2015 - Andrew Tate Suspected of Rape & Arrested, Not Charged
2016, June
2022, April 11 - Raided in Romania!
2022, December 29 - Charged with Forming an Organized Crime Group, with Human Trafficking & Possibly Charged with Rape, Detained, Some Sources Claim Andrew was Arrested
Tate’s Pizzagate
Oh. Derp.
2023, January - New Developments
2023, February 2 - Rape Allegations
2023, February 8 - Woman Claims Andrew Tate Pressures Women to be ‘Branded’ with a Tattoo of His Name
2023, March 31 - Released & Placed Under House Arrest
2023, April 13 - Three British Women Claim Andrew Tate Raped Them
2023, June 7 - Now Four Women Claim Andrew Tate Raped Them
2023, June 13 - Officials Investigate the 4 for Human Trafficking
2023, June 14 - Andrew Tate Gets Served
2023, June 20 - Andrew Tate Indicted, Charged with Rape, Trafficking Women, Trafficking a Minor, Having Sex with a Minor & Forming an Organized Criminal Group Related to the Abuse of Women
A MINOR!
2023, August 4 - Tate Brothers Released From House Arrest & Ordered to Stay in Romania
2023, September 24 - Alleged Red Eyes, Choking & a “I love raping you” Text
2023, November 20 - Pierce Morgan Interviews Andrew Tate
2024, March 11 - Tate Brothers can be Extradited from Romania to the UK
2024, May 8 - Andrew Tate Accused of Infecting Alleged Victims With STDs
2024, July 8 - Tax Evasion?
2024, August 22 - Allegations of Trafficking Minors, Having Sex with Then & Having Children with Them?
2024, August 31 - Prosecutors’ Appeal Denied, Tate Brothers Have Children & Close Relationships With Some of Their Victims
2024, September 9 - British Women Accusing & Suing the Tate Brothers of Rape
2024, December 18 - Court Rules That the Tate Brothers Must Pay £2m in Back Taxes
2024, December 19 - The Earlier Tate Case is Blocked from Going to Trial
2025, January 10 - Andrew Tate Misrepresented on Benny Johnson Livestream & Trump’s Attorney Gushes Over Andrew Tate Like a Groupie
2025, January 14 - House Arrest Lifted
2025, February 10 - American Woman Sues & is Sued by the Tate Brothers
2025, February 12 - Money Laundering Investigations
2025, February - Trump Admin Pressured Romanian Authorities to Lift Travel Restrictions on the Tate Brothers? Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
2025, February 27 - Tate Brothers Allowed to Leave Romania for the USA
2025, February 28 - Shameful Smearing
2025, March 4 - Florida Launches Criminal Investigation Into the Tate Brothers
2025, March 11 - The Tates Tour the USA, Meet With Kanye & Andrew Tate is Allegedly Accused of Sexually Assaulting Influencer Bri Stern in Hollywood
2025, March 21 - The Tates Return to Romania
2025, April - The Tate brothers Sue X Users
2025, April 15 - Andrew Tate has a Hearing in London
2025, May 28 - Tate Brothers Charged with Rape, Actual Bodily Harm, Human Trafficking & More in the UK
A Question of Murder - Andrew Tate’s ‘Girlfriend’ Says, “I’ve actually seen some guys ‘accidentally’ killed their girlfriends during sex, choking them that hard.”
among the most energetic and lucky Men in the world
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access knowledge that will spark your genius and compel you to work your hardest to keep up.
In a world where men are told they are inferior (see toxic masculinity for example) and wherein white men are told they are defective (see toxic whiteness, for example), Tate’s website offers
Tristan Tate over Andrew Tate’s shoulder. Image cropped from a paused video from a BBC report, captioned “Andrew Tate: Police release raid video after influencer arrested”
Andrew and Tristan are the left’s fault. If you tell young men, especially young hetero men, more especially hetero men who don’t cross dress, even more especially hetero men who don’t cross dress and who are not ‘POC’ that they are toxic the least wise among them will gravitate towards those who tell them that it is good to be toxic, like Andrew and Tristan Tate.
We at the Culture War Encyclopedia do not claim that mainstream media reports about him are accurate. They are the mainstream media, after all, meaning that they are the propaganda machine for those who pay them to say what they say.
Have a few barf bags ready. Gird thyself up now! Strap thee on thine scabbard and sword! Light thee a torch and take heart, for we will delve these chthonic depths until we come to the abyss whereinto which we shall peer. Beware - when you stare too long into the abyss, it stares it stares back into you.
Synopsis
As one can see below, according to various cited sources…
1986 - Andrew Tate born Emory Andrew Tate III in Chicago
1988 - Tristan Tate born in Chicago
2011 - Tristan Tate appears on the British ‘reality’ show Shipwrecked: The Island
2015 - Andrew Tate is arrested under suspicion of rape but not charged
2016 - Andrew Tate appears on Big Brother 17 (UK)
2016 - Andrew Tate removed from Big Brother when a video circulates that appears to show him beating a woman or girl
2017, October 18 - Andrew Tate’s main Twitter account (@Cobratate) makes some tweets and is ‘cancelled’ on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube & TikTok) though he apparently had backup Twitter accounts that remained active for the time being
2021, August - Andrew Tate’s @OfWudan Twitter account, reportedly in violation of Twitter’s rules, is no longer active
2022, January 18 - Andrew Tate’s @MasterfulPo Twitter account, reportedly in violation of Twitter’s rules, is no longer active
2022 - Andrew and Tristan were featured in the ‘reality’ show Kings of the Internet
2022, April 11 - US Embassy in Bucharest, Romania notify police officers in Ilfov, Romania that a 21 year old American citizen, was being held hostage in Voluntari (pun not intended) & it was alleged that they kidnapped 2 women, 1 of whom was the American citizen “who were to be trafficked into the sex market” Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate & 2 others are suspects. They were not charged.
2022, April 11 - Romania’s DIICOT announces that they are expanding their investigation of these people to include human trafficking and rape
2022, April 11 - police obtained two search warrants, searched & found an American woman & a Romanian woman locked up
2022, April 11 - Woman present outside told media that her daughter was the Romanian woman who was locked up inside and that she thinks Andrew Tate planned to sell her
2022, April 11/12 - multiple people interviewed by authorities and prosecutors file rape charges
2022, August - Forbes reports of complaints & condemnations regarding Andrew referring to women as property, explaining how to attack them and force them into sex
2022, August - Andrew Tate removed from Facebook, Instagram, Youtube & TikTok
2022, October 7 - Andrew Tate appears on Pierce Morgan Uncensored and they discuss a video in which Andrew Tate talks about a hypothetical situation in which a woman comes at him with a machete because she caught him cheating, about knocking the machete out of her hand and then beating her
2022, December 28 - Andrew Tate’s main X account reinstated & he has a FAFO day: He Fucks Around with Greta Thunberg and Finds Out that the Romanian authorities would come for him the following day
2022, December 29 - The Tate brothers and 2 others are detained (according to some sources) or arrested (according to some sources), held, charged with forming an organized crime group & with human trafficking & one of them (unnamed at first, later reported as being Andrew Tate) is charged with rape
2023, January - Detention extended to February 27, 2023
2023, February 2 - Rape allegations
2023, February 8 - Woman Claims Andrew Tate Pressures Women to be ‘Branded’ with a Tattoo of His Name
2023, April 13 - Three British women accuse Andrew Tate of raping them
2023, March 31 - Detention expires on this day whereupon they are released and placed under house arrest
2023, June 7 - Four women now claim Andrew Tate raped them
2023, June 13 - Officials Investigate the the Tare brothers and 2 others for Human Trafficking
2023, June 14 - Andrew Tate is served with a legal letter of claim
2023, June 20 - Andrew Tate indicted on charges of human trafficking (of adult women and a minor) & forming an organized criminal group related to the abuse of women
2023, August 4 - Tate brothers are released from his house arrest and ordered to remain in Romania
2023, September 24 - The lawyer for the four British women says that Andrew Tate in addition to the rape allegations, he choked the women until their eyes turned red from the burst blood vessels. He also said Andrew sent one of the women a test saying “I love raping you.”
2023, November 20 - Pierce Morgan
2024, March 11 - It is ruled that the Tate Brothers can be extradited from Romania to the UK
2024, May 8 - Andrew Tate is accused of giving STDs to the women he is accused of abusing
2024, July 8 - Andrew and Tristan are accused of tax serial evasion
2024, August 22 - Allegations of human trafficking of minors arise against Andrew Tate. Apparently one or both of the Tate brothers are alleged to have had children with (some of) these victims
2024, August 31 - Prosecutors’ appeal to restrict Andrew Tate is rejected and Associated Press reports that the Tate brothers have close relationships and children with some of their victims
2024, September 9 - Multiple British women accuse the Tate brothers of rape & two sue Andrew Tate for rape
2024, December 18 - The legal system in the UK rules that the Tate brothers must pay £2m in back taxes
2024, December 19 - The earlier of the two Romanian cases is dropped
2025, January 10 - Andrew Tate appears on a Benny Johnson livestream, is painted as just an outspoken and influential conservative & Trump’s attorney appears & gushes over Andrew Tate like a groupie
2025, January 14 - The Romanian government lifts the house arrest
2025, February 10 - An American woman sues & is sued by the Tate Brothers
2025, February 12 - The Tates, it was reported, were being investigated for money laundering
2025, February - It is reported that the Trump Administration pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the Tate brothers based on alleged unnamed people ‘familiar with the matter’ and in contradiction to statements from the Romanian foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu according to Euronews Romania. When asked on February 27, Trump said he knew nothing about the case
2025, February 27 - The Tate brothers are allowed to leave Romania and travel to the United States
2025, February 28 - Newsweek asks if the Tate brothers will meet with Trump as they are both in Florida and then admits there is no reason to think they would but, rather, reason to think they won’t. The Independent also does some gutter press level reporting.
2025, March 4 - The state of Florida launches a criminal investigation into the Tate brothers
2025, March 11 - While the Tate brothers tour the USA, influencer Bri Stern allegedly filed a complaint against Andrew Tate alleging that he sexually assaulted her in a Hollywood hotel
2025, March 21 - The Tate brothers fly back to Romania as per court order
2025, April - The Tate brothers sue people behind certain X accounts because of what they post about them
2025, April 15 - Andrew Tate has a hearing in London in the civil case in which he is being sued by 4 women
2025, May 28 - In the UK, the Tate Brothers are charged with rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking & more in the UK
In an unverified video, Andrew Tate’s ‘Girlfriend’ says, “I’ve actually seen some guys ‘accidentally’ killedtheir girlfriends during sex, choking them that hard.”
Divisive Propaganda, Rhetoric & Reaction
If/when you read/hear reports and opinions regarding Andrew and/or Tristan including those we include below, it is important to read with a sharp bullshit detector. Also know that emotions dull the point of the mind. For example, below, we will read quotes from mainstream legacy media that will state things like “Andrew Tate can be seen in photos with Nigel Farage.”
This would make some people think something like, “I guess Nigel Farage posed for photos with people, signed autographs and shook hands.”
This would make other people think something like, “Nigel Farage must be a far-right woman-hater if he hangs around with Andrew Tate.”
In reality, such a statement would not necessarily mean either if one actually thinks rationally about it.
A statement like, “Andrew Tate met Donald Trump Jr at Trump Tower” might make some think he went to Trump Tower for some event and met Donald Trump Jr and it might make other people think Andrew Tate is close with Donald Trump himself. Without further context, however, one doesn’t know if either of these are true. If the source makes such statements without further explanation, it comes across as being manipulative and intellectually dishonest. When one sees many sources making similar statements in similar ways with lack of relevant context, when one sees a pattern of leading statements, loaded phrases and weasel words, it is fair to question the sources generating the impressions their rhetoric seems designed to leave.
He stated on Twitter in 2017 that women belong in the home and that rape victims “bear responsibility” for their attack, after which Twitter permanently banned him from the platform.
Tate has grown a following for his advice videos to men, many of them veering into sexist territory. On one YouTube video, Tate described himself as “absolutely a misogynist”. He said: “I’m a realist and when you’re a realist you’re sexist. There’s no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist.”
In a statement to the Guardian, Tate characterized many of his videos as parody, stating he was “playing a comedic character”.
“Internet sensationalism has purported the idea that im [sic] anti women when nothing could be further from the truth,” he said, adding that he has donated to charities benefitting women. “I am genuinely innocent.”
has argued that women are the property of their husbands and should “have kids, sit at home, be quiet and make coffee.”
Also,
He has claimed that he needs authority over the women he dates, saying, “You can’t be responsible for a dog if it doesn’t obey you.” He has said he would attack a woman who accused him of cheating and described himself as “absolutely a misogynist.”
Trump’s Washington hotel, Tate posed for a picture with Brexit advocate Nigel Farage, and sat in a group in the Trump hotel lobby with the likes of Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich
without offering evidence for that or his claim that
Cernovich visited the Tate brothers in Romania later that year, describing them as his “friends” in the description of his podcast.
A spokesperson for White Ribbon, a charity which looks to end male violence against women, has said that Tate’s comments are “extremely misogynistic” and could have “concerning” long-term effects on a younger audience.
As we go on, we will see that Andrew Tate’s own statements actually are overtly derisive of women in general.
Additionally,
Several Rape and Domestic abuse support charities have now called on the platform to remove his TikTok account, including Rape Crisis England and Wales and Women's Aid.
Policy lead at Rape Crisis England and Wales told The Daily Mail, Amelia Handy said: "These videos are a clear example of rape culture, where rape and sexual violence are minimised and survivors are blamed for crimes committed against them."
talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.
“It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch,” he says in one video, acting out how he’d attack a woman if she accused him of cheating. In another, he describes throwing a woman’s things out of the window. In a third, he calls an ex-girlfriend who accused him of hitting her – an allegation he denies – a “dumb hoe”.
There is some question regarding how consistently sincere his statements may be because, as the Guardian reports,
The coordinated effort, involving thousands of members of Tate’s private online academy Hustler’s University and a network of copycat accounts on TikTok, has been described by experts as a “blatant attempt to manipulate the algorithm” and artificially boost his content. In less than three months, the strategy has earned him a huge following online and potentially made him millions of pounds, with 127,000 members now paying the £39 a month to join Hustler’s University community, many of them men and boys from the UK and US.
Yet despite much of the content appearing to break TikTok’s rules, which explicitly ban misogyny and copycat accounts, the platform appears to have done little to limit Tate’s spread or ban the accounts responsible. Instead, it has propelled him into the mainstream – allowing clips of him to proliferate, and actively promoting them to young users.
Part of Tate's social media presence is due to Hustler's University's "affiliate marketing" campaign, according to a report from The Guardian. Hustler's University members earn 48% commission for every person they refer, the publication reports, and Hustler's University actively encourages its users to spread inflammatory Tate content on TikTok and other social media. Polarizing videos get more eyeballs, and more eyeballs means more referrals for Hustler's University "students."
See the section on Hustler’s University for more about that scheme. The Guardian reports also that
Tate has had several Twitter accounts which have already all been suspended as a result of tweets containing homophobic and racial slurs were found on his profile.
Also,
The mixed martial artist has previously said that women “belong in the home”, are a “man’s property”, “can’t drive” and has also expressed that rape survivors must “bear responsibility” for their attacks.
Background
Here is a brief background for the Tate brothers before they became public figures.
Apparently, their father passed on at some point because, at least according to the Romanian source Gândul,
They would have inherited, from their father, a hotel in Thailand, through which they would have amassed a significant fortune, which would amount to millions of euros.
Note that according to hearsay, he worked as a doorman for a bar in Luton, UK in the Summer of 2014. If that is true, it suggests that Andrew was not rich at that time. Let us return to the childhood of the Tate brothers.
Tristan Tate was born July 15, 1988 in Chicago, Illinois according to IMDB. Both Andrew and Tristan were born in Chicago and both have British citizenship according to Newsday.
The BBC reports that Andrew’s full name is Emory Andrew Tate and the IMDB and other sources report that his full name is Emory Andrew Tate III. The Guardian reports that he worked as a television producer in his 20s while training locally to be a kickboxer.
He is named after his father, an American who worked for the US Air Force in Britain, and who was also a chess master. His mother and father met in the UK before moving to America where Tate was raised until his parents divorced.
Following the divorce, Tate moved to Luton, England, with his mother.
Both Tate and his younger brother Tristan said they experienced poverty in England. In interviews, they recalled going to KFC to save other people's leftover chicken and freezing it for future meals.
It should be noted that Tate himself once referred to his motivations for wanting to move to Romania in the first place.
In a since-deleted YouTube video, Tate said a significant reason for his move to Romania was that in Eastern European countries, it's easier to get out of rape charges.
According to reports discussing the video, Tate said "I'm not a rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want. I like being free."
There is a long article by Buzzfeed that makes a lot of claims about the lives of Andrew and Tristan’s parents and about the upbringing of the brothers. We would include the information here but for two reasons. Firstly, it is Buzzfeed we are talking about here and they support very little of what they claim with evidence. It does seem that they derived most of their claims on what they say is a biography of Andrew and Tristan’s father,
Emory Jr. written by Daaim Shabazz, an academic and chess scholar
first became famous in 2011 when he starred on the British reality TV show "Shipwrecked: The Island." Tristan Tate has a net worth of approximately $500 million dollars. He owns multiple companies including a Romania casino franchise, an OnlyFans business, and The Real World which generate more than $10 million dollars in monthly revenue, which he uses to finance his luxurious lifestyle.
At the time of his expulsion from the show, Mr Tate said the video had been edited, calling it "a total lie trying to make me look bad".
He went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should "bear responsibility" for being sexually assaulted.
Mr Tate has been banned from other social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, with TikTok also removing him, saying "misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated".
There is also this video [archive here] video that seems very much like real abuse and a display of an inability to control his violent outbursts.
