Two ladies who say they had been raped and strangled by the controversial social media influencer, Andrew Tate, have spoken to the BBC about their experiences.
One other lady has alleged, for the primary time, she was raped by Mr Tate’s youthful brother, Tristan – additionally an influencer with thousands and thousands of followers.
The Tate brothers, aged 37 and 36, at the moment face expenses in Romania of human trafficking and forming an organised group to sexually exploit ladies. Andrew Tate can also be charged with rape.
If discovered responsible, the 2 males might be jailed for greater than 10 years. They strongly deny the costs towards them.
Warning: Comprises distressing content material and descriptions of sexual violence
Andrew Tate, is at the moment beneath home arrest in Romania. Along with the costs he already faces, prosecutors are considering new allegations against him, together with having intercourse with a minor and trafficking underage individuals. Each brothers are additionally being investigated for trafficking 34 extra ladies.
Now, two British ladies not concerned with the Romanian case towards the Tate brothers, have given detailed first-hand accounts to the BBC, towards Andrew Tate, of alleged rape and sexual violence. The allegations date again at the very least 10 years, to when Mr Tate was residing in Luton.
One other British lady has made a brand new allegation of rape towards Tristan Tate, saying he put his put his arms round her throat as he did so.
Anna (not her actual title) instructed us she went out with Andrew Tate in Luton in 2013. After a couple of dates, she says she went again to his home.
“He began kissing me… and he simply appeared up on the ceiling and mentioned, ‘I’m simply debating whether or not I ought to rape you or not. Out of the blue he simply grabbed me by the throat, smashed me to the again of the mattress, strangling me extraordinarily onerous.”
Anna says he then raped her.
She says after the assault, Mr Tate despatched her disturbing textual content messages and voice notes about rape and sexual violence.
“Am I a foul individual? As a result of the extra you didn’t prefer it, the extra I loved it,” he mentioned in a voice be aware.
In a textual content he wrote: “I really like raping you.”
Anna says he additionally tried to move the strangulation episode off as a joke: “Are you critically so offended I strangled you a bit bit?”
When the BBC requested him concerning the messages, Mr Tate declined to remark.
In 2014, Anna instructed Bedfordshire Police concerning the alleged assault. Two different ladies made comparable allegations, and a police investigation began.
In 2019, a file was despatched to the Crown Prosecution Service, but it surely was determined there was not sufficient proof to carry expenses.
One other lady, who we’re calling Sienna, describes an analogous story.
She says she first met Andrew Tate a decade in the past in Luton: “We acquired on rather well and we had a couple of drinks.”
She says that they had what she describes as “a typical one-night stand”.
A couple of months later, Sienna says she met Mr Tate once more.
She claims that on this event he attacked her.
“We went to my bed room… and we began having intercourse,” she says. “That was when he put his arms round my throat.”
Sienna says she struggled for air, after which misplaced consciousness. When she got here to, she says he was nonetheless having intercourse together with her.
“I used to be completely terrified,” she says. “I simply keep in mind gasping for air… It was rape.”
Within the morning, she says she had a bloodshot eye.
“One of many whites of my eyes had simply gone utterly purple – apparently it is fairly widespread in home abuse circumstances the place there’s been strangulation.”
A buddy of Sienna has confirmed to the BBC that she instructed him concerning the incident on the time. He additionally says he noticed her eye harm.
Sienna didn’t go to the police and says she regrets it.
BBC Panorama is conscious of a complete of 5 ladies within the UK who say they had been strangled by Mr Tate throughout intercourse.
Once we interviewed him in June final yr, he denied ever having strangled or having had intercourse with a lady with out her consent.
“I do know I’ve by no means harm anyone. It isn’t in my nature to harm folks,” he mentioned.
Within the second half of the final decade, Andrew Tate started his rise to on-line fame.
The self-proclaimed misogynist’s movies on YouTube and TikTok, and posts on Twitter, gained him thousands and thousands of followers and a worldwide profile.
He preached a message aimed toward boys and younger males that girls ought to be dominated.
In a single video, he mentioned ladies had been “intrinsically lazy” and added: “There’s no method you may be rooted in actuality and never be sexist.”
Panorama – Andrew Tate: accused
Oana Marocico returns to her dwelling nation to analyze Andrew and Tristan Tate’s Romanian webcam enterprise and speaks to ladies who declare they’ve been abused by the brothers.
