Double Life Drama

Added: 2026-06-06

[00:00:01]This is the plaintiff, Rachel Jarrell.

[00:00:04]She says she let that two-timing rat, you know what, defendant live in her house and he stiffed her on the rent.

[00:00:11]The guy had another woman on the side for 10 years and lived with her at the same time. She's been with married men before and it's fine if it's out in the open, but this this isn't right. Bottom line, she wants her rent money and is suing for the $2,525 SHE'S OWED.

[00:00:33]THIS IS THE DEFENDANT, Hector Chavez. He says he didn't live with the plaintiff, never had keys to her apartment, and never, ever had any arrangement to pay rent. This whole lawsuit is because he got back together with his baby's mama and the plaintiff feels jilted. He's accused of two-timing.

[00:00:56]>> All parties, please raise your right hand.

[00:00:58]Be seated. Come to order, please.

[00:01:01]Let against heavens and the honor.

[00:01:03]>> Okay, Rachel Jarrell.

[00:01:05]>> Yes.

[00:01:05]>> All right, you're suing your former boyfriend Hector Chavez for $2,525 in rent and pain and suffering um that you say he owes you.

[00:01:18]Talk to me. Tell me what happened.

[00:01:20]>> I met the plaintiff in January. Um you know, we started as friends. We started talking on the phone.

[00:01:26]>> How did you two meet?

[00:01:27]>> Uh how do you mean? We met a religious store.

[00:01:31]>> Okay.

[00:01:32]>> Okay. And yeah, I know.

[00:01:34]>> That's a good one.

[00:01:36]>> So, we started we met, we kicked it, we spoke, we had a lot in common. Um we talked on the phone for a while and we started to date each other. He told me he has a 12-year-old daughter and he has a 2-year-old. He told me um he's he has no attachments, he's single. And we kicked it, we hung out. Um I met his family, I met his mom. He has a wonderful family. He met my brother, my mom, my grandmother, and um we started to live together. We started to share bills.

[00:02:02]>> you start to live together?

[00:02:03]>> In um March.

[00:02:05]>> And what did Are you saying he moved into the apartment you were already living in?

[00:02:09]>> Yeah.

[00:02:09]>> Okay. And what was the agreement according to you when he moved in?

[00:02:13]>> Oh, um the agreement was we would share the rent. My rent is 1,600, but it was dropped down to 1,350, which is 675 a piece. And I paid, you know, >> So, he agreed specifically to pay 675 per month for living there.

[00:02:25]>> Yes.

[00:02:26]>> Okay. And was he staying there every single night?

[00:02:28]>> Yeah. Monday to Sunday. And we had a great relationship. I I was happy. He was happy. And um it relationship came to a halt when his ex-girlfriend found out that he moved on. Um he was living in my house.

[00:02:42]>> This was like in April.

[00:02:44]>> Oh, 1 month later?

[00:02:46]Okay.

[00:02:47]>> I know. Um she He loaned her the car.

[00:02:50]>> the mother of both the children?

[00:02:52]>> Of the 2-year-old. He has a 12-year-old daughter with one relationship.

[00:02:55]>> Two different women. Okay, so the ex-girlfriend is the mother of the 2-year-old.

[00:02:58]>> Yes. Yes.

[00:02:59]And um He loaned her his van while he was living with me. He didn't speak to me about it. He was being sneaky behind my back, living in my house, going to work, coming um >> Wait, what was he being sneaky about?

[00:03:11]Loaning the mother of his child his van?

[00:03:13]>> Yes. Like he was living in my house, and I felt like, you know, he should have communicated to me what was going on. I felt betrayed. I felt hurt.

[00:03:20]>> Wait, what was going on? That he loaned her the van?

[00:03:23]>> Yeah, that he loaned her >> anything else going on?

[00:03:25]>> That's what I want to know. She said there was something else going on.

[00:03:28]>> How'd you talk to her?

[00:03:29]>> Oh, um she called me.

[00:03:30]>> How'd she call you?

[00:03:32]How'd she get your name and number?