Below are some screen-captures from the video with captions. In the video, Andrew Tate can be heard berating a woman, telling her to show her bruises to the camera, telling her that she was given those bruises because she deserved it. She then goes into a room, closes the door and locks it, barring Tate from entry. Tate becomes enraged and tells her that she ran from him because she knew that he was going to beat her. Then, right in line with the typical and predictable pattern of abuse like this, Tate tells her that she makes him beat her because she misbehaves.
went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should "bear responsibility" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.
We’ll explore that matter deeper below.
Forbes reported in August of 2022 of growing complaints about Andrew Tate
following dozens of videos and posts that have been condemned by advocacy groups and activists, including YouTube videos in which he refers to women as “property,” explains how to attack women and force them into sex, and describes teenage girls as more attractive than women in their 20s because they can be controlled.
Andrew is a controversial online personality, former professional kickboxer, television personality, actor known for Kings of the Internet (2022) and brother of Tristan Tate. He began offering paid courses and memberships through his website and later rose to fame as an Internet celebrity.
They list his trademarks as
Intense narcissism
as well as
Aviator sunglasses
and
Bald head
They also say that Andrew Tate is a 4 time world champion in kickboxing. The BBC also report that he was a kickboxing world champion four times. With more specificity, the Jerusalem Post reports that it was the International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) world championship that he has won multiple times.
After winding down his kickboxing career, Tate began an online webcamming company in which he claimed that up to 75 women, some of them ex-girlfriends, were working for him. In an interview with the UK's Mirror earlier this year, Tate called the webcam business a "total scam" in which women faked "sob stories" to get men to part with their cash.
is an American-British internet personality, former kickboxer, Andrew Tate's brother, actor and television personality known for Kings of the Internet (2022). He is a 2x IKSA British Kickboxing Champion, entrepreneur, self-made multi-millionaire, and one of the world's most notorious international playboys.
Tristan Tate first became famous online whoever when his big breakthrough moment came in 2022 after his older brother Andrew Tate launched a viral TikTok campaign to promote his new business "Hustler's University." Andrew Tate quickly became the most googled man in the world, and Tristan Tate's popularity absolutely exploded.
Before being banned, his videos racked up billions of views on TikTok and Instagram. His main business venture of late was Hustler's University, an online course for aspiring alpha males that taught lessons on crypto, stock investing and "freelancing."
In our country, the two showed off cars worth hundreds of thousands of euros, and Tristan became a socialite after having a love affair with Bianca Drăgușanu, before she married the underworld don Alex Bodi.
a well-known name back home in Romania . . . before dating Tristan Tate . . .Bianca is a famous journalist and entrepreneur who also went on to have a successful modelling career.
The 42-year-old stylist graduated from the University of Bucharest.
Much of this can be attributed to TikTok, where videos are being shared throughout the platform to the point where he has been viewed over 11.6 billion times.
His sudden ubiquity did not happen organically, the Guardian reported. Paying members of Hustler’s University were directed to bombard social media platforms with his videos, selecting the most controversial to boost engagement in what experts described to the news outlet as manipulation of the algorithm. Among videos that gained traction was one in which he advised his followers to “slap, slap, grab, choke” women in the bedroom and another in which he said he dates 18- and 19-year-olds because it’s easier to leave an “imprint” on them.
Many of the videos that have drawn viewers on TikTok appear to have been posted by Tate’s followers. A TikTok spokesperson told The Post, “Our investigation into this content is ongoing, and we continue to remove violative accounts and videos that promote misogyny and other hateful behavior.”
according to evidence obtained by the Observer, this was a far more methodical and coordinated effort orchestrated by Tate himself.
According to this evidence, thousands of Tate's followers are being instructed to circulate videos of Tate on the platform, specifically using controversial clips to gain the most views and engagement possible, all while manipulating the app's algorithm to be further promoted to the platform's young userbase.
This has been a massive success for him and has seen his popularity and infamy skyrocket.
This, in turn, sees him gain a stronger following among his target demographic: Young men in English-speaking countries that lack direction and feel lost, especially among those already predisposed to anti-feminist and reactionary ideologies.
has become almost impossible to avoid on social media.
She also wrote at that time,
He’s a topic of conversation on every major platform. Major creators have either talked about Tate or had him on their livestreams and podcasts, often in an attempt to counter his hyper-misogynistic stances on women and modern masculinity. Teacher-focused online spaces are discussing how to handle students who have been influenced by him.
Tate, 35, continues to go viral in large part due to his extreme statements: comparing women to property, graphically describing how he would assault a woman for accusing him of cheating, and claiming that men would rather date 18- and 19-year-olds over women in their mid-20s because the former have had sex with fewer men. Since they’re less experienced in dating, men can “make an imprint” on teenagers, Tate has claimed.
In a statement to NBC News, Tate described himself as a “success coach” who plays an “online character.” He added that he makes “many videos praising women,” and that his coaching involves teaching men “to avoid toxic people as a whole.” Tate said that he tells his audience to avoid “low value people,” including “toxic men.”
“It has nothing to do for hate for women,” Tate said. “It's simply about good and bad people. My mother is my hero.”
In August of 2022, Forbes reported, that his posts on TikTok had been viewed over 12 billion times and that he had reached 756,000 subscribers on Youtube. The BBC reported that Andrew
had 4.7 million Instagram followers at the time his account was removed.
On Tuesday night, the porousness of those bans was evident when Mr. Tate posted a video on YouTube called the “Final Message” on a nonofficial account called “The Tate Bible.” It was promoted by popular accounts on Twitter and had more than 700,000 views by Wednesday afternoon.
In the video, Mr. Tate repeatedly described himself as the most famous person in the world and claimed that shortened clips of his videos that had circulated recently lacked context. He said that the videos were made five or six years ago when he was less popular, but that he was still responsible for how the messages were received.
To address this, he said he would stop doing podcast interviews for an indefinite amount of time.
They would have inherited, from their father, a hotel in Thailand, through which they would have amassed a significant fortune, which would amount to millions of euros.
how much money he has is the subject of considerable debate
and
In an interview with US Twitch streamer Adin Ross, Tate himself claimed to be a trillionaire - specifically, the world's first trillionaire.
It should be noted, however, that there are no trillionaires known to exist anywhere in the world. The current richest person in the world, as noted by Forbes and Bloomberg, is business mogul and investor Elon Musk, who is thought to be worth just shy of $250 billion.
According to CelebrityNetWorth, Tate is worth some $20 million. Essential Sports lists him as being worth $30 million. The Bio Overview puts his net worth at a far higher total of $350 million, though others put it at closer to $250 million.
Tate's fortune is derived from a number of sources. The first notable one is his business, run alongside his younger brother Tristan Tate, where scantily-clad women speak to callers at a rate of $4 per minute. This business, which also makes funds from collecting tips and private show fees, has the women claim to have a number of severe financial issues in order to wring more money from customers.
Now, it is estimated that most, if not all, of these supposed financial issues aren't real. In fact, as Tristan Tate himself freely admitted in an interview with the UK newspaper the Mirror, the entire thing is a complete scam - one that he is guilt-free over because, as he put it, "no one cares."
Not only is this a scam, though, but it is also entirely legal, something confirmed to the Mirror by a UK attorney. As such, it has allowed them to collect a considerable amount of money.
But Tate has other business ventures as well, most of them rooted in the idea that he teaches how to get rich and be a successful man.
They also report,
His website is filled with links and advice, offering tips such as how to connect with ambitious and successful men, how to stay in shape and more.
These lessons come with a number of programs and courses, which can be purchased on Tate's website.
But then there is also Hustler's University, a subscription service for $49 that allows people to learn, as Tate puts it, "fields that ANYONE ANYWHERE can do NOW to get rich." These topics range from cryptocurrency, stock analysis, e-commerce and more.
In addition to all of this, Tate also is involved in the casino industry, operating a number of casinos in Romania, where he now resides. This is something that has attracted considerably less attention than other business ventures, though it has proven to be considerably profitable and has likely earned him millions in revenue.
Mr. Tate also offered a subscription for $49.99 per month to a program called Hustler’s University, which he said would provide “high-income skill development.” The program had 127,000 subscribers earlier this month but has since shut down, The Observer reported.
Public Image, Bans & Reinstatements
2017 - Ban
After offending a lot of people on the topics of depression, obesity and more (see below), Andrew Tate’s main Twitter account (@Cobratate) was suspendedon October 18, 2017. Forbesreported that his account was suspended
after he said victims of rape and sexual harassment should “bear responsibility” for assault
People will do anything to absolve responsibilities. IT’S NOT MY FAULT IM POOR/SAD/FAT/STUPID. Yes it is.
and
So people defend depression. They get angry when I say this. Because they need this bullshit to justify their own failures.
As they put it,
Andrew tweeted to his 24,000 followers: ‘Depression isn’t real. You feel sad, you move on. You will always be depressed if your life is depressing. Change it. Thread.
‘There are very few fat lonely man, aged 60. With no money or family or hobbys. Who arnt depressed. – this is not a clinical disease.
‘It is a circumstance which they must change. Most “depressed” people are unhappy with their lives, too lazy to change it. That simple.
‘Then they pretend they caught some disease to absolve all responsibility. ITS NOT MY FAULT IM SAD. Yes it is.
‘People will do anything to absolve responsibilities. ITS NOT MY FAULT IM POOR/SAD/FAT/STUPID. Yes it is.
‘So people defend depression. They get angry when I say this. Because they need this bullshit to justify their own failures.
‘By admitting I’m right, they need to work hard to make themselves happy. To avoid the work – argue with me and pretend depression is a thing [sic].’
The ban has been applauded by advocacy groups, including Hope Not Hate, which argued Tate’s social media presence creates a “dangerous slip road into the far-right,” and the Rape Crisis England and Wales, which told the Daily Mail it is “unacceptable that such a blatant display of misogyny is being given a platform.”
Additionally,
Tate denied accusations he was misogynist in an email to NBC News, but has said in a YouTube video he “doesn’t care” about being labeled a misogynist or about being banned or canceled.
They added Andrew Tate, at that time, remained
on TikTok, where his posts have been viewed more than 12 billion times, as well as YouTube, where he has 756,000 subscribers.
Twitter explicitly bans people with suspended accounts from creating new ones to circumvent those restrictions. When Mr Tate made a new account, however, he was not suspended but instead verified - suggesting that Twitter was completely aware of Mr Tate’s identity when he created the new account and broke the social media site’s rules.
Mr Tate had used three accounts - @OfWudan, @Cobratate, and @MasterfulPo - between 2017 and 2022. All three accounts have been suspended for a “violat[ion of] the Twitter rules”.
The @Cobratate account was active until around October 2017, according to webpage captures by archive site archive.today; the @OfWudan account was active until August 2021, and the @MasterfulPo account was active until 18 January 2022.
They go into more detail about Twitter’s rules regarding this than we have the patience or attention span or room for here.
he was banned from the full gamut of social networks -- Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok -- dealing a painful blow to his Hustler's University online business.
According to NBC News, it was August 19 of that year that Andrew Tate was banned from Instagram and Facebook. They also reported,
A spokesperson for Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, confirmed to NBC News on Friday that the company removed Tate's official accounts from the social media platforms for violating the company's polices on dangerous organizations and individuals. The spokesperson also confirmed that the ban is permanent.
That same day, August 19, 2022, Forbes reported that TikTok told them
it is conducting an investigation into sexist posts—as the former kickboxer and reality TV star’s popularity soars amid widespread condemnation by critics for being homophobic and a “violent misogynist.”
The backlash won Tate work and boosted his profile. He appeared on InfoWars, the podcast of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones; was pictured with far-right YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson and met Donald Trump Jr at Trump Tower, posting on Facebook afterwards: “The tate family support trump FULLY. MAGA!”
Again, we here at the Culture War Encyclopedia do not include the last paragraph and other such statements because we think they are true or that the implications made are valid. We include statements like these because the Culture War Encyclopedia is ultimately about our cultural divide that such rhetoric takes part in. It is, therefore, important to document such divisive rhetoric being passed off as news reports. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
In the UK, meanwhile, he mingled with arch-Brexiter Nigel Farage, Facebook photos show and spoke of ties with the anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson. Tate describes Yaxley-Lennon in a podcast as a “solid guy” with a “good heart” whom he has “hung out with untold times”. In 2019, police were called after Tate showed up at the house of Mike Stuchbery, a journalist who had been critical about him online, days after Yaxley-Lennon did the same thing. The incident caused Stuchbery’s wife to suffer a panic attack and played a role in them leaving the UK for Germany.
Amid the drama offline, online Tate’s content took off. Since January, repackaged videos from interviews with Tate over the years have been attracting millions of views on TikTok. But in recent weeks, this growth has accelerated. In August so far alone, clips tagged with his name have been watched more than a billion times.
The posts do not come from Tate himself, who does not appear to be active on the platform, but from hundreds of accounts, often using his name and photo, run by his followers – members of Hustler’s University. Members, including boys as young as 13, are told they can earn up to £10,000 a month through lessons on crypto investing, drop shipping and by recruiting others to Hustler’s University, earning 48% commission for each person they refer.
To have the best chance of getting people to sign up, they are advised to stoke controversy to improve their chances of going viral.
In one guide, Hustler’s University “students” are told that attracting “comments and controversy” is the key to success: “What you ideally want is a mix of 60-70% fans and 40-30% haters. You want arguments, you want war.”
Many Tate videos appear, at first glance, to be harmless, even funny. In his trademark straight-talking style, he derides men who drink tap water instead of sparkling water and people who own cats. “Real men have dogs,” he says. Other material is presented under a banner of male self-improvement.
But much of it appears to meet the definition of hateful content set out in TikTok’s community guidelines, which state that TikTok is “inclusive and supportive” and bans content that “praises, promotes, glorifies, or supports any hateful ideology”, including misogyny.
TikTok’s terms also explicitly say they ban accounts that “impersonate” someone else, by using their name or picture in a “misleading manner”.
Last week, however, content being promoted to users on the platform appeared to be in flagrant breach of the rules.
2022 - Pierce Morgan Interview
In October of 2022, Andrew Tate appeared on Pierce Morgan Uncensored for a long interview with Pierce. Just a few minutes into the interview, Peirce points out that Andrew had publicly stated that wives are the property of their husband and asks him if he still stands by that view. His answer, spread out over some minutes, amounts to no, but yes. See for yourself.
“There are a lot of clips of you floating around on the internet as you know. One of them has you saying, ‘Bang out the machete. Boom in her face. Grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch!’
In an other, you say, ‘Slap! Slap! Grab! Choke! Shut up bitch! Sex!’
When people see those clips and hear you say those things.”
Andrew interjects,
“They misunderstand them. Agree(d).”
Pierce carries on,
“Well, I don’t think that - it’s all hard to misunderstand it - “
Andrew Tate interjects,
“It is.”
Pierce says,
“You might say that it’s consensual. Other people would say whether that’s consensual or not, that’s a very ugly way to talk about women.”
Andrew responds,
“Completely. Now
Pierce says,
“That’s hitting them with machetes.”
Andrew Tate says, indigently,
“No. Watch the whole video. It’s a girl coming at me with a machete and me saying, here, slap the machete out of her hand, she’s attacking me.”
The video they discussed can be seen below (or here).
Note that in the video, Andrew Tate is talking about a hypothetical situation in which one is knocking a machete out of a woman’s hand as she confronts one for cheating on her. This detail wasn’t mentioned by Pierce of Andrew in that interview. Note, also, that in this hypothetical situation, one is not merely disarming the woman who is upset because one has cheated on her. Rather, one savagely beats her. Pierce just glosses over that in the interview.
It was reported that Andrew Tate’s @Cobratate account was reinstated on November 18, 2022. Virginia Glaze writes for Dexerto,
This comes after Elon Musk reinstated other users on the site following a “free speech” post, saying he’d reinstated Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and the Babylon Bee.
Tate appeared to celebrate his comeback with a post that read, “Mastery is a funny thing. It’s almost as if, on a long enough time scale, losing simply isn’t an option.”
They show the post (archive here) you can see below.
In a viral retort, Thunberg responded, inviting him to “enlighten” her at a fake email address — “smalldickenergy@getalife.com” — and later that day, Tate posted a response video showing him smoking a cigar sitting next to two pizza boxes — which he vowed not to recycle — attacking her climate activism.
According to Forbes, the following day, December 29, 2022, the Romanian authorities came knocking and detained the Tate brothers and 2 other people. See the Legal Trouble section for more on this.
A few days later, this was posted from Greta’s account (archive here).
Pizza Puzzle Pieces?
There is some question regarding the role the pizza featured in the video above may have played in the ability of the authorities to locate him. Moron that - I mean, more on that below in the section headed Legal Troubles.
Since being removed from all those platforms, Tate has moved to Rumble, a video sharing platform similar to YouTube that prides itself on being "immune to cancel culture."
Cousineau said that big tech's banning of Tate could reduce his impact but not erase it, as sites like Rumble provide a refuge for speech deemed hateful on other platforms. "Andrew Tate and others like him are not going to be exposed to millions of new people and get billions of views in these niche spaces, and the cultural impact of their rhetoric is necessarily minimized," Cousineau said.
More Serious Troubles
2015 - Andrew Tate Suspected of Rape & Arrested, Not Charged
Notorious influencer Andrew Tate was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and physical abuse in 2015 while he and his brother were running a webcam sex business out of the UK, VICE World News can reveal.
Also,
Two women told VICE World News they were violently abused – one raped, the other repeatedly strangled – by Andrew Tate, and that UK police and the Crown Prosecution Service mishandled their case, leaving him free to rise to global fame on the back of his unchecked misogyny. Police took four years to pass their investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) – whose job involves assessing whether there is a realistic prospect of conviction – at which point the CPS declined to prosecute.
In a statement issued via his lawyer in Romania, Tate denied assault or rape.
