Andrew Tate outside court in Romania. (Daniel Mihailescu/Getty Images)
- Andrew Tate sent a rape accuser a series of text messages endorsing the rape, according to Vice News.
- They were part of the evidence that UK police collected while investigating Tate between 2015 and 2019.
- Ultimately, the Crown Protection Service did not bring rape charges against Tate in 2019.
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Vice World News published a series of messages on Wednesday that appear to show misogynistic influencer and former kickboxer Andrew Tate endorsing a sexual assault on a woman who accused him.
The text and voice messages published by the outlet come a day after Tate failed to secure his release from a Romanian jail amid a sex trafficking investigation into him and his brother.
According to Vice reports, Tate sent a woman who accused him of rape in 2013 threatening messages after the incident, including some in which he said he “enjoyed it.”
“I love raping you,” Tate said in one of the texts shared with Vice. “Monsters are monsters. When you’re under my control, I do as I please.”
Tate was arrested by UK police in 2015 after two women came forward with allegations that he had sexually assaulted them, according to Vice. A third woman who spoke to the outlet also told police that Tate sexually assaulted her in 2014, six months after she said the 2013 incident occurred, according to Vice.
The Crown Prosecution Service did not press charges in either case. The third accuser shared text messages with Vice that she told the publication Tate sent her after he raped her, which she also said she shared with police. The messages have not been independently authenticated by Insider.
The woman, who used the alias Amelia, told Vice that she and Tate had known each other since 2009 and began dating in 2013. The first night she went to Tate’s apartment, she told the publication that a flip had changed after that she told him she didn’t want to have sex that night.
“I got up, looked at him and said, ‘What’s up?'” the woman told Vice. “This guy literally stood there and said, ‘I’m just debating whether or not I should rape you.'”
She told that outlet that Tate strangled and raped her after that moment, calling her his property and asking “who do you belong to?”
In some of her videos, Tate has made similar comments, calling women the property of men and has advocated violence against women in the context of infidelity.
Six months later, the woman had filed a police report and was contacted in 2015 by Hertfordshire Police as they searched for evidence on Tate. At that point, she handed over her phone that included text messages with Tate after the incident, according to Vice.
Hertfordshire Police did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
The voice notes provided by Tate’s wife also struck a macabre tenor.
“Am I a bad person… because the more you didn’t like it, the more I enjoyed it,” Tate can be heard saying in one of the voice memos, according to Vice, adding that he wanted to “pin you down and make you do things you don’t want to do.” you like them”.
The messages painted a bleak picture of the night that Amelia described to Vice.
“You didn’t like that I was thinking that I can do whatever I want with you,” Tate said in a voice note provided to the outlet. “That’s what it is. I’m the smartest person on this fucking planet.”
She told Vice that after Tate sent her a video of him breaking a baseball bat on his shin, she never saw him in person again. She also sent a voice note with the video, according to Vice.
“I am one of the most dangerous men on this planet,” Tate said in the video, according to Vice. “Sometimes you forget exactly how lucky you were to get fucked.”
Ultimately, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to bring charges against Tate in 2019, previously telling Insider that it did not prosecute Tate because it did not see “a realistic prospect of a conviction.”
Tate’s attorney did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Andrew Tate has monetized his views through his “Hustler University” paid video subscription program, where he has amassed tens of millions of dollars and a legion of mostly male followers, according to Buzzfeed News.
Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women were arrested in December on charges related to a human trafficking investigation and the rape in Romania of the four. They are charged with exploiting women in the country to produce pornography and also face a separate rape charge.
After losing an appeal on Tuesday, the four defendants will remain in custody until at least the end of January.