[00:03:33]>> know, cuz he always goes to her house.

[00:03:34]>> Obviously off his phone, honey.

[00:03:36]>> He goes to her house.

[00:03:37]>> Okay. So, >> He sees the kids.

[00:03:39]>> Okay, so she gets your name and number off the phone. What does she say to you?

[00:03:42]>> called me, and um I said, "How you doing?" She said, "Oh, yeah."

[00:03:44]>> "How you doing?" Really?

[00:03:46]>> Yeah, she goes, "Um you're the backup, you know, the backup whatever." And I said, "Well, you're the you're the layaway. Cuz obviously he with you for 10 years You're the leeway. Cuz obviously, he was with you for 10 years, he moved on, and you don't get it. If he's a player, then why are you What's going on? So, she's So, I told her, "If you want to If you want a car, get call 1-800-TAXICAB."

[00:04:07]And she got really upset. He was working.

[00:04:10]And um he felt violated because we were, you know, going behind his back talking.

[00:04:15]>> And I guess that's the sort of the risk you run, my friend. Go on.

[00:04:19]>> And then that night um he went to her house to get her kid to get his car keys. She scratched him up. He came to my house all sweaty, and I'm like, "Well, if you had no attachments with her, why is she attacking you?" If it was over >> you phrase the phrase he came to my house? He came to his house, right? Cuz he's living with you, right?

[00:04:34]>> Yeah, he came to our house I came in the night.

[00:04:37]>> But like he was scratched up.

[00:04:39]>> Right.

[00:04:39]>> wondering like, "Okay, what's going on?

[00:04:41]If you guys had an argument, why did she physically attack you if there's no sexual thing going on between you two?"

[00:04:47]And um she took my address. She put it on Craigslist. She did a sex ad. Okay.

[00:04:52]>> She did a what?

[00:04:53]>> She basically put up an ad, but just with my name and my number.

[00:04:56]>> Saying what?

[00:04:57]>> Saying, "Oh, you know, come to my house, have sex." I had guys ring my bell. I filed a harassment report against her.

[00:05:03]>> Wait, stop. Did you ever see the ad that you say she put up on Craigslist?

[00:05:07]>> No, but I went to the precinct, and they couldn't find it. It was already pulled off. The precinct told me >> do you know there was such an ad?

[00:05:14]>> Because the Okay, the day that I called the day she called me and I called her the next day, all these guys started calling me saying, "How you doing? You know, I I like how you look."

[00:05:23]>> How do you know she just didn't tell her six good friends, "Hey, call this number cuz she's, you know, messing around with my man." That's what could have happened.

[00:05:29]>> It could have been, but when I went to the detectives, he told me he looked online, he didn't find anything. He said the ad could have been pulled, but he told me >> have or could have never existed.

[00:05:39]>> me I could call have someone call Craigslist because >> I didn't because he told me if I find it >> what you're suing for is 3 months of rent, because eventually he moves in in March and there's March and there's April and then there's May.

[00:05:52]>> Yeah.

[00:05:52]>> Okay.

[00:05:54]Um and then what?

[00:05:55]>> We just had a argument. She continued to call when I went over to his mom and I said, "You know what? Obviously, you guys have something going on. You're lying to me. So, I got to pull away."

[00:06:04]And that's what I did.

[00:06:05]>> you broke up with him.

[00:06:06]>> Yes.

[00:06:07]>> Okay. All right. And now you want him to pay for March, April, and May the rent.

[00:06:12]But, you're also suing for $500 for pain and suffering for causing a miscarriage.

[00:06:15]Tell me about that.

[00:06:16]>> Uh I was I was pregnant. I was >> With whose baby?

[00:06:19]>> With with his.

[00:06:21]>> baby.

[00:06:21]>> Yeah. Um I had a lot of stress. Like I everything was fine. I went back to the hospital 2 or 3 months and I bled in my house for 3 weeks and, you know, >> a miscarriage.

[00:06:33]>> Yeah.

[00:06:33]>> But, you're he you think he should pay you $500 cuz you had a miscarriage. Why?