They state that a woman they call “Sally” with whom they spoke, Andrew Tate used a method of
According to one woman VICE World News spoke to, whom we’re calling “Sally,” Tate used a
method of emotional and physical control in his UK webcam business back in 2015
that is similar to the
so-called “loverboy method,” forcing women to perform pornographic content via “physical violence and mental coercion.”
They claim that an other woman they call “Helen” told said,
“I have been very frustrated by the British police and court system for a long time, they could have stopped him from doing the exact same abuse to these women in Romania,”
Furthermore,
While Tate was released under investigation by Hertfordshire Police following the women’s complaints, meaning he was suspected of a criminal offence and a police probe was ongoing, he appeared as a contestant on reality TV show Big Brother in 2016. Producers were informed by police of the ongoing investigation but kept him on the show for five days before removing him. During that time, he was shown playing truth or dare in the hot tub and kissing one of the female contestants.
Channel 5 said at the time that Tate had been removed from the Big Brother house because of “information which came to light.” Press reports linked his ousting from the house to a video that had surfaced of him slapping his ex-girlfriend, and then beating her with a belt – a narrative that Tate himself would later encourage. Public outrage eventually simmered down after Tate released a video of his ex saying it was all part of a consensual kinky game.
But what the public didn’t know, and what VICE World News can now report, is that – contrary to claims at the time – the real reason Tate was removed was due to the sexual assault and physical abuse investigation that had been shared with producers five days prior.
They also reported,
Sally told VICE World News that she was strangled by Tate at least five times, and saw him choke other women on at least 10 occasions, attacking them in sudden outbursts of violence. The attacks allegedly occurred when the women were working for Tate’s webcam sex business in Luton, England, in 2015.
“Me and another girl would wake up in the morning with these, like, red, I can only describe them as freckles around our eyes,” said Sally.
“It was from when he choked me so hard that my blood vessels had literally just burst.”
Around the same time as Sally said she was abused, one of her co-workers, Helen, was allegedly raped by Tate, in a sexual assault that Sally claims to have witnessed. Helen went public with the allegation in a TikTok video in 2022, but said it was quickly taken down by TikTok after being reported by masses of Tate supporters.
The women filed criminal complaints with the UK’s Hertfordshire Police shortly after the abuse allegedly occurred in 2015. But the police investigation was struck by remarkable delays – for which police subsequently apologised to the women – before the case file was finally sent to a lawyer at the CPS four years later, in July, 2019.
The CPS, whose job involves assessing whether there is a realistic prospect of conviction, told VICE World News that they determined the case “did not meet our legal test, and there was no realistic prospect of a conviction” – despite Sally having allegedly been an eyewitness to Helen’s rape.
When VICE World News put these allegations to Tate, he responded via a lawyer to deny that he physically abused Sally and to deny that he raped Helen.
”They wanted money because I fired them,” Tate said via his lawyer from Romanian custody. “The police understood after the investigation that I am innocent and the police found messages from the girls’ phones where they were talking between themselves and planning to lie about me.”
The women told us that Helen received a letter from the CPS informing her that voice notes Helen and Sally exchanged informed the decision not to charge Tate. According to Sally and Helen, they discussed in the voice notes whether they should tell police that Tate gave them alcohol. They decided to do so, they said, because according to them that is what happened. At the time when the women made their complaint against Tate, it was common for police forces in England and Wales to demand that sexual assault survivors hand over their phones so that police could search them for any private messages that could undermine their claims.
Additionally
Sally and Helen say they no longer have these voice notes and VICE World News has not been able to independently review them. Asked about the voice notes specifically, a CPS spokesperson would only say: "There were a number of evidential issues that led us to conclude our legal test was not met."
Out of a lack of objective reporting, they assume that ‘Sally’ and ‘Helen’ are in fact victims who survived victimization. They could refer to them as “alleged survivors” but they don’t. They instead write,
Both survivors, who had been warned by officers of the challenges of securing convictions in rape cases, were nevertheless devastated by the decision, and angered by what they perceive as the police’s mishandling of their case.
Not only did they feel that the authorities had failed to deliver justice for the abuse they’d suffered; they had effectively allowed Tate to carry on his abusive path without consequences. Tate subsequently started a new webcam business in Romania that is now the subject of an organised crime investigation
We will return to that matter in due time. Later, they write,
Tate repeatedly assaulted the women who worked for him, said Sally, choking her on at least five occasions, while she witnessed him do the same to her co-workers at least 10 times. The attacks were in keeping with the dominant, controlling “pimp” persona he cultivated: a poster on the walls of their workplace read: “if there is ever a problem, if there is ever a glitch / Big Tate won’t wait, straight slap a bitch.”
She said these violent outbursts would occur seemingly at random, with no apparent trigger, but occasionally when he accused the women of being late for work.
“Andrew … used to strangle us for literally no reason,” she said.
She recalls one time when he came into a room and said: “‘Which one of you hoes am I going to strangle today?’ I couldn't believe that that was our life, you know? But it just seemed really, really normal for us, even though it wasn't.”
The alleged abuse took other forms as well. “I saw him smack girls with a belt. I witnessed him doing it to one of the girls I was staying with, because she wanted a lie-in… he came upstairs and just started whipping her with a belt.”
On another occasion, she said she witnessed Tate rape her friend Helen. She said she had taken a shower when she came back into the bedroom to find Tate sexually assaulting her friend.
“We went to sleep in the same bed with Andrew, but this time the girl [Helen] had a partner, so she was not interested in Andrew at all. And I had gone to the shower while I came back, and I noticed he was like… I saw him raping her.”
Helen stopped working for Tate shortly after the assault, and, about two weeks later, Sally decided she had had enough too.
“I just wanted to get out of that situation,” Sally said. She recalls Tate threatening to beat her up in a bathroom. “He said, ‘Oh, I don't give a fuck if you call the police, I'm going to beat the shit out of you.’ That's kind of when I knew, you know, I had to go with her.”
That’s also when the women went to the police.
But if they were hoping to see their alleged abuser swiftly brought to justice, they would be sorely disappointed.
2022, April 11 - Raided in Romania
On April 11, 2022, police officers in Ilfov, Romania were notified
by a representative of the Diplomatic Security Office of the US Embassy in Bucharest that there was information that, in a building located on Washington Street, in the city of Voluntari, Emma Aida Gabbey, 21 years old, an American citizen, was being held hostage
An investigation was then commenced by Romania’s DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) according a spokeswoman, Ramona Bolla reports the Washington Post.
The author of the report, Andrei Dumitrescu writes,
Police and prosecutors from Ilfov raided the Pipera villa of brothers Tristan and Emory Andrew Tate
Remember, earlier that it was reported by at least one source (BBC) that Andrew Tate’s real name is Emory Andrew Tate and by at least one other source (IMDB) as Emory Andrew Tate III. At any rate, the report from Romania’s Gândul also stated that the Tate brothers allegedly had
kidnapped two women, one of whom is an American citizen, who were to be trafficked into the sex market.
The Washington Post report also states that the police said that 4 suspects (including the Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate)
organized a group in early 2021, conspiring to commit human trafficking, not just in Romania but also in the United States and Britain.
Who are these 4 suspects? The Washington Postreports
Police said the four suspects organized a group in early 2021, conspiring to commit human trafficking, not just in Romania but also in the United States and Britain. Conviction in Romania on charges of human trafficking can carry penalties of between three and 10 years. For rape, penalties can range between five and 10 years.
As explained by Tristan, the woman was at a party at their home but her boyfriend found out via Instagram. She then claimed to him that she was being held against her will, which Tristan described as "bulls**t" and said "her boyfriend is obviously one of those believe all females. She was a hoe, she wasn't even hot, she was ugly."
Also on April 11, 2022, DIICOT stated that their Central Structure prosecutors extended their investigation to include
the commission of the offenses of human trafficking and rape.
In this case, the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Buftea Court conducted home searches at two properties in Ilfov County, during which items of interest for resolving the case were seized.
The following day, April 12, 2022, Gândul reported that the prosecutors have filed rape charges.
Central Structure interviewed several witnesses during the night of April 11/12, 2022, in order to clarify the factual situation.
The investigations are being continued by the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure, with the support of the Bucharest Organized Crime Brigade (B.C.C.O.)
They state, also, that they guarantee procedural rights and presumption of innocence for individuals under investigation.
According to sources close to the investigation, the Ilfov judicial officers contacted the Diplomatic Security Bureau, and after obtaining additional information, the police officers from Voluntari reported ex officio the commission of a possible crime of illegal deprivation of liberty.
Investigators determined that the victim was in the villa of brothers Tristan and Andrew Tate, British citizens.
The police obtained two search warrants, through the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Buftea Court, from the court (Buftea Court), for deprivation of liberty.
Following the search, investigators discovered that, in addition to the American woman, a Romanian woman was also locked up in the building.
This is a screencap of a video embedded in the report. Though she speaks in Romanian, as does a man speaking with her, and though we do not understand what is being conveyed, she seems to be the mother mentioned in the report.
The article continues,
Former British fighter, Tristan Tate settled in Romania with his brother, and the two bought a villa in Pipera.
They would have inherited, from their father, a hotel in Thailand, through which they would have amassed a significant fortune, which would amount to millions of euros.
They also report,
The mother of one of the girls who was in the villa owned by the Tate brothers when the masked men burst in gave statements to journalists.
"My child is a good child. She never caused me any problems. I always asked her if she had a boyfriend and she would say, 'No, mommy. I'm just going to college'. She's a very good child, I think that's why he recruited her, that she's too naive. She told me that she was going out for a drink with a friend. It seemed strange to me from the beginning, since I saw pictures of the girl she said she was going out with. I saw that that girl had a more dubious face, I didn't like her, but I said not to say anything to my child. I thought that she was a classmate of hers, she also goes out for a coffee with a classmate, she's not doing anything wrong. I think that's why she recruits her. Clearly, her entourage is to blame! My daughter is 20 years old, she's a sophomore at college. For a month now, she hasn't been telling me everything she's doing. She used to tell me everything. She went to several presentations. I think this guy (Tristan Tate) does this; he recruits naive girls from presentations. That's what I think. I think that 'fish' recruited her from there and brought her to this guy. Because he always sent me pictures: look, mommy, I'm at the presentation, we're staying this long, they're giving us this much money. The child told me everything, didn't hide anything from me. I think he saw her as naive and good and brought her here. He wanted to sell her here or abroad. What if he said: Come on, this is really good, that she's good, naive," the woman said.
On April 12, 2022, Gândul reported that investigators who went to the location
to rescue a woman from the United States
found that the British (as the report refers to them) brothers
actually had several girls who were video chatting for them. Some of them had tattoos on their arms with the message "Owned by Tate", which, in translation, means "I belong to Tate".
They also write that the brothers
hid several video chat studios in a rented building near their villa in Pipera.
Judicial sources revealed to Gândul that, in a rented location approximately 500 meters from the address where they live and which looks like a real fortress, four girls were discovered, including three Romanians and one from the USA.
Investigators said that each girl had her own room, where, in addition to video cameras, a large number of erotic toys were discovered.
Also
The Romanian women who wore the tattoo were reportedly reluctant in front of the police and defended their two "masters," while the third Romanian woman and her colleague from the US said they were being held against their will.
In this regard, the American Emma Aida Gabbey, aged 21, allegedly stated that she was approached on Facebook by Tristan Tate, who, after a short period of time, managed to convince her that he was in love with her and called her to Romania. Although she was involved in a relationship, the young woman allegedly accepted, and the former British fighter was quick to buy her a plane ticket. Arriving at her new boyfriend's villa in Pipera, Emma Aida Gabbey realized that she had just been the victim of a scam, as she was immediately given a room in the rented building for video chat. At the same time, Tristan Tate allegedly announced to her that if she left, he would find her wherever she hid and would hurt her. Frightened, she sent a message to her boyfriend in America and told him that she was being held by force in a house in Romania.
They also report,
The man notified the US Embassy and sent the location he had received from his ex-girlfriend. The American authorities immediately notified the Romanian Police, who, in turn, forwarded the message to the Ilfov IPJ.
The Ilfov police immediately obtained search warrants and went down with prosecutors from the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Buftea Court. Following the searches, two pistols and an airsoft rifle, which do not require authorization, various amounts of money in euros, pounds sterling and lei and a large number of bottles of champagne were allegedly discovered in the Tate brothers' villa.
Additionally,
The woman from the US stated that, despite the pressure exerted on her by the two British men, she did not start the video chat activity, although, according to the cited sources, a sex toy was brought to her room.
This article concludes,
Investigators suspect that, over time, the two British men would have recruited, through the same method, several girls whom they would have sexually exploited in the respective studios, some of whom would have been brought from the UK. The two men's businesses in the field of virtual sex would have been carried out through the company Talisman Enterprises, headquartered in Brașov, which would officially have two offices, in Bucharest and the Ilfov locality of Dobroiești. The file was taken over by DIICOT - Central Structure, after, following the investigations, possible crimes of human trafficking and rape emerged, which led to the opening of an in rem file. Consequently, the brothers Tristan and Andrew Tate were released, given that, for the time being, no charges have been officially filed against them.
Again, according to reports, no charges were filed at the time.
2022, December 29 - Charged with Forming an Organized Crime Group, with Human Trafficking & Possibly Charged with Rape, Detained, Some Sources Claim Andrew was Arrested
a former policewoman who is apparently involved in the human trafficking case opened against the two.
The following year, the Daily Mail would report that these two unnamed Romanian nationals are named Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel. They included the following images and caption.
Prosecutors said the Tate brothers had been under criminal investigation since April.
On December 29, 2022, reportedly, after Andrew Tate’s X account dueled with Greta Thunberg’s, the Romanian authorities paid visits to multiple addresses belonging to the Tate brothers. The New York Post reported,
Tate, 36, and his brother, Tristan, were taken into custody at his villa in a suburb of the Romanian capital city of Bucharest on charges of rape and kidnapping.
the action is not only taking place here, at the Tate brothers' house, but there are several other locations where there are raids. In fact, it has been confirmed that several other addresses are targeted.
three perpetrators were taken to the DIICOT headquarters for questioning, which will last all night.
They also reported that the (former police) woman’s home was searched and that Andrew and Tristan were detained by the Romanian authorities for 24 hours according to Romania’s CNN Antena 3. However, Reuters reported that the court agreed to extend Andrew’s detention by 30 days and according the Washington Post, it was all 4 - the Tate brothers and the 2 unnamed Romanians - who were to be held for 30 days. That report also states that according to a spokesperson,
All four suspects will spend the weekend in jail
The also write,
One also was charged with rape, but the spokesperson would not name that person, citing local laws.
The Washington Post reports that the brothers were charged with forming an organized crime group and with human trafficking. Apparently, it was not only the Tate brothers but also 2 Romanians who were detained and who were, reportedly, to be held for 30 days because, at least according to the Washington Post,
A Romanian anti-organized-crime unit gained authorization from a judge to hold the Tates and two Romanian suspects for 30 days, a spokesperson for the Romanian prosecutor’s office said. All four suspects will spend the weekend in jail, the spokesperson said, and the suspects have appealed the decision. One also was charged with rape, but the spokesperson would not name that person, citing local laws.
The Tate brothers were expected to be at the court in Bucharest. Prosecutors are seeking to send the suspects to trial. If convicted, they could face several years of prison time.
“No matter what the judge decides [on the longer detention], we will take further action in investigating this crime,” Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, or DIICOT, said in a telephone interview.
Romanian prosecutors said in a statement Thursday that they identified six people who were recruited and then sexually abused in Ilfov county, which includes the capital, Bucharest.
Authorities said that the victims were coerced into participating in pornography for distribution on social media and that one of the suspects twice raped a victim in March. The statement, which did not name the Tate brothers or specify which suspect was accused of rape, said the victims faced “acts of physical violence and mental coercion.”
Also,
Police said the four suspects organized a group in early 2021, conspiring to commit human trafficking, not just in Romania but also in the United States and Britain. Conviction in Romania on charges of human trafficking can carry penalties of between three and 10 years. For rape, penalties can range between five and 10 years.
They include the following image and caption.
Image captioned: “Andrew Tate with law enforcement officers in Romania on Dec. 29. (Octav Ganea/Inquam Photos/Reuters)”
the spokesperson said. Tate’s talent agent said in an email that the allegations of human trafficking were “an orchestrated hoax put on by the matrix.” A lawyer for the Tates could not immediately be identified.
A tweet on Andrew Tate’s Twitter account early Friday said: “The Matrix sent their agents.”
In a deleted YouTube video that was reposted to Reddit, Tate said “40 percent” of the reason he moved to the country was that he believed sexual assault cases were less likely to be investigated there.
The injured persons were recruited by British citizens by misleading them about the intention to establish a marriage/cohabitation relationship and the existence of real feelings of love (the loverboy method). They were subsequently transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov County where, through acts of physical violence and psychological coercion (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and invocation of alleged debts), they were sexually exploited by members of the group by forcing them to perform pornographic acts in order to produce and disseminate material of such a nature through social media platforms and by subjecting them to forced labor in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting of the amounts of money obtained as a result of users accessing the materials.
DIICOT said in a statement late Thursday that the four suspects in the case, which include two British citizens and two Romanians, were arrested on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape.
was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group.
Business Insider also reported that Andrew was arrested as did Newsday as we will see below. Meanwhile, one BBC report and other sources say Andrew Tate and/or the brothers and/or all 4 suspects were detained but did not say they were arrested while, for example, an other BBC report states that the brothers were arrested. This same report states,
Tristan, and two others, were also detained by the court in Bucharest.
Outside the court, the Tates' lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, said they would appeal against the detention
and states that
During the detention hearing, the two brothers maintained their right to silence, their lawyer told the BBC
They also report that DIICOT had issued a statement that
said officers had identified six people who were allegedly "sexually exploited" by what it called an "organised criminal group".
Tate posted a two-minute video response to his account roughly 10 hours after Thunberg's tweet, in which the influencer is shown wearing a Versace bathrobe and smoking a cigar.
