charlotte died?’”

Ariana also revealed that Raquel told her that she and Tom kissed, while Tom confessed that they had sex. “She said they kissed,” Ariana said. “Well, later that night when we were out here, I pressed Tom. And he said, well, they actually f—ed in her car that night. And he didn’t have a key to get in so he had to ring the doorbell and I had to let him in.”

Tom Schwartz also confirmed on an episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in April 2023 that he first learned of Tom and Raquel’s romance in August 2022. “I learned in late August about the affair,” he said. He claimed that Sandoval told him that he and Raquel had a “one-night stand,” but it wasn’t until January 2023 that he learned their relationship was a full affair.“Then it became — from my point of view — an emotional affair … But I didn’t think it was a linear thing,” Schwartz said, adding that he was unaware Tom and Raquel’s relationship “steadily progressing” after their one-night stand.

Tom Schwartz also confirmed on an episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in April 2023 that he first learned of Tom and Raquel’s romance in August 2022. “I learned in late August about the affair,” he said. He claimed that Sandoval told him that he and Raquel had a “one-night stand,” but it wasn’t until January 2023 that he learned their relationship was a full affair.“Then it became — from my point of view — an emotional affair … But I didn’t think it was a linear thing,” Schwartz said, adding that he was unaware Tom and Raquel’s relationship “steadily progressing” after their one-night stand.

Schwartz told host Andy Cohen that he fully learned of the affair in January 2023 after Sandoval admitted to being “in love with Raquel.” “I was flabbergasted but not surprised because, I think, there’s a lot of people out there who kind of knew it was an open secret,” Schwartz said.

News broke of Tom and Raquel’s affair in March 2023 two days after Ariana found an explicit video between Tom and Raquel on his phone. A month later, Tom claimed in an interview on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast that he and Raquel were taking a break on their relationship. “We’re really good friends. We’re not putting any label on it,” he said. Tom also denied that he and Raquel were “friends with benefits.”

In May 2023, news broke that Tom and Raquel had broken nine months after their affair started.

“Raquel dipped out. Sandoval is not the one for her,” a source told Page Six at the time.“Raquel dipped out. Sandoval is not the one for her.”

A source for The Messenger, however, claimed that Tom was the one who ended the relationship to “focus” on his music career with his cover band, Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras. “His relationships with everyone right now are on the back burner, and he’s focusing on his music,” the source said. “He’s about to turn 40 and trying his best to move away from all of this, but he’s struggling at times. Like anyone trying to better themselves, it’s one day at a time.”

A source also denied to People that Tom and Raquel broke up because they were never in a relationship in the first place. “Tom and Raquel never put a label on their relationship to begin with,” the insider said. “After their affair was exposed and the blowback they received, they said that before defining things, they needed to take time to address the issues in their own lives that drove them to this in the first place. And that’s where things still are.”

Ariana Madix (2014 – 2023)

Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix started dating 2014. In Season 2 of Vanderpump Rules, Tom’s ex-girlfriend, Kristen Doute, accused him of cheating on her with Ariana while they were still together. Later in the season, Tom confirmed the infidelity and confessed to kissing Ariana at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nevada, while he was still dating Kristen.

Less than a year after the Vanderpump Rules Season 2 finale, Tom and Ariana confirmed they were dating with a post on Instagram. “Leave it to me to post this one,” Ariana wrote in the caption. The two published their first book together, a cocktail recipes book titled Fancy AF Cocktails: Drink Recipes from a Couple of Professional Drinkers, in December 2019. 

Ariana and Tom bought their first house together, a farmhouse-style home in Los Angeles’ Valley Village, in 2019. “Every room is different because Tom and I both have different individual styles and then we’ve really worked hard to put those two very different ideas together,” Ariana told People in 2021 “In some rooms, it’s definitely like the both of us and then in other rooms, it’s more me or more him.” Tom added, “We both have our own tastes and style, but we also have strong personalities.”

In an interview with Watch What Happens Live in 2021, Ariana revealed why she and Tom hadn’t married yet. “I think the big thing for me is that I’m not really into the whole fanfare of it,” she said. “It’s really more about the two people. So if it was just about us, you know, I honestly think I would be more open to it. I just don’t want it to be like a big thing about having a giant wedding and a bachelorette party and all that bulls—t.”

In Vanderpump Rules Season 9, Ariana revealed that she froze her eggs in case she and Tom wanted to have children in the future. “Surprise! I froze my eggs,” she said in a confessional interview. “Me and Scheana [Shay] were actually going together to freeze our eggs. And then she got pregnant.” She continued, “It’s about having agency over my own body and my own future. It’s also kind of a nice fun ‘f— you’ to anybody who questions my values or my choices.”