[00:06:36]>> No, and not because of that. Because we were arguing. He was following me. Like when I was downtown, all of my friends would tell me, "Oh, I see you with this guy." And I see you walking with this guy and like it just my I get anxiety attacks and I was really stressed out and it stressed me out because I still had feelings for him. You know what I mean? Like a lot of things just happened so fast. I think maybe we rushed into a relationship too fast.

[00:06:58]>> think? You think maybe you shouldn't have moved in with a guy you've known 2 months?

[00:07:01]>> No.

[00:07:02]>> I think that I think that's a crazy idea.

[00:07:04]>> It is.

[00:07:05]>> What's going on?

[00:07:06]>> Well, what's going on is this. I think she taking things in wrong way. You understand? Because I was single. I doing my thing.

[00:07:14]You understand? I met her. We started talking, whatever. I got my family. You understand? So, when she started act up and show me the way she is.

[00:07:23]>> When she what?

[00:07:23]>> When she started act up.

[00:07:24]>> Act to act up.

[00:07:25]>> Yeah. She cut my clothes because I went to a restaurant with my baby mother.

[00:07:29]>> Wait, wait. Say that again.

[00:07:30]>> all my clothes.

[00:07:31]>> She cut your clothes up?

[00:07:32]>> YEAH, WITH THE SCISSORS LIKE A MANIAC.

[00:07:33]>> Was this towards the end of the relationship or were you in the relationship?

[00:07:36]>> In the relationship. I was talking to her about, you know, I got things to do on my own. So, I wanted to say >> getting both women.

[00:07:41]>> Well, something like that.

[00:07:42]>> Okay. just say it. Okay, go ahead.

[00:07:44]>> I am in the restaurant. I don't want to use my phone. So, she got my baby mama phone. I don't know she got my baby mama phone.

[00:07:49]>> Apparently, they chat.

[00:07:50]>> They both of them was talking.

[00:07:52]>> Right.

[00:07:52]>> So, WHEN I BE SOMEWHERE >> WELL, STOP LEAVING YOUR PHONE LYING AROUND.

[00:07:55]>> WELL, SHE GOT MY BABY MAMA PHONE.

[00:07:56]>> THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT EACH OTHER?

[00:07:57]>> SHE GOT MY PHONE I SLEEPING. SO, she calling, the other one calling, both of them talking and you know getting me in a mess.

[00:08:03]>> They got Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, THEY GOT YOU IN A MESS?

[00:08:06]>> YES, THEY DID.

[00:08:06]>> NOT YOU WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, NOT YOU GOT YOU IN A MESS?

[00:08:09]>> WELL, I DON'T KNOW.

[00:08:10]>> YEAH.

[00:08:10]>> know what I got to do.

[00:08:11]>> YEAH, WELL, THEY LISTEN, IF THEY BOTH KNOW >> AND WELCOME BACK TO THE PEOPLE'S COURT.

[00:08:17]Harvey Levin here. Would you ever move in with somebody after dating them for only 2 months?

[00:08:22]>> Absolutely.

[00:08:23]>> Really?

[00:08:23]>> Yes.

[00:08:24]>> Why?

[00:08:24]>> I think that you can know a person after a couple of weeks if you get to know them fast.

[00:08:29]>> Oh, you've got to be kidding.

[00:08:30]>> No.

[00:08:30]>> I feel like I want to be your father for like 30 seconds and tell you this is a really bad idea.

[00:08:36]>> Absolutely a horrible idea. You really don't know someone at least a year you have to spend with them. Sir?

[00:08:42]>> Well, I'm a Scot, so I'd be very cautious. At least 3 months I would say.

[00:08:47]>> A Scot waits 3 months, huh?

[00:08:49]>> 3 months I think.

[00:08:50]>> I I want to send you over to Dr. Phil right now. I do. I mean, this is just don't do this, okay? Going inside the courtroom.

[00:08:56]>> If they BOTH KNOW that you are not exclusive and you're not lying either one of them, then that's their problem. But, if both of them think that you're only seeing them and you're lying to both of them, then that's on you.