About one minute into Tate's monologue, a person off-camera hands him a stack of pizza boxes from the Romanian restaurant, Jerry's Pizza, which some believe may have helped authorities track down Tate.
"Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country so they reportedly used his social media posts," tweeted civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who posted a screenshot of Tate's video from the day before. "His ridiculous video yesterday featured a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain, Jerry's Pizza, confirming he was in the country."
Speculation swirled overnight Thursday that Romanian authorities were able to locate Tate after he posted a video in response to Thunberg containing a pizza box from a local spot that gave away his location. Bolla denied that this played a role in the detention or its timing. “It was a hard job gathering all the evidence” in the months-long investigation, Bolla said.
It is unclear at this time if the pizza box did indeed help lead Romanian authorities to Tate's location. Newsweek has reached out to DIICOT for more information.
Mikael Thalen, tech reporter for the Daily Dot, wrote on Twitter that "No evidence so far proves Andrew Tate was located due to his tweet showing a Romanian pizza box."
"A Romanian newspaper merely said police used social media posts to locate Tate," the journalist said. "Tate had tweeted about being in Romania days before his interaction with Greta."
The boxes with the pizza chain’s logo allegedly allowed Romanian police to pinpoint Tate’s location, leading to his capture.
Within hours, the Google page for Jerry’s Pizza was flooded with hundreds of gushing reviews.
“Pizza so good you’d incriminate yourself for it,” one internet wit wrote.
“The pizza is so unique that people can tell what country it’s from. Andrew Tate learned that the hard way,” a second reviewer gushed.
A third quipped: “Ordered the ”Tiny Mushroom Special with Extra Cheese”. Pizza comes in an open and shut case. Perhaps a dish best served cold. Prices are criminal.”
As news of the Tate’s arrest continued to reverberate through the news media, even more amateur comedians flocked to Jerry’s Pizza’s page to poke fun at the notorious self-proclaimed misogynist’s plight.
“Quality pizza and outstanding performing in taking down [an] international human trafficking’s ring,” one reviewer raved.
“Pizza is so good, you even get a free cop with every order!” another wrote.
One of the reviews concluded: “Pizza worth doing time for. Be sure to ask for the Karma special.”
Even the owners of Jerry’s Pizza got in on the fun, tweeting early Friday a photo of one of their now-infamous pizza boxes and writing in the caption: “the reason we are the most wanted pizza.”
Greta’s account, meanwhile, posted this (archive here)
As I write this in March of 2025, it still has a little over 3 million likes.
Oh. Derp.
Regarding this question of whether or not the pizza was instrumental in locating the Tates, we have a question of our own. Are we to suppose that the authorities raided the Tates in April of 2022, then forgot where they lived when they decided to raid them again in December?
It seems this question never crossed the minds of various sources such as the BBC, CNET and the Washington Post. Hmmm. Asleep at the wheel? Long term memory issues?
Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romania's DIICOT investigations agency, confirmed the car seizures to Insider on Wednesday.
She said they were being held to "sustain the cost of the investigation" into Tate, and that they would also be collateral to fund any payments awards to their alleged victims.
They included a Rolls-Royce Wraith from the carmakers Black Badge range and an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate. Per the car site TopGear.com, a Wraith costs at least $300,000 and a Vanquish S around $250,000.
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO – Cars worth hundreds of thousands of euros belonging to brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, placed under seal / The most expensive is a Rolls Royce Wraith Black Badge, which costs 360,000 euros / Photo source: Gândul
Among the cars that DIICOT prosecutors have sealed include a Lada 1500, worth approximately 10,000 euros, an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate, worth 250,000 euros, a Rolls Royce Wraith Black Badge, worth 360,000 euros, and a BMW X6 M, worth 30,000 euros.
reported seizing assets worth an estimated $3.9 million.
Prosecutors have said that if they can prove the cars’ owners gained money through illicit activities such as human trafficking, the assets would be used to cover the expenses of the investigation and to compensate victims. Tate unsuccessfully appealed the asset seizure.
The Daily Mail would later report that DIICOT prosecutors ordered that the Tate brothers assets would be confiscated including $3,000,000 in crypto, luxury watches and 15 luxury cars. We’ll later see that in April of 2025, USA Today would report that a British court confiscated
about $2.5 million from bank accounts in Britain associated with the Tates.
is being investigated for two counts of rape, according to a court order obtained by The Washington Post, which also includesexcerpts ofextensive phone message conversations showing how Tate and his brother are alleged to have lured victims to Bucharest.
Romanian prosecutors have previouslypublicly statedthe case involved accusations of rape but have declined to disclose further details or say which suspect was accused. A 67-page court ruling that ordered Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, into administrative detention in late December details the charges prosecutors are investigatingagainst the brothers and two Romanian women accused of helping them run a human trafficking ring.
All four were arrested in December on suspicion of human trafficking and organizing a criminal enterpriseand ordered held as the investigation continued. None have been formally charged but prosecutors have outlined the specific crimes that there is a “reasonable suspicion” each defendant has committed, according to the court ruling.
The report also reads that Andrew Tate
is being investigated for trafficking a Moldovan woman from London and allegedly raping her on two occasions in March last year, once at a hotel in Bucharest and another time at a property in the city, according to the court order
Furthermore,
Tate is accused of exerting “psychological and verbal pressure” to force the woman to have sex with him and two other women at the hotel, prosecutors said, according to the court order. The second alleged rape occurred 11 days later when Tate used “physical violence and psychological and verbal pressure” to force the woman into intercourse, according to the court order.
Extensive WhatsApp conversations between Tate and the womanin London and Tristan Tate and an American woman he is being investigated for trafficking from the United States are also included in the file as well as references to statements from the women to Romanian authorities. The messages were reproduced in the file in Romanian but have been translated into English by The Post and have not been independently verified.
Prosecutors have said the messages are evidence of the methods used by the brothers to “gain the trust of victims they manipulated” by posing as “affectionate, honest people,” according to the court order.
The report states that Tate’s legal team gained a new member that week, Tina Glandian who, the report states, has had Chris Brown and Mike Tyson as clients. According to the article, Glandian she could not comment on specific evidence because the proceedings were closed but she did say, reportedly, that the Tate brothers denied all the allegations.
“It speaks volumes that they haven’t been charged yet despite the fact that there’s been an investigation for so long,” said Glandian. “They’ve searched their residences, seized their devices and here we are in February and their detention has been extended.”
The article state that Andrew Tate
met the Moldovan woman through Instagram in January last year, prosecutors alleged, according to the court order, and they began to speak romantically before meeting in February.
The conversation quickly turned to a move to Romania, according to the court order. “So I can keep an eye on you,” Tate wrote in a message on Feb. 7, the court order states.
The woman raised concerns about Tate’s work after seeing his online videos, according to prosecution statements in the court order. It’s unclear from the document exactly what videos are being referenced but the controversial social media influencer has spoken openly on YouTube videos about how he makes money from women doing live sexual performances online.
In the messages in the court order, Tate explained to the woman that he had used a webcam business to “launder money” and that he’d also started teaching men to start their own. “It’s all a cover,” he wrote, assuring her she could trust him. He told the victim that he’d meet her in Romania after taking care of some work in Prague and spoke about the prospect of marriage.
“I want to know that you are determined … serious about marriage,” Tate stated in one message, according to the court order.
“Yes. I am serious,” the woman replied.
After arriving in Romania, prosecutors say the victims were brought to a property where Tate produced internet pornography.
“I’m in the house,” the Moldovan woman messaged Tate, according to the court order. “I feel a bit strange … I wish you would tell it like it is so I know what’s going on … what do these girls do exactly?”
According to the court order, Tate replied that the women in the house work for “Only Fans” — an internet subscription service used extensively by sex workers.
“I mean, do they undress and stuff? Or something else,” the woman responded.
“No, just bikini,” Tate wrote. “And underwear.”
“I thought I would come here and live with you,” she wrote the next day. “It’s a little strange to have you put me with girls who work for you.”
Victims were coerced into producing internet pornography after effectively being turned into “slaves,” prosecutors argued, according to the court order.
In the messages reproduced in the court order, the woman tells Tate that she is being asked to make videos for TikTok.
“Just do it,” Tate responded, according to the court order. “It’s simple.”
The suspects took 50 percent of the online earnings of the women who worked for them, according to the testimony of one of the victims cited in the document who said women were subject to “fines” if they did not post exactly the content they were asked or if they cried during a live session or took too long on a break.
Tate and his co-accused said the women were free to leave or call the police. “Ask them for evidence and they will give you none,” Andrew Tate said as he was led out of court on Wednesday after an appeals court upheld a 30-day extension of his detention. “Because it doesn’t exist.”
The article also reads,
Tate said in the podcast that he was forced move his webcam business to Romania from the United Kingdom after an armed police raid at his house. One woman — whom he said made him about $25,000 a month — had accused him of assault. He described flushing his phone down the toilet as police banged on the door but denied the assault.
Additionally,
In a message reproduced in the court order, for instance, the Moldovan woman said she was thinking about going into town.
“NO,” Tate writes. “Going out alone … without telling me. Mall. Supermarket. NOWHERE. FROM NOW ON. It’s the last warning.”
Later in the report, it reads,
One of Tristan’s “rules” for her in Romania was “you never talk to anyone unless I introduce you,” messages between the two show. “Romania is my world. No friends from the outside,” he wrote.
When the woman arrived in Romania, Tristan Tate told her that she wouldn’t be able to leave, and that if she managed to “he would make sure that she will return to Romania,” the court order said, citing her statement. If she asked the armed guards to leave, they told her they did not speak English, she said, according to the court order.
She said that she did not call the police because Tristan Tate “scared” her and told her that he had surveillance cameras everywhere in the house, according to the court order. He would text her when she went into the living room, she said, to show that he was watching her at all times.
Also,
“I really wanted to see Romania and you be the one to show it to me,” she wrote to Tristan Tate in April last year. But she also said what she didn’t want to do, according to the court order: “I can’t show my body on Only Fans — sorry. I want to keep it just for you.”
2023, February 8 - Woman Claims Andrew Tate Pressures Women to be ‘Branded’ with a Tattoo of His Name
has told how she was branded with a tattoo of his name.
The anonymous Brit woman - named only as Sophie - alleged she was slapped, strangled and subjected to sexual violence by Tate after he lured her to Romania.
This report states that she
described how she was pressured to get a tattoo of Tate's name on her arm.
"There was another girl that had one done, he was sending me pictures of it," she said.
"It felt like something I had to do."
Earlier in the report Holloway writes,
Sophie claimed she was pulled in by the promise of romance after first striking up a relationship with Tate on Facebook.
The former model alleged she was tightly controlled by Tate - with him even "fining" her if she went out with friends without his permission.
Sophie was speaking out on BBC radio show File on 4.
A spokesman for Tate denied all the allegations and insisted all sexual behaviour was "consensual" when speaking to The Sun Online.
Sophie claims was eventually able to escape from Tate - and said she was not surprised when he was arrested last year in Romania.
The report also states that this woman alleges that Andrew
used to strangle her, including on one occasion that left her passed out - causing Tate to panic.
2023, March 31 - Released & Placed Under House Arrest
On March 31, 2023, the Associated Press reported that the Tate Brothers and the two Romanian women won an appeal to replace their detention with house arrest which they were to remain under until April 29 of that year according to DIICOT. They also, at that time, reported that none of the four had been formally indicted. Additionally, they wrote,
The court ruled in favor of their immediate release. Prosecutors cannot challenge the appeal court’s decision, which was final
according to DIICOT.
2023, April 13 - Three British Women Claim Andrew Tate Raped Them
three British women now aged in their late 20s or early 30s, who worked as webcam models for Tate, now say they are to pursue him in the courts in the UK.
They made allegations to police in the UK eight years ago but allege detectives failed to investigate properly before dropping the case.
Image from The Sun (April 13, 2023), captioned, “The disgraced influencer also posted a bizarre video of him smoking a cigar Credit: YouTube/Braso”
Also,
The women's lawyer, Matt Jury, said their allegations include rape, sexual and physical assaults.
They also say Tate held guns to their heads and strangled them with belts, revealed Mr Jury.
2023, June 7 - Now Four Women Claim Andrew Tate Raped Them
A fourth British woman has claimed she is a victim of sexual assault by Andrew Tate, alleging the social media influencer choked her until she lost consciousness.
The 30-year-old has joined a civil claim for damages against Tate, after three other women said in April that they intended to begin proceedings.
She said they had consensual sex but this became violent when Tate choked her, and when she awoke he was still having sex with her, which she did not consent to. The woman told BBC Newsnight that this was her second encounter with Tate. A few months earlier they had consensual sex.
She said while they were having sex on their second encounter, Tate put his hand on her throat and 'strangled me' until she passed out - and that when she came round 'it was a bit confusing at first', and he was 'still having sex with me'.
The woman also said she was subjected to violent threats by Tate, including one to kill her, adding: 'He kept saying: "I own you, you belong to me".
'All throughout the night he was being fairly aggressive and saying horrible things.'
Now, the fourth woman has come forward to claim she faced threatening behaviour from Tate after he 'strangled' her until she lost consciousness while they had sex.
The woman, who was a university student aged 20 at the time of the allegations in 2014, said she met Tate on a night out in his hometown of Luton, Bedfordshire.
The woman did not report the incident to police at the time, saying she only realised she had been sexually assaulted about six years later when she described what had happened to her friends.
She has now joined three other British woman aged in their late 20s and early 30s as they pursue civil claims for damages against Tate.
They all say they were victims of sexual violence by Tate between 2013 and 2016, when he lived in the UK.
2023, June 13 - Officials Investigate the 4 for Human Trafficking
The officials said the pair - along with two other female Romanian suspects - are now being investigated for human trafficking in continued form, saying it was a more serious crime than separate counts of trafficking.
Additionally,
anti-organised crime prosecuting unit notified the Tate brothers that the human trafficking charge had changed to trafficking in continued form, a DIICOT spokesperson said.
Under Romanian law, trafficking of adults carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
One more alleged victim was added to the case, which started out with six women, the spokesperson said.
Also,
DIICOT prosecutors also said they had opened a separate criminal investigation against a Romanian man close to the Tate brothers on allegations of human trafficking and forming a criminal crime group to sexually exploit seven women.
Prosecutors have said Vlad Obuzic, whose social media platforms show pictures of him with the Tate brothers, and two other suspects recruited their alleged victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a relationship or marriage.
Additonally, they state,
'To ensure the victims' loyalty and that they will perform only to the benefit of the members of the group, they were forced to tattoo the name or face of the group member exploiting them,' prosecutors said in a statement.
2023, June 14 - Andrew Tate Gets Served
In “Andrew Tate Served With Legal Letter of Claim Alleging Sexual Assault, Physical Abuse” published by Rolling Stone on June 14, 2023, they note that the 4 women in the U.K. who had allegations against Andrew Tate that we have discussed above and who had by that date come together to take legal action against Andrew Tate with allegations of rape, physical assaults, and coercive behavior. They then report that on that date, Andrew Tate was served
with a legal letter of claim at the Bucharest residence
by
the legal firm McCue Jury & Partners
This Rolling Stone article concludes with a quote from “a source”. They give us no idea of who or what the source may be and absolutely no reason to give this source any weight or merit. We’re not taking things out of context. Their conclusion reads,
“I don’t necessarily believe a word he says,” a source told the magazine. “I don’t trust a word he says. Now, he feels he has to say [these things] because there’s a huge army of little weirdos out there who want him to … [but] he’s just one of them guys. He’s a liar. He’s not trustworthy. It’s all a myth. It’s all a lie that he’s making himself believe.”
2023, June 20 - Andrew Tate Indicted, Charged with Rape, Trafficking Women, Trafficking a Minor, Having Sex with a Minor & Forming an Organized Criminal Group Related to the Abuse of Women
on charges including human trafficking and forming an organized criminal group related to the abuse of women, prosecutors there said in a statement on Tuesday.
The reporter also noted,
With the indictment, they will now face a trial in a Bucharest court, though it was unclear when that would take place.
The prosecutors’ statement does not specify which of the suspects is accused of rape, but a Bucharest court of appeals document dated January, detailing the decision to prolong the pre-trial detention of the Tate brothers, appends Andrew Tate’s initials to the charge. An official in the prosecutors’ office, speaking anonymously because the details are confidential, confirmed that the elder Mr. Tate was facing the rape charge.
and left it at that, sloppy phrasing and all. They also write of the
individual women who have accused the influencer of rape
and of exploiting them, one of them, a
British woman, referred to as Sophie to protect her identity, has claimed Tate slapped and strangled her to the point of passing out 'during rough sex'.
Getting back to Kwai’s NY Times report, she writes that on June 21, 2023, the brothers would be attending a hearing according to their spokeswoman, Mateea Petrescu. Kwai also reports,
Mr. Tate apparently chose Romania as his home and the base for his business operations because he believed he would be able to do what he liked there.
“I like living in a society where my money, my influence and my power mean that I’m not below or beholden” to any laws, Mr. Tate had told his fans.
But the country has in recent years made efforts to tackle the endemic corruption and lawlessness for which it had long been known.
Kwai also reports,
On two separate occasions, one of the defendants used violence and psychological pressure to rape one of the women, the prosecutors’s statement said, without specifying which defendant. On another occasion, when one of the women asked to leave the building, one of the defendants used violence against her.
Prosecutors said the four formed a crime group for human trafficking. Conviction in Romania on charges of human trafficking can carry penalties of between three and 10 years. For rape, penalties can range between five and 10 years.
The Daily Mail reported that all 4 who were indicted, Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel, and that it could take several years for the trial to start.
Image from the Daily Mail, captioned, “The Tate brothers - along with Romanian women Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel (pictured in February handcuffed and being led into court) - are currently under house arrest after being detained in the country last year”
There are also separate charges still under investigation which could lead to a separate indictment, including money laundering and trafficking of minors.
placed the divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate under house arrest for 30 days, as prosecutors investigate a sprawling new case that involves allegations of human trafficking of minors and sex with a minor.
accusations of having formed an organized criminal group, in addition to human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sex with a minor and money laundering.
