EPATwo girls who say they have been raped and strangled by the controversial social media influencer, Andrew Tate, have spoken to the BBC about their experiences.
One other girl has alleged, for the primary time, she was raped by Mr Tate’s youthful brother, Tristan – additionally an influencer with tens of millions of followers.
The Tate brothers, aged 37 and 36, at present face prices in Romania of human trafficking and forming an organised group to sexually exploit girls. Andrew Tate can also be charged with rape.
If discovered responsible, the 2 males may very well be jailed for greater than 10 years. They strongly deny the costs in opposition to them.
Warning: Accommodates distressing content material and descriptions of sexual violence
Andrew Tate, is at present beneath home arrest in Romania. Along with the costs he already faces, prosecutors are contemplating new allegations in opposition to him, together with having intercourse with a minor and trafficking underage individuals. Each brothers are additionally being investigated for trafficking 34 extra girls.
Now, two British girls not concerned with the Romanian case in opposition to the Tate brothers, have given detailed first-hand accounts to the BBC, in opposition to Andrew Tate, of alleged rape and sexual violence. The allegations date again a minimum of 10 years, to when Mr Tate was residing in Luton.
One other British girl has made a brand new allegation of rape in opposition to Tristan Tate, saying he put his put his fingers round her throat as he did so.
Anna (not her actual title) advised us she went out with Andrew Tate in Luton in 2013. After just a few dates, she says she went again to his home.
“He started kissing me… and he just looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘I’m just debating whether I should rape you or not. Out of the blue he just grabbed me by the throat, smashed me to the back of the bed, strangling me extremely hard.”
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 bad person? Because the more you didn’t like it, the more I enjoyed it,” he mentioned in a voice observe.
In a textual content he wrote: “I love raping you.”
Anna says he additionally tried to go the strangulation episode off as a joke: “Are you seriously so offended I strangled you a little bit?”
When the BBC requested him in regards to the messages, Mr Tate declined to remark.
In 2014, Anna advised Bedfordshire Police in regards to the alleged assault. Two different girls 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 deliver prices.
One other girl, who we’re calling Sienna, describes the same story.
She says she first met Andrew Tate a decade in the past in Luton: “We got on really well and we had a few drinks.”
She says they’d what she describes as “a standard one-night stand”.
Just a few months later, Sienna says she met Mr Tate once more.
She claims that on this event he attacked her.
“We went to my bedroom… and we started having sex,” she says. “That was when he put his hands around 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 was absolutely terrified,” she says. “I just remember gasping for air… It was rape.”
Within the morning, she says she had a bloodshot eye.
“One of the whites of my eyes had just gone completely red – apparently it’s quite common in domestic abuse cases where there’s been strangulation.”
A good friend of Sienna has confirmed to the BBC that she advised him in regards to the incident on the time. He additionally says he noticed her eye damage.
Sienna didn’t go to the police and says she regrets it.
BBC Panorama is conscious of a complete of 5 girls within the UK who say they have been strangled by Mr Tate throughout intercourse.
Once we interviewed him in June final 12 months, he denied ever having strangled or having had intercourse with a girl with out her consent.
“I know I’ve never hurt anybody. It’s not in my nature to hurt people,” 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 tens of millions of followers and a worldwide profile.
He preached a message aimed toward boys and younger males that ladies needs to be dominated.
In a single video, he mentioned girls have been “intrinsically lazy” and added: “There’s no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist.”
Panorama – Andrew Tate: accused
Oana Marocico returns to her house nation to research Andrew and Tristan Tate’s Romanian webcam enterprise and speaks to girls 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 solely) from 20:00 BST
Mr Tate has been singled out by authorities within the UK for the impact he has had in spreading misogyny on-line.
His movies additionally confirmed off the high-rolling way of life he claimed to guide in Romania.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are thought to have moved to the nation round 2016.
They’d been working a webcamming enterprise in Luton – the place girls chat and strip on-line for cash.
Romania has one of many largest webcam industries on the earth, with over half one million workers within the sector. The brothers’ transfer there apparently noticed the enterprise taking off.
At one level, Andrew Tate claimed he was making £400,000 per thirty days from webcamming and that “75 women worked for him at the peak of it all”.
Nevertheless, when he spoke to the BBC final 12 months, he downplayed these boasts, claiming they’d been exaggerations and lies.
Getty PhotographsThe grownup leisure enterprise is central to the prison case introduced in opposition to them in Romania.
Prosecutors allege the brothers have been trafficking girls 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 have been dropped at Romania from the UK.
One other British girl, not concerned in any of the authorized proceedings, advised 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’ve got seen proof that Tristan booked her flight to Bucharest.
Daisy went of her personal accord, realizing and agreeing to be concerned within the webcamming enterprise. She describes a controlling surroundings the place she and different webcammers lived and labored collectively.
“The girls had their own rooms, but it wasn’t their personal space. Everything was Tristan’s and Andrew’s, the bedrooms that the girls worked in were also the bedrooms that the brothers would sleep in.”
There have been strict guidelines for all the ladies, says Daisy with virtually 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 “control and manipulation” performed a major function of their enterprise mannequin.
Many of the fashions working for the Tates “were dating them”, in accordance with Raluca. She provides that a few of them have been girls introduced over from the UK.
The Romanian prosecutors say they’ve statements from three girls who describe feeling “controlled” by the brothers. Within the case file, a few of the girls say they weren’t allowed to depart the home “on their own”.
When Andrew Tate spoke to the BBC final 12 months, he denied such allegations and claimed the ladies labored for themselves. He mentioned that his function was merely to “help them find a cameraman”.
A few days after arriving in Romania, Daisy says she broke up with Tristan Tate, but she claims it did not stop him trying to have sex with her.
“I told him, ‘no’ 10 to 15 times that I didn’t want to.”
He put his hands around her throat and raped her, she says.
Daisy has not reported her allegation to police.
The BBC has spoken to one of her friends who says that after Daisy returned to the UK she was upset and told him that Tristan Tate had been forceful with her sexually.
We asked Tristan Tate about all the allegations against him – he did not comment.
EPAThe Tates’ legal troubles have deepened this year.
As well as the existing charges in Romania, and the new investigation announced last month, they face a number of legal threats elsewhere.
In the UK, Bedfordshire Police have begun extradition proceedings against both brothers on allegations of rape and human trafficking, dating back to 2012-2015. None of these are connected to the women we spoke to.
And in a civil case brought by Devon and Cornwall Police, a magistrate is expected to rule next month on whether the Tates owe millions in unpaid tax on their online businesses.
Sienna and Anna are now suing Andrew Tate, and their case is due to be heard in the High Court in London. Along with two other women, they accuse him of rape and sexual assault. He intends to contest the claims.
We asked Mr Tate about all the latest allegations – he has declined to comment.
Last year he told us: “I look forward to the truth coming out. I look forward to the truth being blasted all over the BBC that Andrew Tate was found not guilty because I’ve never done anything wrong.”
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