[00:09:09]>> That's a lie because I tell her that I have a family and a daughter. I got to be there for my daughters.

[00:09:13]>> Wait, wait, sweetheart, BEING THERE FOR YOUR DAUGHTER DOESN'T INCLUDE SERVICING HER MOTHER.

[00:09:17]>> WELL, she know everything. I said she don't lie to my daughter. She don't want me to go in there and drink.

[00:09:21]>> I'm not saying he can't service HER MOTHER. HE CAN BE IN A RELATIONSHIP with whoever he wants. I just I'm I'm just asking whether you were honest about it or not.

[00:09:28]>> I was honest to her because she know I have a daughter. I have to go check my daughters.

[00:09:32]>> What do you Do you think checking your daughter has anything to do with having a relationship with your daughter's mother? That's two different things.

[00:09:38]>> No, she That's what she think. So >> Well, apparently that's what she did.

[00:09:41]>> I don't want to tell my phone that day.

[00:09:42]She go and cut all my clothes, bring it to my mother house, and drop us out of my building. And call me at 6:00 like, "Oh, your clothes is outside." I'LL BE LIKE, "YO, what the hell?" Do you know?

[00:09:50]AND I GO OUTSIDE AND GOT TO GO GET MY CLOTHES AND MY SNEAK OUT MY DRAWERS AND EVERYTHING CUT.

[00:09:54]>> Were you supposed to be paying half of the rent?

[00:09:56]>> I never have agreement with her like that.

[00:09:58]>> Okay.

[00:09:58]>> Because I don't sign no lease, and she never give me a key for the house.

[00:10:01]>> Okay.

[00:10:01]>> So, why should I pay?

[00:10:02]>> So, were you spending a lot of time there?

[00:10:04]>> Couple of night when she call me.

[00:10:05]>> Okay. Where were you living?

[00:10:07]>> I live in my mother house.

[00:10:09]>> So, you were living at your mother's house and then you would just stay over her house?

[00:10:12]>> in my mother house and I do my thing.

[00:10:13]That's it. I go places I want to go.

[00:10:15]>> you weren't staying there every night, otherwise you wouldn't have the problem.

[00:10:17]You were clearly spending some nights somewhere.

[00:10:19]>> see me. So, I go and see her. What it, you know?

[00:10:21]>> Did you break up with her or did she break up with you?

[00:10:24]>> Well I broke up with her anyway because I see she, you know, cut all my clothes and start she going to cut me all around.

[00:10:31]You don't understand when I'm not there what she going to do to me.

[00:10:33]>> I understand.

[00:10:34]>> I had to protect myself. What she going to do to me when I'm not there?

[00:10:37]>> What did you say?

[00:10:37]>> I had to sleep with one EYE OPEN. NO, THAT'S ALL. I JUST I DON'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED. SO, she going to have her stuff going to my business. That's all I say.

[00:10:43]>> But, who's I Who broke up?

[00:10:44]>> Huh?

[00:10:45]>> Who broke up?

[00:10:46]>> I don't know. I was talking to her, but she showed me the way she is. So, I just want to be bothered.

[00:10:50]>> So, did you say to her What did you just never call her again? You just disappeared?

[00:10:53]>> Yes, I just left. That's it. She damaged my car. She damaged my work paper. Okay.

[00:10:57]>> Your car? She damaged your car?

[00:10:58]>> I got a lot of ticket because she damaged the registration and the and the insurance of my car. I can't put in the window.

[00:11:03]>> that up?

[00:11:03]>> Yeah.

[00:11:04]>> Did you cut up his stuff?

[00:11:06]>> I ripped up his car registration. That's it.

[00:11:08]>> Did you cut up his clothes or not?

[00:11:09]>> to go to the news for $300 for that.

[00:11:11]Then I just get it, you know, the struggle to go get it. And she going to damage it.

[00:11:14]>> up his clothes?

[00:11:14]>> No.

[00:11:15]>> You didn't cut up his clothes?