In August 2024, Romanian authorities searched one of the Tate residences as part of a new investigation, a spokeswoman for the brothers said. Those accusations included human trafficking and money laundering. Romanian prosecutors confirmed that they had issued search warrants in the Bucharest area over the potential trafficking of minors, and sexual intercourse with a minor.
However, the source they cite for their claim, Romania’s DIICOT, dated August 21, 2024, did not mention a minors. It seems that some party either made a mistake or worse. Also, there seems to be an important question here of why the sources in the section immediately above did not mention any minors.
Consider this post and video as well [archive here] in which Andrew Tate can be seen saying,
So I messaged her. She’s like, “I’m only 16.”
I was like, “I don’t give a fuck. Know about me. I’m 21. I don’t care.”
Consider the video clips contained in the video compilation in the following post by Milk Bar TV [archive here].
We will return to this vile issue below in the section headed, 2024, August 22 - Allegations of Trafficking Minors, Having Sex with Them & Having Children with Them?
2023, August 4 - Tate Brothers Released From House Arrest & Ordered to Stay in Romania
The New York Times published “Andrew Tate Is Released From House Arrest in Romania” in which report that both of the Tate brothers were released from house arrest in Romania on this date. It was also ruled that they must remain inside the borders of Romania.
2023, September 24 - Alleged Red Eyes, Choking & a “I love raping you” Text
On this day, the Sun, reported that of the four British women, one of the four British women
claimed he texted her: “I love raping you.”
This report particularly mentioned allegations involving the eyes of the four alleged victims, the British women, turning red from the burst blood vessels in their eyes as a result, they allege of being choked by Andrew Tate. For example, they write,
the influencer allegedly choked them until blood vessels burst in their eyes
and
One of the alleged attacks included the 36-year-old "choking them until blood vessels burst in their eyes, beating them with a belt, and raping them numerous times…
and they reported that the women were strangled with belts by Andrew according to their lawyer, Matt Jury who, they report, said that
Tate held guns to their heads
in addition to allegations that
include rape, sexual and physical assaults.
Other than these details, the rest of the article was redundant in light of many reports that we’ve already looked at.
2023, November 20 - Pierce Morgan Interviews Andrew Tate
2024, March 11 - Tate Brothers can be Extradited from Romania to the UK
A Romanian court has ruled that the Tate brothers can be extradited from Romania to the UK according to a report by the BBC. It also states that the brothers were detained in Bucharest, Romania after police in Bedfordshire, UK announced that it had obtained an arrest warrant. However, according to the report,
The brothers can be extradited only after the conclusion of their separate trial in Romania on human trafficking charges, a judge ruled.
They have been released from custody.
Also,
The brothers, who "categorically reject all charges", will remain under judicial controls in Romania which prevent them travelling outside the country.
Before the extradition was granted by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Bedfordshire Police confirmed it had obtained the arrest warrant for two men in their 30s as part of an investigation into allegations of rape and human trafficking.
They also report,
According to the brothers' legal representatives the allegations date back to 2012-2015.
2024, May 8 - Andrew Tate Accused of Infecting Alleged Victims With STDs
Andrew Tate has been served with a lawsuit by four women who collectively allege he raped, throttled, beat them and infected them with STDs - amongst many other instances of intense abuse
They furthermore report,
Several of the women allege Tate infected them with an STD during the rapes.
have been accused of failing to pay tax on £21 million of revenue from their online businesses, including Onlyfans.
Devon and Cornwall Police are bringing a civil claim against the brothers – and a third person referred to only as J – over unpaid tax, Westminster magistrates’ court heard on Monday.
The force is seeking around £2.8 million in seven frozen bank accounts.
"Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are serial tax and VAT evaders,"
and,
"They, in particular Andrew Tate, are brazen about it."
as well as,
Ms Clarke quoted from a video posted online by Andrew Tate, in which he said: "When I lived in England I refused to pay tax."
The court heard he said his approach was "ignore, ignore, ignore because in the end they go away".
Also
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of failing to pay any tax on £21m of revenue from their online businesses.
and
The court also heard that the brothers had "a huge number of bank accounts" in the UK, seven of which have been frozen.
Ms Clarke said the money - from various products sold on websites including OnlyFans - had been “washed around” a huge number of UK bank accounts.
As well as owning extensive land, property and vehicles in Romania, the Tates had spent their earnings on “fast cars and property”, Ms Clarke said.
"That's what tax evasion looks like, that's what money laundering looks like," she told the court.
The brothers are accused of paying just under $12m into an account in J's name, and opening a second account in her name, even though she had no role in their businesses, the court heard.
Devon and Cornwall Police alleges that this was fraud by false misrepresentation.
Ms Clarke said all three would not provide any evidence in the case.
Also in the report, it states,
Devon and Cornwall Police is bringing a civil claim against the brothers and a third person, referred to only as J.
They are accused of paying no tax in any country on their online business revenue between 2014 and 2022.
The force is seeking to recover around £2.8 million in seven frozen bank accounts, an application the three defendants are contesting.
Furthermore,
Money from the brothers' businesses including Cobra Tate, Hustlers' University and War Room was paid into the first account, held with payment service provider Stripe.
It was opened in February 2019 in J's name with an incorrect date of birth, the court heard. Driving licences belonging to both Andrew Tate and J were later submitted to Stripe as proof of identity and address.
The majority of payments out of this account went to one of Andrew Tate's accounts, the court heard.
J also moved money through her own Revolut bank account, including one payment of £805,000, the court heard.
Of this, £495,000 was paid to Andrew Tate, and £75,000 to an account in J's name that was later converted to cryptocurrency, it is alleged.
The proceedings are civil, which uses a lower standard of proof than criminal cases.
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring will decide on the balance of probabilities whether what the police claim is true.
They then report that the case was adjourned for the time being. See the sections 2024, December 18 - Court Rules That the Tate Brothers Must Pay £2m in Back Taxes and 2025, February 12 - Money Laundering Investigation below for more.
2024, August 22 - Allegations of Trafficking Minors, Having Sex with Them & Having Children with Them?
allegations of human trafficking, including the trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor, forming an organized criminal group, money laundering, and influencing statements. The alleged crimes date between 2014 and 2024.
Furthermore,
The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision comes a day after prosecutors detained six people including Tate, 37, and his brother Tristan Tate, 36, after masked police raided four homes in Bucharest and nearby Ilfov county. Prosecutors had asked the court to remand the brothers in custody for 30 days. Tristan has been placed under judicial control, which typically involves geographical restrictions and reporting periodically to the police.
An unnamed foreign man also sexually exploited a 17-year-old foreigner, DIICOT alleges, and said he kept all of the $1.5 million (1.3 million euros) made from the criminal activity. The same man “repeatedly had sexual relations and acts” with a 15-year-old, the agency alleges.
Note that according to the report immediately below, one or more of the Tate brothers have “close relationships” with the alleged victims and have had children with (some of) them. Recall what we saw above in the video clips contained in the video compilation in the following post by Milk Bar TV [archive here].
2024, August 31 - Prosecutors’ Appeal Denied, Tate Brothers Have Children & Close Relationships With Some of Their Victims
The Associated Press reported that on August 31, amid the newer allegations of crimes involving minors and more (see the section immediately before this one), a Romanian court rejected an appeal by the prosecutors to put Andrew Tate in jail and, thus, he will remain under house arrest. The report also states,
The Bucharest Court of Appeal also ruled to keep Tate’s brother, Tristan Tate, under judicial control, which typically involves restricting communication with certain people and reporting periodically to the police. The brothers’ spokesperson, Mateea Petrescu, said that the judge also lifted certain restrictions regarding the brothers’ communication with alleged victims in the new case.
“They are free to meet and communicate with these alleged victims based on the close relationships they share and the children they have together,” she said, adding they “vehemently deny all allegations” against them.
Again, the Tate brothers are alleged to have children with and are free to communicate with these women who were allegedly minors and victims of the Tate brothers.
2024, September 9 - British Women Accusing & Suing the Tate Brothers of Rape
alleged, for the first time, she was raped by Mr Tate’s younger brother, Tristan - also an influencer with millions of followers.
This report also reads,
Another British woman has made a new allegation of rape against Tristan Tate, saying he put his put his hands around her throat as he did so.
Anna (not her real name) told us she went out with Andrew Tate in Luton in 2013. After a few dates, she says she went back to his house.
“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 attack, Mr Tate sent her disturbing text 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 said in a voice note.
In a text he wrote: “I love raping you.”
Text from Andrew Tate to “Anna”, as seen by BBC Panorama
Mind you, these British women are not involved in the Romanian case. As this report states, with the first two British women,
The allegations date back at least 10 years, to when Mr Tate was living in Luton.
The report also states,
Anna says he also tried to pass the strangulation episode off as a joke: “Are you seriously so offended I strangled you a little bit?”
When the BBC asked him about the messages, Mr Tate declined to comment.
In 2014, Anna told Bedfordshire Police about the alleged attack. Two other women made similar allegations, and a police investigation started.
In 2019, a file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service, but it was decided there was not enough evidence to bring charges.
Consider that, according to this report,
If found guilty, the two men could be jailed for more than 10 years.
This report also tells of an anonymous woman whom they call Sienna who claims that a decade earlier in Luton, U.K., she had met Andrew Tate, had a few drinks, had a good time and
had what she describes as “a standard one-night stand”.
A few months later, Sienna says she met Mr Tate again.
She claims that on this occasion 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, and then lost consciousness. When she came to, she says he was still having sex with her.
“I was absolutely terrified,” she says. “I just remember gasping for air... It was rape.”
In 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 friend of Sienna has confirmed to the BBC that she told him about the incident at the time. He also says he saw her eye injury.
Sienna didn’t go to the police and says she regrets it.
BBC Panorama is aware of a total of five women in the UK who say they were strangled by Mr Tate during sex.
When we interviewed him in June last year, he denied ever having strangled or having had sex with a woman without her consent.
“I know I've never hurt anybody. It's not in my nature to hurt people,” he said.
The report also states, unironically (which is ludicrous), that the authorities in the U.K. have singles Andrew Tate out because of what he states online that they deem to be misogynistic as if 1. it is their business if someone is writing misogynistic messages online and/or 2. they don’t have more important matters to be concerned with such as what these U.K. when have alleged or, perhaps, their grooming gangs. I digress. They write, straight faced,
They also report that the Tate brothers are thought to have moved to the U.K. about 2016 and that they
had been running a webcamming business in Luton - where women chat and strip online for money.
Later in this article, it reads,
Another British woman, not involved in any of the legal proceedings, told Panorama about her experience of working for the Tates. It is the first time she has spoken publicly.
Daisy (not her real name) says that in 2017 she had been dating Tristan Tate in the UK, when he encouraged her to work for the brothers' webcam business in Bucharest. We have seen evidence that Tristan booked her flight to Bucharest.
Daisy went of her own accord, knowing and agreeing to be involved in the webcamming business. She describes a controlling environment where she and other webcammers lived and worked together.
“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 were strict rules for all the women, says Daisy with almost every aspect of their lives monitored.
This description is echoed by a Romanian webcam model, who has also spoken to us.
“Raluca” says she was on the Tates’ books in 2021. She claims that “control and manipulation” played a primary role in their business model.
Most of the models working for the Tates “were dating them”, according to Raluca. She adds that some of them were women brought over from the UK.
The Romanian prosecutors say they have statements from three women who describe feeling “controlled” by the brothers. In the case file, some of the women say they were not allowed to leave the house “on their own”.
When Andrew Tate spoke to the BBC last year, he denied such allegations and claimed the women worked for themselves. He said that his role was simply 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.
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.
2024, December 18 - Court Rules That the Tate Brothers Must Pay £2m in Back Taxes
If you recall, as we saw above, the Tate brothers had been accused of evading taxes on £21 million in revenue from derived their online businesses. Now Sky News reports that the chief magistrate ruled that the Tate brothers
must forfeit more than £2m after a judge ruled they failed to pay any tax on £21m in revenue from online businesses including OnlyFans.
They explain,
He said what appeared to be a "complex financial matrix" was actually a "straightforward cheat of the revenue".
They explain also that
At an earlier hearing in July, Sarah Clarke KC, representing the force, described the Tate brothers, who are former kickboxers, as "serial tax and VAT evaders".
They were said to have failed to pay a penny in tax on £21m of revenue from their online businesses including War Room, Hustlers' University, Cobra Tate and OnlyFans between 2014 and 2022.
The court heard 38-year-old Andrew Tate's approach was "ignore, ignore, ignore because in the end they go away" and he said in a video posted online: "When I lived in England I refused to pay tax."
Police said the brothers paid just under $12m (around £9.5m) into an account in J's name and opened a second account in her name, even though she had no role in their businesses.
She received a payment of £805,000 into her Revolut account, the court heard, with £495,000 of that money paid to Andrew Tate, and £75,000 sent to an account in J's name that was later converted to cryptocurrency, the court heard.
Martin Evans KC, representing the Tates, previously said the bank transfers made by the brothers were "entirely orthodox" for people who run online businesses and they did "a singularly bad job" if they had wanted to distance themselves from the money.
They spent money on a number of "exotic motor cars" but nothing illegal, he said.
The judge found the "brothers' entire financial arrangements are consistent with concerted tax evasion and money laundering" in a written ruling.
"I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that they have engaged in long-standing, deliberate conduct in order to evade their tax/VAT liabilities in both" Romania and the UK, he said.
He found the frozen accounts were used to "launder the undeclared revenues" from the Tates' businesses as well as "for the purchase of properties, high value items and to fund their extravagant lifestyle".
British police can seize nearly 2.7 million pounds ($3.4 million) from internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan over unpaid tax, a London judge ruled on Wednesday.
They had much else to say but since the minutia of their tax case are not very relevant to the culture war, we will leave it up to the reader if they want to read the rest of the Reuters report. There is also;
2024, December 19 - The Earlier Tate Case is Blocked from Going to Trial
Reuters reported on December 19, 2024 that on that date, in Romania, the Bucharest court of appeals ruled
against sending internet personality Andrew Tate to trial on charges of human trafficking and sent the case back to prosecutors.
The ruling deals a blow to anti-organized crime prosecuting unit DIICOT, which officially indicted Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian female suspects in June 2023.
The Bucharest Court ruled in April of this year to send the case to trial, a decision Tate has appealed.
In November, the Bucharest Court of Appeals removed several pieces of evidence from the case file, including statements given by two main alleged victims and witness testimonies from the Tate brothers, both of which it deemed inadmissible.
The court also cited flaws in the indictment and legal rights violations. On Thursday, it decided to send the case back to DIICOT.
Judges with the Bucharest Court of Appeal said Thursday that they had identified issues in “the manner of presenting the facts and describing the constituent elements in the case” and that Mr. Tate’s right to defense had been violated.
Returning to the Reuters article, they remind us that in August of 2024
prosecutors said they had started a second criminal investigation against the Tates and four other suspects on accusations of forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering.
They remind us, also, that the Tate brothers
have a British arrest warrant and will be extradited after Romanian trial proceedings finish, a court ruled in March.
2025, January 10 - Andrew Tate Misrepresented on Benny Johnson Livestream & Trump’s Attorney Gushes Over Andrew Tate Like a Groupie
We recommend that you listen to the entire sequence which runs from 2:02:10 to 2:51:09. Tate, for the most part, speaks out against the lawfare that he says he and Trump are subject to and about fixing the UK’s “multicultural” issue. The more sordid stuff in Andrew’s life is glossed over.
Starting at 2:34:44 Andrew Tate makes it clear that he is against due process, justice and free speech when he says, “I tell you, when I’m in charge of Great Britain, anybody who’s disrespecting our flag, anybody is instantly and permanently deported. Anybody.”
Perhaps someone who thinks he has a chance of being elected as the political head of Great Britain should first determine if there is any such thing. There is no political head of Great Britain. Perhaps he should learn that one can become the Prime Minister of the UK. He has a better chance of being elected into an office that exists. Well, let him run a campaign to become “in charge of Great Britain” if he wants to. Let’s see how long it takes before this pinhead finds out.
But, seriously folks, he merely misspoke. Shortly after being introduced onto the stream at 2:02:10, Andrew Tate speaks of his aspirations to become the prime minister of the UK.
Starting at about 2:35:01, Benny Johnson introduces Alina Habba, one of Trump’s former attorneys. Saying hello, starting at 2:35:24, he gushes over Andrew like a groupie. She tells him she is a “big fan” of his. Doing her client, Trump, a great disservice, she compares the lawfare against Trump to Andrew Tate’s legal battles. Starting at 2:36:16, she says that she agrees with everything Andrew Tate says and says she has his back in the USA. She goes on to gush over him some more. This is from a woman who is reportedly is a mother of 3 and who has reportedly called herself
a devout Catholic
At 2:38:56, Alina Habba tells Andrew that she admires him. The nature of Andrew Tate’s alleged crimes was never raised with Alina Habba.
Bennie Johnson (left), Andrew Tate (middle) and Trump Attorney Alina Habba (right).
If one doesn’t know much about Andrew Tate and then watched this video in which, after all, he is painted as a conservative who, like Trump, is the victim of lawfare simply because he is just an influential and unapologetic conservative, one might be inclined to think that he is just an influential and unapologetic conservative. With today’s attention spans, after watching just the portion of the video wherein Tate is featured, one might be inclined to think that one is quite familiar with Tate and to be dismissive of much of what we can see here in this section of the Culture War Encyclopedia. If we are reasonable, we can acknowledge that Baron Trump may have no more knowledge about Andrew Tate than what is can be gathered from this Benny Johnson video (though he may know Andrew Tate as a UFC fighter nicknamed ‘Cobra Tate’) and that if he saw this video, he might well be inclined to, however misguidedly, see Tate as he painted himself to be; just an influential and unapologetic right winger who, like his father, is unfairly targeted and subject to unfair lawfare.
