Prosecutors charged former kickboxing star and right-wing personality Andrew Tate, 36, with intimidating and tricking six women into “transforming them into slaves.”
Bucharest judicial officials released a 61-page document covering a December 30, 2022 hearing, a day after Tate and his 34-year-old brother Tristan were arrested on human trafficking and rape charges in Romania, reported Reuters.
The document reportedly contained dozens of WhatsApp messages Tate sent to at least one of the women involved in the human smuggling operation, offering her love and a new life in exchange for her loyalty.
Andrew Tate, center, and his brother Tristan, leave after appearing in the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, on January 10, 2023.
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“You must understand that once you are mine, you will be mine forever,” he said on February 4, 2022, in an attempt to get the woman to join him in Romania. The text included in the Romanian prosecutors’ document was translated by Reuters from Romanian into English.
“Nothing bad will happen,” he apparently wrote on February 9. “But you have to be on my side.”
The following month, Tate allegedly raped the woman twice and forced her to join his alleged human trafficking scheme that involved making pornography for the OnlyFans online platform.
In this still taken from video posted by Observator Antena 1, social media personality Andrew Tate is taken away by police in the Ilfov area, north of Bucharest, Romania, on December 29, 2022.
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The Tate brothers’ lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, has not commented on the release of the document. According to court documents, he reportedly claimed that the women involved in the operation were not mistreated and “lived off the famous Tates.”
“They were happy and no one was forcing them to do these things,” he said, according to Reuters.
Vidineac also accused one of the alleged victims of lying about the rape allegations, saying that she and Tate had sex and claiming it was consensual.
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers out of the Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate headquarters in Bucharest after being detained for 24 hours in Bucharest, Romania, on December 29, 2022.
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Two of the six women, identified as Beatrice and Iasmina, reportedly told a Romanian television channel last month that they were not victims and suggested that the Tates were innocent.
The other four women have not commented publicly on the charges.
The Tate brothers remain in police custody.