Tom and Ariana broke up after nine years together in February 2023 after news that Tom cheated on Ariana with their Vanderpump Rules co-star, Raquel Leviss. “They had been having problems for a while, but this was the final straw for Ariana,” a source told People at the time. “She put up with a lot over the years, but she won’t sit back and be disrespected this way.”

A second source told People, “This has been going on for upwards of seven months — all the while, Tom was sleeping next to Ariana in bed. She was completely blindsided by this; devastated doesn’t even scratch the surface of how she feels.”

Ariana confirmed the cheating rumors in an Instagram post on March 15, 2023. “hi. where to begin? i want to express my most sincere gratitude for the outpouring of love and support i have received from friends, family, and people i’ve never even met in the last two weeks.” she captioned a photo of her on Instagram. “when i have felt like i couldn’t even stand, you all have given me the strength to continue and seen me through my darkest hours.”

She continued, “to say i have been devastated and broken is an understatement. however, i know that i am not in this alone. so many of my closest friends are also grieving this loss right now and reeling from this betrayal on so many levels. i am so f—ing lucky to have the best support system in the world and i hope i can repay every single person for the love you have shown me.” She endedher post, “what doesn’t kill me better run.”

Ariana confronted Tom over his affair with Raquel in the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, in which she called their relationship “bulls—t.” Ariana continued to slam Tom and Raquel in an interview with Watch What Happens Live after the episode, calling the season “the fabrication of a narrative that was being formed the entire time without my knowledge, behind my back, by not just my ex-boyfriend but his little flying monkeys, as well.”

She also denied Tom’s claim that he tried to break up with her before news broke of his affair with Raquel. “From the moment I found out, he was screaming at me. We were in the backyard and he threw a beer can … he was more concerned about people hearing at TomTom than how I felt at all,” she said. “I think there’s some part of him that’s really loving the attention that this has brought him and as long as people continue to give him that attention, he will be happy about it.”

During the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, Ariana revealed that she learned of Tom and Raquel’s affair after his phone fell out of his pockets while he was performing at a concert with his band, Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras. In Tom’s phone, Ariana found an explicit video between him and Raquel, who was in New York City for an interview on Watch What Happens Live with Scheana Shay. During her own interview with Watch What Happens Live after the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, Ariana called the moment she phoned Raquel to confront her about the affair “odd.” “It was like she didn’t want to tell me anything. I had to beg, I was screaming, crying, throwing up, begging for some sort of something,” she said. “I said, ‘If you’ve ever given a crap about me, if you’ve ever cared, just as a woman, tell me something.’ All I could get out of her was there was a kiss and of course she framed it as: ‘It was after [the] girls’ trip.'”

When asked if she thought Tom and Raquel were in love, Ariana told host Andy Cohen, “I don’t know if they even know what that means.”

Kristen Doute (2007 – 2013)

Tom Sandoval and Kristen Doute started dating in 2007 after both working at Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurant Sexy Unique Restaurant—also known as SUR—in West Hollywood, California. 

They made their reality TV debut on Season 1 of Vanderpump Rules in 2013. They split that same year after rumors that Kristen cheated on Tom with their Vanderpump Rules co-star, Jax Taylor, in Season 2. Jax was one of Tom’s best friends and the ex-boyfriend of Kristen’s best friend Stassi Schroeder. Kristen confirmed the rumor was true in the Vanderpump Rules Season 2 finale, where she and Jax confessed to having sex on a couch in Kristen and Tom’s apartment while was asleep. 

Season 2 also saw Kristen accuse Tom of cheating on her with Vanderpump Rules co-star, Ariana Madix, which he also confirmed. The next season also saw Kristen accuse Tom of cheating Ariana with a woman he met in Miami, Florida, who has since been nicknamed “Miami Girl.” . “I wake up every morning with a smile on my face knowing that I no longer live in a total dump cleaning up after someone else,” Kristen told Us Weekly in 2014.

After Tom and Ariana’s breakup in 2023 following his affair with their Vanderpump Rules co-star, Raquel Leviss, Kristen slammed Tom and Raquel on her Instagram. “Karma is indeed coming. So Raquel should just move home,” Kristen said in an Instagram video at the time. Kristen, who was fired from Vanderpump Rules after Season 8, also made an appearance in the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, where she consoled Ariana following Tom’s infidelity.