[00:11:16]>> NO.

[00:11:16]>> DON'T LIE.

[00:11:19]>> A LIAR, YO. I SWEAR TO GOD.

[00:11:24]YOU DIDN'T CUT UP HIS CLOTHES? NO, I didn't not. If I did, why didn't he take me to court? 9 months later he come out.

[00:11:28]>> he was. He had a counter claim against you for it, and then he said, "Ah, the heck with it." And he dropped the sky.

[00:11:32]>> no, I didn't.

[00:11:33]>> You know, go your business.

[00:11:34]>> All right, Mr. Elliot. Here Here's my problem, okay? My problem is that I can't just have a woman scorned, angry, and then saying I want revenge.

[00:11:41]According to him, I'm living with my mother. I I'm I got my thing going on.

[00:11:44]I'm a single man, Judge. I got to do what I got to do. And so, he is not living with you. You say he is living with you. You've got the uphill battle.

[00:11:51]You're the plaintiff in the case. You've got to prove to me that he agreed at one point to pay half the month's rent, and not that you got a brand new shiny new boyfriend, and you like him, and so you're letting him sleep over a lot.

[00:12:02]Okay, no, we're done.

[00:12:03]>> Okay.

[00:12:04]>> Okay. Here's I told you the problem you have. The problem you have is that you have no proof. You're the one who has to prove it, and I find that you're unable to prove it, and I find in favor of the defendant. Next time, be a lot more careful about who you pick, okay?

[00:12:15]>> All right, just sit right there.

[00:12:18]All right, so the plaintiff could not prove her case, but come on in here.

[00:12:21]Stand right next to me here, and tell me, you totally still have feelings for this guy.

[00:12:25]>> No, he's just funny. I'm just laughing cuz he's funny.

[00:12:28]>> No, I don't have feelings for him.

[00:12:29]>> Really?

[00:12:30]>> Yeah.

[00:12:31]I'm seeing somebody else.

[00:12:32]>> him back just like that?

[00:12:33]>> No.

[00:12:35]No.

[00:12:35]>> Convince Convince us.

[00:12:37]>> That's what the people think, that I have feelings for him. He's just funny.

[00:12:40]That's it.

[00:12:40]>> like it.

[00:12:41]>> No, I don't >> Well, he had a You think he had a good thing going with you, right?

[00:12:44]>> Well, I thought I mean, he he didn't have to lie. I could have dated whoever I was going to date, and he could have dated whatever if he would have just been honest from the beginning.

[00:12:50]>> So, you're going to tell >> sneaky.

[00:12:51]>> You're going to tell us that you're you're done with him?

[00:12:53]>> I'm finished.

[00:12:54]>> Okay. Okay. All right, you just head right down this way, all right. All right, so you come on in here. Step right over here. Tell me what's what's your feeling on the outcome of this case here.

[00:13:01]>> Well, >> Step up a little bit this way, yeah.

[00:13:03]>> I don't think why she got to come over here and prove me like I play with her head. You know what I'm saying?

[00:13:09]It's all good. She got to go her business.

[00:13:11]>> you were honest with her all all the way through? You didn't use her? You didn't use her?

[00:13:14]>> No, I did not. So, why should I pay some rent if >> Well, what did What did you like so much about her? When things were going good, what did you have going?

[00:13:20]>> good. It was good.

[00:13:21]>> so good?

[00:13:21]>> I mean, the way she is in that moment when she, you know, she okay. But when she showed me her psycho ways, I can't deal with it. I got to go.

[00:13:30]>> Mhm.

[00:13:30]>> That's it. I can't deal with her.

[00:13:32]>> has feelings for you?

[00:13:32]>> Well, she can She can got anything that she want, but I don't want to deal with her.

[00:13:36]>> Harvey, You know, you should know revenge is obvious to absolutely everyone except the person feeling it.

[00:13:42]And I'm telling you, if you harbor it, it will get you in a whole lot of trouble. And that will do it for this case. Litigants for the next case are on their way into the courtroom right now.