A lawyer for Trump, however, is someone we can rightfully expect much more from, much as we can expect more AG Pam Bondi who, it seems, has to be tricked and forced to do her job with regard to the Epstein debacle.
President Donald Trump on Monday named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
This report also states,
Habba said she looked forwards to working with Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue the president’s agenda of “putting America first,” and going after the people “we should be going after.”
In any case, neither Alina Habba nor Baron Trump is part of President Trump’s administration.
2025, January 14 - House Arrest Lifted
Reuters reported that on January 14, 2025, a spokesperson for Andrew Tate said that a
Romanian court lifted a house arrest order against internet personality Andrew Tate, replacing it with a lighter preventative measure pending the outcome of a criminal investigation
We will let them remind us that
Tate has been under house arrest since August when prosecutors started a second criminal investigation against him, his brother Tristan and four other suspects.
They also state that on this date,
judges lifted the house arrest measure as part of the second criminal investigation.
Furthermore,
Under the lighter preventative measure, known as judicial control, Tate is required to check in with police at regular intervals and is not allowed to contact other suspects or witnesses in his case. He cannot leave Romania.
Also,
The Tate brothers also have a British arrest warrant and will be extradited after Romanian trial proceedings finish, a court ruled in March.
2025, February 10 - American Woman Sues & is Sued by the Tate Brothers
The New York Times reported that an American woman filed a lawsuit against Tristan and Andrew Tate on February 10, 2025 accusing them of
luring her to Romania, conspiring to coerce her into sex work and defaming her after she gave testimony to the Romanian authorities.
They also report that the
civil complaint, the first suit filed in the United States against the Tate brothers, includes details about the accusations that led to their arrest in Romania in 2022, some of which have been kept confidential.
Also,
The brothers sued the woman who brought the suit, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, for defamation in 2023, accusing her and another woman of conspiring to defraud and falsely imprison them by giving what they said was fabricated evidence to the Romanian authorities. That information, the brothers said, helped lead to their arrests on charges of trafficking and forming an organized crime group.
They report that the new complaint filed on that date, February 10, 2025, in Palm Beach County, Florida’s Circuit Court
in Palm Beach County, Fla., said the Tates’ defamation lawsuit was part of a campaign to “bully and harass” Ms. Doe into recanting her testimony to the Romanian authorities.
Also,
Ms. Doe was 20 when she first met Tristan Tate online in 2021, according to the complaint. The two met up shortly after, when he was visiting Miami for a work event, according to the complaint, and they became romantically involved. After Mr. Tate returned to Romania, he told her he had feelings for her and asked her to join him, it said.
But after landing in Romania in 2022, Ms. Doe said, she felt the experience was “not normal.” Mr. Tate was rarely available and told her she could not have “external friends.” She lived with several other women, two of whom “appeared to be working very long hours” on OnlyFans, a platform known for adult content, the complaint said. “She became concerned she was lured to Romania on false pretenses,” the complaint said.
Another woman in the home, identified in the complaint as Mary Doe, also moved to Romania in 2022, believing she was in a relationship with Andrew Tate. After she arrived in Romania, he restricted her movements, said she could not go out alone and coerced her into having group sex with other women, Jane Doe’s complaint says. He referred to Mary Doe as “slave” in some messages, the complaint said, and in another told her, “You’re property owned by me.”
In their 2023 lawsuit against Jane Doe, the Tates pointed to closed-circuit television footage that they said showed the two women “freely entering and leaving the premises at their leisure,” and they denied any involvement in human trafficking.
They also pointed to text messages from Jane Doe to Mary Doe in which she appeared to discuss efforts to “keep those guys in jail” and their plans to write a movie together, according to a ruling last November that allowed the suit against Jane Doe to go forward. That exchange, the Tates said in an amended complaint, proved that the women were conspiring to incarcerate them for “financial gain and fame.”
They had also cited messages in which Jane Doe appeared to tell a friend that she was able to leave, and to not contact the authorities.
But Jane Doe said in her complaint that she and Mary Doe had wanted to escape to London first before reporting “the criminal activity they had witnessed” to the authorities.
It was only after she shared her concerns with her parents and a friend in the U.S. Marine Corps that the U.S. Embassy in Romania received a report of “an American in trouble,” the complaint said.
2025, February 12 - Money Laundering Investigation
The New York Times reported on this date that Andrew Tate in being investigated in Romania for money laundering. They also state that
the Tates also sued several people for defamation in a Florida court in 2023, including two women who had given evidence to Romanian authorities after their estate was raided in 2022.
2025, February - Trump Admin Pressured Romanian Authorities to Lift Travel Restrictions on the Tate Brothers? Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
After 2022, USAID has continued to support programs in Romania that involve the judicial system. For instance, the U.S. Department of State's Integrated Country Strategy for Romania, published in March 2024, outlines objectives to improve the rule of law by enhancing governmental, societal, and private sector capacities. This includes efforts to strengthen the judiciary and related institutions. https://state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ICS_EUR_Romania_18MAR2024_PUBLIC.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
This comment by MadamBè was shared by Richard Grenell ((at)RichardGrenell) who is the founder of fix California according to https://fixcalifornia.com/ where he is referred to as Ric Grenell. Also, according to Fix California’s website,
Ric Grenell is an American diplomat who most recently served as Acting Director of National Intelligence in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. Grenell also served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020 and as the Special Presidential Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo Peace Negotiations from 2019 to 2021.
While sharing that post by MadamBè or (at)0xm0m0, Grenell added his own thoughts on the matter,
The USAid programs were weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke.
The Biden team spent US taxpayer money to support left wing programs and candidates around the world.
Ciolacu Marcel ((at)CiolacuMarcel) is the Prime-minister of Romania at the time of this writing in 2025.Notice that he does not mention the Tate brothers. However, it does seem as if he had the Tate brothers in mind when he made that post.
Donald Trump’s administration has pressed Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, a champion of the US president who is facing criminal charges in Bucharest.
They added,
The Tates’ case was first brought up by US officials in a phone call with the Romanian government last week and then followed up by Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell when he met the Romanian foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference, said three people familiar with the matter.
A fourth person said a request was made to return the brothers’ passports and allow them to travel while they wait for court proceedings to conclude.
Don’t believe us, read the whole article for yourself and see, but they base these claims entirely on, they say,
people familiar with the matter
which could mean almost anyone who has watched a video about Andrew Tate, for example, or read an article about the brothers.
This editor has seen the claim that the Trump administration pressured the Romanian government for the sake of the Tate brothers repeated in dozens of articles (see the sources section below) that all directly or indirectly based their claim on that one Financial Times article that bases it’s claim on these allegedly existing people has been seen by this editor.
Furthermore, one can find articles that are not about the Tate brothers that use this claim from the Financial Times as a means to closely associate the Trump administration to the Tate brothers. See, for example, “Ric Grenell Calls House Judiciary Staffer to ‘Berate’ Them Over Jamie Raskin Letter” published by Notus on April 3, 2025, a few years after the Financial Times article in question, and this unsubstantiated claim is still being used as part of guilt-by-association narratives.
Additionally, the Financial Times report claims that the Romanian foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu would not remark on his communication with Richard Grenell. They also write that the Romanian foreign minister’s spokesperson
said Hurezeanu initiated the meeting and that they had “known each other for a long time” as they had both served as ambassadors in Berlin during the first Trump presidency.
The spokesperson did not comment on their specific discussions but said: “Romanian courts are independent and operate based on the law, there is due process.”
Grenell said he had “no substantive conversation” with Hurezeanu, whom he denied knowing. He “saw me in the hallway” in Munich and “asked for a meeting”, but there was no other follow-up encounter, Grenell said. “I support the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets,” he added.
This month Grenell wrote on X that Romania was the “latest example” of how funds disbursed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had been “weaponised against people and politicians who weren’t woke”. The Trump administration has slashed USAID payments and attempted to fire many of its staff.
They then include the post on X from Richard Grenell that we saw above.
It is written in diplomatese, of course. It does not mention either Andrew or Tristan Tate but some of it seems to apply to them with mentions of organized crime, human trafficking and so on. On pages 3-4, it states,
We will continue to support Romanian efforts to strengthen its rule of law. We will also emphasize the fight against human trafficking, an area in which Romania is eager to collaborate, but still faces many challenges as a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking victims. In general, Romania’s prospects trend upward, and our partners are eager to deepen cooperation with the U.S. Our mission goals are designed to make the most of this potential and align with the five pillars of the U.S. 2023 Black Sea Strategy.
On Page 9 it states,
Mission Objective 1.3: Romania effectively combats transnational criminal organizations that threaten the general public and global stability.
Amusingly, it also mentions on page 10,
fostering greater social inclusion of vulnerable, marginalized, and minority communities
and, on page 11, it mentions the objective of upholding
diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)
in their hiring and so on.
It mentions Russia 4 times, NATO 18 times, the EU 16 times, the Visa Waiver Program or VWP 4 times, green economy or green technology or technologies many times, energy independence 3 times, USAID 8 times, DEIA 2 times, the ‘Black Sea Strategy’ 4 times, the Black Sea 13 times, it mentions “pluralism, inclusion, and diversity” 1 time and the Tate brothers 0 times. But it does mention human trafficking 4 times and (on page 4)
Transnational organized crime
and it’s threat to
U.S. and Romanian citizens
and it states (pages 4-5),
We will continue to cooperate with Romania to combat transnational criminal organizations engaged in drug trafficking, violence, illicit weapons trade and diversion, human trafficking, and smuggling, among other things.
On pages 14-15, we read,
Objective 1.3 | Romania effectively combats transnational criminal organizations that threaten the general public and global stability.
Justification | Embassy Bucharest continues to partner with Romanian authorities to combat transnational organized crime that threaten American and Romanian citizens, as well as regional and global stability. Engaging with Romania to detect, disrupt, and reduce drug trafficking, violence, illicit weapons trade and diversion, human trafficking and smuggling, financial, and other crimes will support broader security goals, protect the public, and reduce the power and influence of criminal enterprises.
We should ask ourselves who is this MadamBè or (at)0xm0m0?
What do you think of the horrifying profile image? According to Grok on April 27th, 2025,
There is no verifiable information from reliable sources that confirms the real-world identity of the user behind the X handle (at)0xm0m0, who uses the display name Madam Bè. The account is anonymous, and the user has not publicly disclosed their legal name or personal details. Based on their X profile and posts, (at)0xm0m0 appears to be an individual who comments on global politics, technology, and cultural issues with a satirical and rebellious tone, often expressing support for hackers and critiquing government actions.
Without explicit confirmation from the user or credible reporting, their true identity remains unknown. If you're seeking specific details about their identity, you might need to rely on any public statements they make directly on X or through other platforms they may be associated with.
Grok is, of course, far from perfect when it comes to these matters. However, my attempts to search for info on the person behind his account both on X and off have been in vain and all that Brave.com’s AI can tell us about this account or person behind it is that,
The user @0xm0m0 is associated with a profile on the platform X, which currently does not have a description available.
For a bit of a review, American diplomat Ric Grenell or Richard Grenell shared something from some unknown person on X that has (at)TateTheTalisman tagged and which links to a government document titled, “U.S. Department of State's Integrated Country Strategy for Romania” and this diplomat Grenell tags the Romanian prime minister and more-or-less writes that USAid, under Biden, used American tax money to pay for, among other left wing agendas, the targeting conservatives around the world such as, it is implied by sharing that particular document, conservatives to whom it pertains, such as (at)TateTheTalisman who was tagged by the unknown person in their post that diplomat Grenell shared.
Those are the facts that we can verify by looking. What the Financial Times reported, however, is hearsay or just lies. Based on the available facts, there is no reason to be confident that the claim that the Trump administration pressured Romanian authorities to lift their travel restrictions on the Tate brothers is accurate or honest. It seems that an American diplomat has opined that US tax payer money should not go towards the targeting of conservatives around the world such as in Romania and he tagged the Romanian prime minister in the post while sharing a post from an unknown person in which one of the Tate brothers is tagged.
Regarding the pressures that the Financial Times wrote that the Trump Administration would exert for the release of the Tate brothers and the discussion with the American official on this issue,
the Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu
told Euronews Romania that Richard Grenell told him that he "remains interested in the fate of the Tate brothers", a statement that the Romanian minister did not classify as pressure.
Emil Hurezeanu: I didn't perceive the statement about the Tate brothers as pressure
They report that one of their Euronews Romania journalists asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Hurezeanu
"Do you consider it a personal matter of his or a message from the Americans?"
and that he replied,
"It is a personal concern of his, but I think it is part of a broader concern of the administration. Not regarding the Tate brothers, but you know that he is also responsible for the release of prisoners in Belarus, and in the Russian Federation. This is not the case at all (with the Tate brothers - ed.), but I noticed that there were speculations about pressure. I do not know what pressures of a different nature were made before or after, but what I discussed with Mr. Grenell was cordial, informal, very focused, non-committal and in no way did I perceive what he said as a form of pressure."
They remind us that according to Financial Times, the Trump Administration had been putting pressure on authorities in the Romanian government to allow the Tates to leave Romania according to a few unnamed people who are “familiar” with the subject. They also report that according to Financial Times,
the Tate brothers’ case was first discussed by US officials in a phone call with the Romanian government last week and then when Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, met with Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference, three sources familiar with the matter said. Another Financial Times source said a request had been made to return the Tate brothers’ passports and allow them to travel abroad while their criminal trial continues.
Richard Grenell, a close advisor to President Donald Trump, told Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu during a Munich meeting last week that he "remains interested in the fate of the Tate brothers," Hurezeanu told EuroNews Romania on Tuesday.
They did not quote any of the portions of that Euronews Romania report wherein efforts are made to correct the claims that Grenell and/or the Trump administration was exerting pressure on the matter. The same USA Today report, cites the same Financia Times report that we saw earlier that bases the pertinent claims on hearsay when they report,
U.S. officials also brought up the case against the Andrew and Tristan Tate during a phone call with the Romanian government last week, and a request was made to give the brothers their passports back and allow them to travel until their court cases wrap up, the Financial Times reported.
Grenell told the Financial Times he had “no substantive conversation” with Hurezeanu. “I support the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets,” he told the newspaper.
They also report,
The Trump administration is pushing Romania to lift travel restrictions on Andrew Tate, a right-wing influencer and Trump backer who with his brother is facing a cascade of charges and investigations over allegations of human trafficking, money laundering and rape.
The only evidence they offer is that same Financia Times report that cites the supposed hearsay of unknown people who are familiar with the matter. Reuters, on the other hand, preported, that
Romania's foreign minister said he had not come under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy to lift restrictions on social media influencer Andrew Tate, who faces human trafficking charges, despite them discussing the case.
that U.S. officials had brought up the case of Tate and his brother Tristan, both former kickboxers with dual U.S. and British citizenship, in a phone call to the Romanian government
and that
a source
informed Financial Times that
request was made to return the brothers' passports and allow them to travel while they wait for court proceedings to conclude.
They do not so much as note that these alleged sources are merely unnamed people ‘familiar with the matter’. To their credit, they did, citing Euronews, write that Hurezeanu said of Grenell,
"I did not perceive this statement as pressure, just a repeat of a known stance,"
as well as,
"I don't know what pressures of another nature were made before or after but what I discussed with Mr. Grenell was cordial, informal, brief, non-binding and I certainly did not detect any form of pressure."
the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration, through special envoy Richard Grenell, had tried to pressure the Romanian government to lift travel restrictions on the brothers
without noting who they cite as their alleged sources. Without letting on that the Financial Times report cites alleged unnamed people ‘familiar with the matter’, Vox writes that
with apparent approval from the US government
the
latest high-profile turn in Tate’s ongoing legal saga has again brought the horrifying allegations against him to the forefront
and that it is
also a reminder of the cultural reach of the so-called manosphere that Tate helped popularize.
There is more from this report that we should look at. They write that Grenell has
made his interest in the Tate brothers public — and explicitly political.
On February 3, before the trip to Munich, Grenell quote-tweeted a reply to Tristan Tate on X and alleged that Romania had used funds from the beleaguered USAID agency to target conservatives, saying the program was “weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke.” There appears to be no factual basis for this claim, but it bolsters the Tates’ longtime argument that they are the victims of a political witch hunt.
“I support the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets,” Grenell told the Financial Times.
claimed he “spoke to Barron”, referring to Trump’s 18-year-old son, after his detention in Romania. “I’m very close with the Trump family. I know them well. I spoke to Barron after the incident,” he said after Romanian authorities placed him and his brother under house arrest.
They did not establish when/where Andrew Tate would have stated that. You would think that a link to a social media post, for example, would be in order here. They continue,
The first lady’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the claim.
A few months later, when Tate posted a video about how he was “locked in my house” in Romania, Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr replied on X: “Absolute insanity.”
Notice that they did provide a link for that last claim. Here’s an archive to that post in case it’s removed in at some point.
In the aftermath of November’s US election, Tristan Tate made a pointed claim about the brothers’ influence in helping Trump win back the presidency. “What Andrew and I (mainly Andrew) have been doing for the last 4 years has been making sure young men in particular grow up immune to the [‘woke mind’] virus”, he posted on X.
“Millions of young men in Europe and the USA have a healthy rightwing approach to politics that they would NOT have if Andrew Tate had never appeared on their phone screens.”
It is perhaps fair to say that traditionalism is right wing and that untraditional lifestyles are left wing. Let’s think about the life styles of the Tate brothers. Even if we assume that they have broken no law, they are still actively living a very untraditional lifestyle. Multiple women, vanity, glorification of materialism - not just materialism, but glorification of it - flashy clothes, expensive cars, cigars, alcohol, porn production and so on. That’s not exactly traditional. Consider also that the Tate brothers more-or-less saying, ‘Look at our women, our cars, clothes, home, our porn and our money. Don’t you want to be like us? When can teach you for a fee.’