Watch on Monday 9 September on BBC One at 20:00 BST (20:30 in Wales) or on BBC iPlayer (UK only) from 20:00 BST
Mr Tate has been singled out by authorities within the UK for the effect he has had in spreading misogyny online.
His movies additionally confirmed off the high-rolling life-style he claimed to steer in Romania.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are thought to have moved to the nation round 2016.
That they had been operating a webcamming enterprise in Luton – the place ladies chat and strip on-line for cash.
Romania has one of many largest webcam industries on the earth, with over half 1,000,000 staff within the sector. The brothers’ transfer there apparently noticed the enterprise taking off.
At one level, Andrew Tate claimed he was making £400,000 monthly from webcamming and that “75 ladies labored for him on the peak of all of it”.
Nevertheless, when he spoke to the BBC final yr, he downplayed these boasts, claiming that they had been exaggerations and lies.
The grownup leisure enterprise is central to the criminal case brought against them in Romania.
Prosecutors allege the brothers had been trafficking ladies into the nation – in different phrases, recruiting them, arranging their transport and offering lodging in Bucharest for the aim of exploitation. Two of the ladies named within the case file had been delivered to Romania from the UK.
One other British lady, not concerned in any of the authorized proceedings, instructed Panorama about her expertise of working for the Tates. It’s the first time she has spoken publicly.
Daisy (not her actual title) says that in 2017 she had been relationship Tristan Tate within the UK, when he inspired her to work for the brothers’ webcam enterprise in Bucharest. We have now seen proof that Tristan booked her flight to Bucharest.
Daisy went of her personal accord, figuring out and agreeing to be concerned within the webcamming enterprise. She describes a controlling atmosphere the place she and different webcammers lived and labored collectively.
“The ladies had their very own rooms, but it surely wasn’t their private house. All the pieces was Tristan’s and Andrew’s, the bedrooms that the women labored in had been additionally the bedrooms that the brothers would sleep in.”
There have been strict guidelines for all the ladies, says Daisy with nearly each facet of their lives monitored.
This description is echoed by a Romanian webcam mannequin, who has additionally spoken to us.
“Raluca” says she was on the Tates’ books in 2021. She claims that “management and manipulation” performed a main position of their enterprise mannequin.
A lot of the fashions working for the Tates “had been relationship them”, in keeping with Raluca. She provides that a few of them had been ladies introduced over from the UK.
The Romanian prosecutors say they’ve statements from three ladies who describe feeling “managed” by the brothers. Within the case file, a number of the ladies say they weren’t allowed to go away the home “on their very own”.
When Andrew Tate spoke to the BBC final yr, he denied such allegations and claimed the ladies labored for themselves. He mentioned that his position was merely to “assist them discover a cameraman”.
A couple of days after arriving in Romania, Daisy says she broke up with Tristan Tate, however she claims it didn’t cease him attempting to have intercourse together with her.
“I instructed him, ‘no’ 10 to fifteen instances that I didn’t wish to.”
He put his arms round her throat and raped her, she says.
Daisy has not reported her allegation to police.
The BBC has spoken to one in every of her mates who says that after Daisy returned to the UK she was upset and instructed him that Tristan Tate had been forceful together with her sexually.
We requested Tristan Tate about all of the allegations towards him – he didn’t remark.
The Tates’ authorized troubles have deepened this yr.
In addition to the present expenses in Romania, and the brand new investigation introduced final month, they face numerous authorized threats elsewhere.
Within the UK, Bedfordshire Police have begun extradition proceedings against both brothers on allegations of rape and human trafficking, relationship again to 2012-2015. None of those are linked to the ladies we spoke to.
And in a civil case introduced by Devon and Cornwall Police, a Justice of the Peace is predicted to rule subsequent month on whether or not the Tates owe millions in unpaid tax on their online businesses.
Sienna and Anna are actually suing Andrew Tate, and their case is because of be heard within the Excessive Court docket in London. Together with two different ladies, they accuse him of rape and sexual assault. He intends to contest the claims.
We requested Mr Tate about all the most recent allegations – he has declined to remark.
Final yr he instructed us: “I stay up for the reality popping out. I stay up for the reality being blasted all around the BBC that Andrew Tate was discovered not responsible as a result of I’ve by no means completed something flawed.”
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