By the way, imagine believing that these guys are super rich and not seeing anything suspicious about the fact that they charge a lot of money to allegedly teach you how to be super rich like they (claim they) are.
They are not exactly traditional and hence not exactly right wing. They continue with the extraordinary claim,
The Tates’ release and flight to the US is one sign of the deep ties between the US president’s team and the cluster of rightwing media personalities and influencers who helped amplify him and bring him back to the White House.
Claims require evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. They offered none. Nor did they offer evidence for the following,
Barron Trump has been credited as the mastermind behind his father’s push into the “manosphere” media in the past few years, suggesting podcast appearances for him during his presidential campaign.
A loose but interconnected cluster of podcasters and online influencers — most prominently Joe Rogan — the “manosphere” has gained influence among large numbers of young men. The Tate brothers, who openly promote misogynistic views, are on the more extreme end of the group.
They also reported,
Last month, Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer turned presidential counsellor, appeared on a podcast with Andrew Tate, in which she said she was a “big fan” and “just had to meet him”.
“I agree with everything you say and I have your back out here in the States,” she told Tate. “You’re being under siege and I see it and just keep fighting.”
Habba likened Tate’s detention to Trump’s legal troubles, depicting the two men as victims. “I sympathise with you because I think you go through a lot of the same, ‘show me the person, I’ll find the crime’, that President Trump has gone through”, she said.
Without citing or linking to anything to prove it, they make the following 5 claims;
Grenell denies he explicitly pressed Romania to return the Tates’ passports. He told the Financial Times his encounters with Romanian officials were limited to running into foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu at a conference in Munich earlier this month. Hurezeanu told local media Grenell had mentioned the Tates.
Two officials said members of the Trump administration also called the government in Bucharest before the Munich Security Conference, to plead on the Tates’ behalf.
Grenell earlier this month said: “I never met with the [Romanian foreign minister]. He saw me in the hallway and asked for a meeting. I didn’t know who he was . . . I had no substantive conversation with him.”
They also claimed,
Trump on Thursday claimed he knew “nothing” about the Tates’ case
Also,
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, sitting beside Trump in the Oval Office, on Thursday said justice must be served. “There’s an English element here, so obviously it’s important that justice is done, and human trafficking is obviously, to my mind, a security risk. And so we’ll catch up with the story,” he said.
Published by USA Today on February 18 but updated February 21, in author “Romania pushed by Trump admin to lift travel curb on Andrew Tate: Reports”, Cybele Mayes-Osterman writes that the Trump administration is “pushing” the Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the Tate brothers without citing any evidence or source to support the “pushing” aspect. Osterman also writes, citing the same Financial Times report that based its claims on hearsay from unnamed people familiar with the subject matter that
U.S. officials also brought up the case against the Andrew and Tristan Tate during a phone call with the Romanian government last week, and a request was made to give the brothers their passports back and allow them to travel until their court cases wrap up
In the section of this article headed,
Tate brothers run in right-wing, pro-Trump circles
we see the following claim(s) with confusing or misleading phrasing,
Online spaces that attract Andrew Tate fans often overlap with other right-wing influencers who support Trump, like Elon Musk, now a top official in Trump's administration in charge of a mass purge of the federal workforce.
Are they claiming that Elon Musk is a fan of Andrew Tate or are they saying that Elon Musk is a right-wing influencer who supports Trump or that he is a person wherein both of these overlap? They fail to establish any interpretation of that sentence. It seems, however, that they may want the reader to think that they are saying that Elon is a fan of Andrew Tate and a right-wing influencer who supports Trump while maintaining plausible deniability.
At any rate, USA Today displays their bias when they write,
X, the platform Musk bought in 2022, often amplifies influencers like Tate that criticize "wokeism"
Trump said he knows nothing about the Tate case in Romania while speaking to reporters alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of the two leaders' meeting.
They offered no citation, link or embedded video for that nor for this next passage,
Andrew Tate's online instructional videos direct men to, among other things, physically assault women who accuse them of cheating, according to extremism-tracking group the Anti-Defamation League. "It's bang out the machete, boom in her face, you grip her up by the neck," Tate says in one video.
It's unclear what, if any, role Donald Trump's administration may have played in their release, but one of Trump's top envoys is said to have raised the case with Romania's Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at a security conference in Munich earlier this month.
In case you are wondering; yes, they cite Financial Times. At least they also report,
Hurezeanu said the Tates were mentioned during that conversation, but denied being pressured to release the pair.
Also
One of Tate's lawyers now works as White House liaison to the US justice department.
Paul Ingrassia was part of a team representing the Tate brothers in a defamation lawsuit they filed in Florida against several of their alleged victims.
Ingrassia also acted as Tate's publicist and says he got the influencer onto a show hosted by Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host.
He has praised Tate in online posts. In one dating from July 2023, he called Tate "an extraordinary human being" who was offering "a dying West some hope for renewal".
Ingrassia did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Additionally,
The Tates have also been talked about by several people in Trump's orbit, including Donald Trump Jr and Elon Musk.
The BBC, in an article that talks about the Tates, talks about how several people in Trump’s orbit talk about the Tates. Interesting. Oh wait! I’m writing talking about the Tates too!
In “Andrew Tate’s alliance with Trump has been in the making for a long time” by Matt Shea (who, along with his colleague Jamie Tahsin, apparently has written a book about Andrew Tate), published by the Guardian, February 21, 2025, it states, as a matter of fact, that Trump made attempts to intervene in
Tate’s rape and human trafficking cases in Romania
and
By pressuring the Romanian authorities to release the Tate brothers from judicial control, Trump’s special envoy Grenell could be seen as hampering Romanian due process and multiple human trafficking investigations, not to mention breaking Article 41 of the Vienna convention which requires that diplomats don’t interfere with domestic affairs in their guest country.
Also,
Paul Ingrassia, one of the lawyers Andrew Tate hired to fight his human trafficking case, was recently sworn in as the White House liaison for the Department of Justice. According to him, the Tate brothers were “sacrificed on the altar of the Matrix under the banner of egregious crimes they never committed”.
The reader may have lost count of how many serious claims they have made so far. They present no evidence and cite no sources other than that same Financial Times piece. They also write,
After Trump won the 2024 election, Tate tweeted that his case would be “dismissed”. “Watch this space ;-),” he said.
Tate has access to the highest levels of Trump’s inner circle. If, as he is insinuating, he has convinced the administration to act on his behalf, they would be attempting to interfere with dozens of alleged human trafficking and rape victims’ quest for justice.
As if they offered valid evidence, they assert that Trump supports human trafficking by asking,
So why support someone being investigated for human trafficking?
They answer their own question as if the (mainstream) media is accurate and honest when they write,
For those of us following closely, all the signs of a coordinated disinformation attack on the media and the courts by the Trump administration, the Tates, and a network of far-right agitators and pundits are there. Tate’s attack lines are parroted by the Trump administration and vice versa.
Additionally, Paul Ingrassia, a former Tate attorney, is now a White House liaison for the Department of Justice. Ingrassia has previously said that the Tate brothers were “sacrificed on the altar of the Matrix under the banner of egregious crimes they never committed”.
2025, February 27 - Tate Brothers Allowed to Leave Romania for the USA
The Romanian government (specifically DIICOT) posted a press release for February 27, 2025 that among other things stated,
The request regarding the modification of the obligation imposed on the defendants not to leave the territory of Romania was admitted, the other obligations being maintained by the DIICOT prosecutors, including the one regarding the appearance before the judicial bodies upon each summons, with the warning that the breach in bad faith of the obligations incumbent on them may lead to the replacement of judicial control with a higher measure of deprivation of liberty.
Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, who face charges in Romania including human trafficking and sexual intercourse with a minor, have left for the United States after a travel ban on them was lifted, according to Romanian prosecutors.
The Tate brothers, who are dual U.S.-British citizens, were reported by Romanian media to have taken a private plane from the country to the U.S. early Thursday.
Also,
Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, or DIICOT, said in a statement Thursday that prosecutors had approved a “request to modify the obligation preventing the defendants from leaving Romania,” but it said judicial control measures remained in place, The Associated Press reported. The agency did not expand on who had made the request.
The Tate brothers would still be expected to appear before judicial authorities if summoned and were warned that violating their obligations could "result in judicial control being replaced with a stricter deprivation of liberty measure," DIICOT said.
Additionally,
The Bucharest Tribunal ruled in April that a trial could move forward but did not set a date, with all four denying the allegations against them.
The BBC reported on that date that US sources told them that the Tate brothers were on a private jet somewhere between Romania and Florida.
did not respond to reporters who asked why the brothers had come to Florida, or whether U.S. President Donald Trump had helped get their travel ban lifted.
They also report that on that day, February 27, 2025,
Trump said he knows nothing about the Tate case in Romania while speaking to reporters alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of the two leaders' meeting.
the charges against Tate, Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters that his state was "not a place where you're welcome with that type of conduct," and that the Florida attorney general was looking at what jurisdiction the state had to "deal with this."
pressured the Romanian government to lift the travel restrictions on the Tate brothers, who are both dual US-UK citizens.
However, they did not name or link to a single source that reported that. Later in the article, they state that on February 27, the Tate brothers flew out of Romania
following reports that the Trump administration had pressed the Bucharest government to lift travel restrictions.
Again, they offer no sources or links for that. They continue,
A Romanian official said the decision to lift their travel ban had been made by prosecutors.
Also,
Romania’s anti-organised crime agency, DIICOT, said prosecutors approved a “request to modify the obligation preventing the defendants from leaving Romania”, adding: “These include the requirement to appear before judicial authorities whenever summoned.
When questioned by journalists, Romania's Justice Minister Radu Marinescu was unable to explain why the Tates had been allowed to leave the country.
"It is in their best interest to return," he said at the time, because, he added, they claimed to be innocent and because an additional case could be brought against them if they didn't.
Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), which is responsible for the case, said that the brothers had applied for permission to leave the country and that a public prosecutor had approved the application.
Neither the reason for the application nor the name of the prosecutor in question have been made public.
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrived in Florida on Thursday, where Donald Trump is expected to be this weekend, sparking online rumors that the brothers may visit the president there.
Despite multiple people discussing the possibility of a visit by the Tates, there is no evidence that this will take place.
In fact, Trump said at a press conference alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, that "I know nothing about that," when asked about the Tate brothers' arrival in Florida.
In a report on this date from the Independent can be read,
The White House reportedly pressured the Romanian government to lift the travel restrictions on the Tate brothers, who are both dual US-UK citizens
and
Andrew and Tristan Tate fly out of Romania following reports that the Trump administration had pressed the Bucharest government to lift travel restrictions.
They do not offer evidence or cite a source.
2025, March 4 - Florida Launches Criminal Investigation Into the Tate Brothers
After the Tates landed in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters that the brothers weren’t welcome in Florida
Indeed, on March 4, 2025, Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier announced,
Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Andrew and Tristan Tate.
Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the now-active criminal investigation into the Tate brothers.
President Trump did not signal any goodwill towards the Tate brothers either. Speaking at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer the day after the Tates landed in Florida, Trump said he knew "nothing" about their case.
“Florida is not a place where, where you’re welcome with that, with that type of conduct in the air. And I don’t know how it came to this; we were not involved, we were not notified,” DeSantis told reporters last week while lauding state Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) for taking initial steps toward a probe into the brothers’ unexpected visit.
However, Andrew Tate criticized DeSantis’s leadership and pointed to the FBI’s 2022 seizure of classified documents and property from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach as a sign of his disloyalty.
The Tates left Romania after Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu said this month that a Trump administration official expressed interest in the brothers’ case at the recent Munich Security Conference.
DW would later report,
Originally, the Tate Brothers, who are vocal in their support for US President Donald Trump, must have hoped that they would be able to leave Romania for the US after Trump was inaugurated and, once there, would be safe from further indictments.
Romania's Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu admitted that Trump's special envoy Richard Grenell had spoken to him about the Tate case at the Munich Security Conference in February 2025 and said that the US is "still interested in the fate of the Tate brothers."
Hurezeanu denied, however, that pressure had been exerted on Romania. Nevertheless, the Tate brothers were allowed to leave the country a short time later.
However, they did not receive the hero's welcome that Andrew Tate had obviously expected.
Also on March 5, Andrew Tate did an interview with Candace Owens. She first discusses the events and revolving around he and his brother going to Florida, what the Florida AG was saying and doing and so on. Starting at 15:18, Candace says,
Everyone in the conservative movement is a liar with this new, uh, ‘well, if you’re this or you’re that, or - then you’re not a conservative.’ I want to be very clear. I ran every conservative circle that you can think of. You name a conservative influencer - I have been at that dinner party, I have been in the- in that - in that conversation, I have been on that network, you know, whether it is as a guest - nobody had an issue with you - OK? - despite your case going on, until you hopped onto Pierce Morgan on October 9th and said that you were pro-Palestine and called it a genocide.
I watched overnight- OVERNIGHT! - they went from, ‘OK he’s fine, you can talk to Andrew Tate.’ Everyone wanted to, like, know Andrew Tate, figure out his platform to a complete 180 and trying to say, ‘Well, it’s not Christian, it’s not this, he’s a bad guy’ and suddenly everybody wanted to look into Andrew Tate. That, I watched that happen live, OK?
So any person who would like to debate me on that - who is a neo-con, who is pretending that they’ve held these perspectives about Andrew Tate forever, since the, you know, since the investigations began - please, I invite you to have that conversation with me because you’re all lying, OK? Let’s not dress this up as something that it isn’t. This is about Andrew Tate saying something and that you don’t want him to say because he’s too influential.
If he took a 2 party position and he said, ‘Kill every last Palestinian’ he would be governor of Florida.
They go on in that direction for a while, patting each other on the back for being unpopular for their views on the Palestinian vs Israeli conflict.
On this date, March 6, Fox News reported that Andrew Tate stated to Fox News Digital at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport,
"I'm going to live in America because I've done nothing wrong, and I've got an American passport,"
and
"My father served for this country, and I think there's a whole bunch of media spin that's going around that has people believing things that are not true."
also,
It was not immediately clear where he would fly from Opa Locka. Before leaving, however, he confirmed that he planned to purchase a Florida penthouse and become a resident of the Sunshine State.
Looks as if the Tate Bros are leaving Florida after a frosty reception —including a criminal investigation launched against them this week by FL AG at JamesUthmeierFL
The post at emzanotti shared appears to have been deleted by at Cobratate
Come get me if I’m guilty and charge me in a COURT OF LAW.
2025, March 11 - The Tates Tour the USA, Meet With Kanye & Andrew Tate is Allegedly Accused of Sexually Assaulting Influencer Bri Stern in Hollywood
Let us again remind you that by quoting or paraphrasing a source, we are not claiming that the source is accurate or honest before relaying that the Guardian reported on March 14, 2025,
Since their arrival in the US, the Tates have crisscrossed the country in search of attention elsewhere, popping up in Las Vegas at the weekend at a mixed martial arts festival where they were hugged by a close friend of Donald Trump, and in Los Angeles on Monday, where they preened in the front row of a press conference for the boxer Ryan Garcia.
Also,
Other than popping up for a couple of podcast appearances, the Tates have kept a relatively low profile since landing in Florida on 27 February and being whisked away by a large security team.
Journalists have been unable to establish where in south Florida they have been staying, or with whom. Their social media feeds have provided a myriad of contradictions, alongside a series of wild attacks on DeSantis, Uthmeier and reposting unfounded claims about a “south Florida Jewish mob” the 38-year-old former kickboxer believes is out to get him.
For example, in a post on 6 March Andrew Tate “thanked” Florida for welcoming him and promised he would “see you in a few years”; later the same day, he announced he had changed his mind and had “bought a Miami penthouse”; and four days after that, he was floating a plan to travel to Jamaica and “hang out” with a little-known fellow “influencer” called Biggs Don.
In between, he announced he was in California and tweeted at the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, to file charges against him.
Image from the Daily Mail, captioned, “Bri Stern, Tate's influencer girlfriend, allegedly filed a police report accusing the self-proclaimed misogynist of sexual assault following the scary March 11 encounter”
One of Andrew Tate's girlfriends says he nearly choked her unconscious during a violent sexual encounter 2 weeks ago, prompting her to report the alleged incident to police ... TMZ has learned.
hitting her head repeatedly while they were having sex in a Beverly Hills Hotel room on March 11, giving her a concussion and bruising on her face, neck and wrists. Stern said the incident ended their 10-month relationship, during whichTate allegedly subjected her to intensifying instances of verbal and physical abuse.
Bri Stern filed a sexual assault report and she claims Andrew attacked her on March 11 while they were staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel … according to sources with direct knowledge.
We note here that according to a New York Times report on the matter, she filed a civil complaint at the
In the 30-page lawsuit, Ms. Stern accused Andrew Tate of threatening her with violence and psychologically controlling her during their relationship.
She asked the court for a restraining order, saying that Mr. Tate had forced her to install an app on her phone so that he could track her, and give him the passwords to her social media accounts.
According to the lawsuit, Ms. Stern and Mr. Tate met in July 2024.
Ms. Stern, a model and influencer with her own cryptocurrency coin, was searching for advice, the lawsuit said, and Mr. Tate was looking for models to join him in Romania to help promote his crypto meme coin.
She went to Romania and they began a relationship, discussing plans to live together in the United States, the lawsuit said. At times, Mr. Tate was loving and kind, the lawsuit said, but he also berated her and hit her.
To exert his control over her, the lawsuit said, he asked Ms. Stern to get a tattoo with the words “Property of Tate,” which the lawsuit said he had required of several former girlfriends.
Returning to the TMZ report, we see the following…
She's told police Tate began choking her while they were having sex, but it got too rough, and although she begged him to stop, he kept going. Bri says the more she struggled, the more violent he got … and she felt everything getting fuzzy, like she was fading into unconsciousness.
Bri says the violence only stopped when Tate was done having sex, and once he fell asleep … she went to the bathroom to document her injuries. TMZ has obtained pics showing bruising on her face. Bri says she went to an emergency room in NYC -- where she'd flown for work -- a couple days later, and documents show she was diagnosed as "post-concussive."
Andrew and his brother Tristan returned to Romania last weekend for a court date in their organized crime case -- and we're told it wasn't until Andrew left the country that Bri felt safe enough to go to police and file a report.
USA Todayreports that 2 women in Britain have said that they Andrew Tate gave them
petechiae
which they say are,
red spots in her eyes from burst capillaries, which some doctors say can be a side effect of asphyxia
The TMZ report includes the following images of what are allegedly texts between Andrew and Bri.
They also report,
We also obtained a photo of Andrew with Kanye West ... and we're told they posed for the photo together in L.A. on March 10 ... only hours before the alleged choking incident between Andrew and Stern.
Andrew took the photo with Kanye the same night Kim Kardashian yanked North West out of Kanye's recording studio after Ye invited the Tate brothers to join them.
Image from the Daily Mail, captioned, “Andrew Tate has been accused of choking and assaulting his girlfriend during a rough sexual encounter at the Beverly Hills Hotel just two weeks after he was let back in the country”
Mr. Tate denied Ms. Stern’s allegations through his representatives.
“This is a blatant cash grab — a desperate attempt by a sad individual to exploit Andrew’s success and reputation for personal gain,” his U.S. legal team said in a statement. “Ms. Stern has chosen to air her false claims in the press, revealing her true motives: money and attention, not justice.”
In the 30-page lawsuit, Ms. Stern accused Andrew Tate of threatening her with violence and psychologically controlling her during their relationship.
She asked the court for a restraining order, saying that Mr. Tate had forced her to install an app on her phone so that he could track her, and give him the passwords to her social media accounts.
Also,
According to the lawsuit, Ms. Stern and Mr. Tate met in July 2024.
Ms. Stern, a model and influencer with her own cryptocurrency coin, was searching for advice, the lawsuit said, and Mr. Tate was looking for models to join him in Romania to help promote his crypto meme coin.
She went to Romania and they began a relationship, discussing plans to live together in the United States, the lawsuit said. At times, Mr. Tate was loving and kind, the lawsuit said, but he also berated her and hit her.
he became increasingly abusive during their time together, calling her sexist slurs, slapping her and threatening to rape or kill her if she ever betrayed him, according to the lawsuit.
To exert his control over her, the lawsuit said, he asked Ms. Stern to get a tattoo with the words “Property of Tate,” which the lawsuit said he had required of several former girlfriends.
Below is an image from a report by the Sun with their original caption that we have altered by blacking out everything but a tattoo. This is because the original image is not appropriate for minors. The tattoo (real or not) says “Tate property”. It is located on a woman’s body in the bikini bottom area. The the girl or woman with the tattoo can be seen and heard talking about it and what it means in that video compilation by Milk Bar TV [archive here] that we saw above.
tweeted a picture apparently of the ex-girlfriend who features in the shocking video showing off a tattoo on her groin that reads "Tate Property", as if she had been branded
they have left the US and are flying back to Romania, where they face human trafficking and other charges.
Additionally,
Romanian prosecutors stressed the case against the brothers had not been dropped and that they remain "under judicial control" - meaning they have to regularly report to authorities and are expected to return to Romania.
to "jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper" — landed at Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport shortly before 1:00 a.m. local time Saturday morning.
After arriving at their residence near Bucharest, Andrew Tate told reporters they returned because "innocent men don't run from anything" and he vowed to clear his name in court.
part of preventative judicial control measures pending the investigation, the Tates are required to regularly check in with authorities in Romania. Their next check-in is due on Monday.
2025, April 15 - Andrew Tate has a Hearing in London
Four women are suing Tate over allegations of sexual violence, including one who claims the former professional kickboxer grabbed her by the throat on a number of occasions in 2015, assaulted her with a belt and pointed a gun at her face.
In written submissions for a hearing on Tuesday, Anne Studd KC, for the women, said the case “is understood to be the first claim where allegations of coercive control have been considered in a civil context of whether that behaviour can amount to intentional infliction of harm”.
In written submissions, Ms Studd said coercive control was “a form of grooming and manipulation where the victim becomes less and less able to respond in what might be perceived as a normal way, in particular, she may not leave even if the door is open”.
She added: “The claimants aver that behaviour identified as coercive control can in law give rise to a claim for intentional infliction of harm in tort and thus sound in damages.”
Vanessa Marshall KC, for Tate . . . also said that, as well as the four women giving evidence, “there may well be a further 11 witnesses of fact in support of the claimants’ case”, and that Tate “will be seeking to call about 11 witnesses as well”.
A civil case brought by four women against Andrew Tate is believed to be a legal first, a barrister for his accusers has said.
The women accuse Tate of rape, assault and coercive control between 2013 and 2015. One claims he threatened to kill her, another says he made clear he would kill anyone who spoke to her, and a third claims he convinced her he had killed others.
In written submissions, Anne Studd KC said she believed this was the first case of its kind in which it is argued that coercive control amounted to "intentional infliction of harm" - a legal concept similar to emotional distress.
Tate denies the claims, saying they are a "pack of lies" and "gross fabrications".
The women are seeking damages "arising from the assaults, batteries, and infliction of intentional harm", their civil claim states.
hearing in London, before Judge Richard Armstrong, is dealing with preliminary matters, including disclosure and legal costs, but the judge said the claimants were “seeking damages likely to reach six figures”.
On April 12, 2025, USA Today reported about a court hearing in a coming up on April 15, 2025 in London and stated that
A British court has already confiscated, separate court filings show, about $2.5 million from bank accounts in Britain associated with the Tates. A British court ruled they failed to pay taxes on their adult entertainment businesses that yielded $30 million in revenue. The Tates are facing a separate criminal investigation in Britain in connection with allegations of rape and trafficking that date to between 2012 and 2015. Neither has been charged. In Romania, the brothers face allegations of human trafficking, money laundering and sex crimes.
The Tates recently traveled to the Middle East as they await the outcome of Romania's criminal investigation.
Also,
"Spending $185,000 on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper," Tate posted on social media platform X in late March as they left the U.S., first for Romania, then Dubai.
"Innocent men don't run. They clear their name in court."
brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged in Britain with rape and other crimes, prosecutors said . . .
The charges were authorized in January last year but not publicized, though news media at the time reported on a U.K. arrest warrant issued against the Tates, dual U.S. and British citizens who moved to Romania in 2016. The Crown Prosecution Service said this was the first time it confirmed the two had been criminally charged in Britain.
said a total of 21 charges had been authorized against the brothers, who were born in the United States and hold dual British and American citizenship. The statement also said they would be extradited to the United Kingdom after the conclusion of separate criminal proceedings in Romania. Charges can be lodged against suspects only when they are physically in Britain.
They also report,
Andrew Tate, 38, faces 10 charges, including rape, assault causing actual bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain, the British authorities said. The charges relate to accusations by three women.
Tristan Tate, 36, faces 11 charges, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking, which are connected to allegations from one of the women.
Additionally,
The accusers were not identified because anyone making a report of sexual offenses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is legally granted automatic anonymity for life from the moment the allegation is made, regardless of the outcome of legal proceedings.
The whereabouts of the brothers was not immediately clear. They were photographed a week ago outside a police station in Voluntari, Romania, where they have to report regularly while facing charges there.
Mateea Petrescu, a spokeswoman for Andrew Tate, said in April that he denied any wrongdoing and would “defend himself vigorously.” She declined a request for comment on Wednesday.
A Question of Murder - Andrew Tate’s ‘Girlfriend’ Says, “I’ve actually seen some guys ‘accidentally’ killed their girlfriends during sex, choking them that hard.”
On February 15, 2023, an account on X, (at)Sofya_salam posted a video [archive here] of Andrew Tate’s (former) ‘girlfriend’ saying,
I’ve actually seen some guys ‘accidentally’ killed their girlfriends during sex, choking them that hard.
UPDATES WILL BE ADDED HERE AS EVENTS UNFOLD
Tates Sue People
2025, April - The Tate brothers Sue X Users
On April 1, the Daily Mailreported that the brothers
In the same report, the Daily Mail wrote that it was an
aggressive legal move, slammed by victims' rights activists as an 'intimidation tactic'
Also,
The Tates' 61-page defamation lawsuit, filed from their new home of Florida, is the latest attempt by the multi-millionaire brothers to shut down accusers who claim they ran a criminal organization forcing women to make OnlyFans porn, trafficked minors for sex, beat and raped victims.
Their Palm Beach County court complaint is against a total 15 defendants, some identified only by their X social media usernames, such as 'CrayonMurders' and 'Mad_About_Sheep'.
Among the 15 are popular Australian YouTuber Nathan Livingstone, UK lawyer for alleged Tate victims Matthew Jury, and top sex exploitation victim advocate Eleanor Gaetan, who also represents the Tates' sex abuse accusers.
The Tate brothers claim these X users formed a group called 'Team Matrix' to 'maliciously defame the Tate Brothers and turn public opinion against them,' using information fed to them by lawyers for the alleged Tate victims.
Gaetan works for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). The Center's President Marcel van der Watt called the case an 'intimidation tactic' and 'utterly without merit and an attack on her First Amendment Rights' in a statement released last week.
'This defamation suit is yet another intimidation tactic that is the Tate brothers' modus operandi for silencing critics and witnesses against them,' van der Watt said.
Livingstone, who goes by MilkBarTV online, responded to the Tates' defamation lawsuit with a devastating compilation video posted on X Wednesday, showing Andrew describing intense violence.
Here is that post on X (archive here) and below are some screenshots from the video in the post.
The picture that emerges from the allegations is of a massive, organized, and monetized global network of sexual exploitation, operating largely in the open, helmed by a man who is being lauded and rewarded by legions of fans for his misogyny.
Is it any surprise that Andrew Tate is a supporter of Donald Trump? Is it any surprise that so many in Donald Trump’s administration are supporters of Andrew Tate? In some ways, Tate is the ultimate Maga man. Like Trump, he seems to have pushed American men dramatically to the right, especially on questions of gender equality. And like Trump, Tate appears to have inspired much more abuse than he has personally committed.
The men’s appeal is not only in providing their followers with the vicarious pleasure of witnessing their public sadism, but in granting ideological and rhetorical permission to pursue sadism of their own. Any man can be a rapist, the logic goes, and so any man can have – to soothe their own sense of inadequacy – the comfort of knowing that there is at least one person less powerful than him. In that way, Tate’s logic of monetized sexual exploitation is perhaps a decent model of Trump’s theory of governance: that force and domination are their own end.
The Trump regime is now stuffed with alleged rapists and sexual abusers. Besides Trump himself, there is his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth; and health and human services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr; Trump’s first pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, was accused in a House ethics report of “regularly” paying for sex, including with minors. These are not deficits or embarrassments in Trump world; they are assets. Sexual violence may have been the first form of authoritarianism: for the Trump regime, it also seems to be the paradigmatic one.
Andrew Tate & Islam
On June 20, 2023, the Daily Mailreported that Andrew Tate
now quotes Nelson Mandela and the Koran. Having declared himself an atheist, he said in October that he had converted to Islam.
In January he appeared in court in Bucharest in handcuffs, carrying a book that appeared to be the Koran.
He indicated on Twitter on March 23 that he was observing Ramadan, during which Muslims abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset.
He wrote that when he was given food 'I spend my entire day destroying the flies and ants who get close to the meal' until the sun goes down when 'in accordance' with Ramadan, 'I eat the stone cold food in my cell by myself.'
After declaring his conversion to Islam, Tate stated he was already collecting bricks to stone his partner if she ever cheated, alluding to the Sharia punishment for adultery.
Compilation of Andrew Tate blatantly lying about his criminal cases in interviews.
Some of Tate's go to lies in interviews:
-Tate stopped his webcam business 7 - 10 years ago. His webcam business was running until his arrest in 2022. He also lies or downplays how much money he made from it.
-Tate was barely involved in the actual running of the webcam. There is endless footage of Tate describing in detail how he controlled every aspect of webcamming (even in some cases stating he took 100% of the profits). This is also backed up by verified chats & other evidence in the indictment.
-The Loverboy method he's charged with is about 'being nice.' The Loverboy method is about manipulating someone into believing you love them then forcing them into prostitution or illegal activities. It's one of the most common methods of human trafficking (also used by UK grooming gangs).
-Tate's charged with making girls do TikTok/The case is all about TikTok. The indictment includes TikTok, Webcamming & OnlyFans.
-None of the videos of Tate self snitching are included as evidence. A substantial amount are absolutely included as evidence & quoted at length in the indictment.
-The cases only go back to 2021. The cases date back as far as 2012 in the UK & 2016 in Romania (before he was famous).
-They dug into his past & found nothing. Tate is facing 3 criminal trials (2 x Romania, 1 x UK) & a UK civil trial. These involve at least 10 victims of rape/sexual assault & dozens of human trafficking victims. The victims are real, they're testifying against Tate & the crimes that are alleged are incredibly disturbing & brutal in nature (including continuous statutory r@pe of a 15 year old).
Andrew Tate also bizarrely lies even about what he's even charged with - which is very easy to disprove.
A good rule of thumb is if Andrew Tate is talking about his criminal cases - he's probably lying.
Of course, this does not mean that he is guilty. Whatever he may have done, according to this same report for New Lines Magazine, Muslim preachers welcome him despite his past behavior, according to the author, who writes,
He boasts about having an endless series of girlfriends and has acknowledged that he has used women to create adult content for profit.
As we will see, he may be guilty of far worse. At any rate, according to the reporter,
Tate has never once indicated any desire to repent.
The report also states,
I approached some of Tate’s most avid Muslim defenders online. They ranged in age from 21 to 32 and agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.
and
one of the young men said, speaking of Tate’s exploits and vices. “Nothing he was doing or is doing now can be worse than kufur,”
This means that nothing Tate did was as bad as not being a Muslim. He reportedly continued to say that Islam forgives everything except being a non-Muslim.
Image from New Lines Magasine, captioned: “British-American former professional kickboxer and controversial influencer Andrew Tate (L) clutches a copy of the Quran as he leaves the Bucharest Court of Appeal with his brother. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)”
The report also states,
I approached some of Tate’s most avid Muslim defenders online. They ranged in age from 21 to 32 and agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.
and
one of the young men said, speaking of Tate’s exploits and vices. “Nothing he was doing or is doing now can be worse than kufur,”
This means that nothing Tate did was as bad as not being a Muslim. He reportedly continued to say that Islam forgives everything except being a non-Muslim. Ironically, she writes,
I struggled to understand the cognitive dissonance before me. While it is true that, from the religious perspective, new Muslims must be welcomed, repenting for one’s sins is also a vital part of converting to Islam — and Tate has never once indicated any desire to repent.
The irony is that it is the reporter who suffers from cognitive dissonance. Tate’s alleged behavior allegedly does not bother the alleged Muslims that she allegedly discussed this with because (seemingly) they understand their own religion and jihad. Her own stubborn ignorance and cognitive dissonance apparently persisted further as they made a comparison
between Tate and early Muslims from the conquest era. “Muslim men have historically had women on the side and found ways to justify it,” said another respondent. “Look at the concubines! Owning them as war spoils was permissible in Islam. Men used them for entertainment purposes. They used to buy and sell them. That tier of women is not different from the ones in Andrew’s webcams. The rules that apply to these women are different from the ones that apply to the women in our families, like our sisters and potential wives.”
Also,
The Egyptian preacher Dr. Haitham Talaat, a physician-turned-online-preacher, published a long video on his YouTube channel (boasting 406,000 subscribers) praising Tate
She still seems confused when the answer is right in from of her as she writes,
his conversion to Islam is telling — not for understanding the milieu he comes from but for the reactions from Muslims, who might have been expected to stand against most of his views and behavior. The fact that they have overlooked his involvement in racy adult video content, accusations of rape and human trafficking…
Two of the most prominent citizen journos orbiting the Tate’s legal woes confronted Andrew on a space about the latest charges of “continuous sexual acts with a minor”—-instead of Tate engaging in conversation about the charges HE FLED LIKE A LITTLE ____
Listen to that deflecting nervous laugh. He can’t face the heat. This is why he’s so delulu about the imaginary“dEfEaTiNg tHe mAtRiX” because he can’t live in his own reality
Consider this from Phil Labonte of All That Remains who points out that beside being morally reprehensible, Tate is not very smart because, as Labonte posted [archive here],
Endtro
As I write this in the Spring of 2025, though their legal troubles in Romania go back some years, the Tate brothers legal troubles in the UK seem to just beginning to get serious. Perhaps not. Perhaps the British accusers are not victims but rather false accusers.
At any rate, since it is such a potentially serious matter and because it was so deeply buried in the vast wealth of content above, the following bares repeating here, moreover that we may consider it in closing. As we saw above, Associate Press reported on August 23, of 2024,
An unnamed foreign man also sexually exploited a 17-year-old foreigner, DIICOT alleges, and said he
(“he” meaning Andrew Tate)
kept all of the $1.5 million (1.3 million euros) made from the criminal activity. The same man “repeatedly had sexual relations and acts” with a 15-year-old, the agency alleges.
If indeed there was a foreign man paid Andrew Tate $1.5 million to make available to him a 17 year old to sexually exploit and a 15 year old with which to have sex repeatedly, would this an isolated event or merely the only one of many such transactions that has come under scrutiny by the law in Romania?
Also, it bares recalling the video we saw above [archive here] appearing to show Andrew Tate’s (former) ‘girlfriend’ saying,
I’ve actually seen some guys ‘accidentally’ killed their girlfriends during sex, choking them that hard.
If there is any truth to this claim, and let’s hope there is none, we can at least hope this dark cruelty comes to light and that the guilty are brought to justice.
~ Justin Trouble, May 30, 2025
We will update this section of the Culture War Encyclopedia as events unfold.
