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Leaked texts show Andrew Tate’s alleged trafficking tactics to exploit woman: report
By Emily Crane
July 27, 2023 12:22pm
Self-proclaimed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate copped to sounding “almost evil” as he detailed the tactics he supposedly used to exploit and manipulate an alleged sex-trafficking victim, newly leaked messages show.
The alleged tactics were laid bare in a string of messages from 2021 that Tate had posted in his War Room network — an all-male social platform and Telegram channel made up of his associates, Rolling Stone reported.
The 36-year-old, who is currently under house arrest in Bucharest, Romania after being arrested with his brother Tristan last December on suspicion of sex trafficking, appeared to gloat to his fellow War Room members about how he’d allegedly coaxed a woman into doing sex work for him.
Tate detailed in the messages how he recruited the woman, who had moved from her native country to be with him in Bucharest, to start producing sexualized online content for him — despite her initially objecting to sending him photos or doing OnlyFans.
“Since she moved [to Bucharest] she’s been fed. But nothing else,” he allegedly wrote in the messages.
“She’s broke. And she can’t go home. And she can’t leave the house. Man, I sound almost evil. But I’m not. I’m a Shephard. Leading the sheep. She doesn’t realize that following me makes life better for her.”
In other messages, Tate allegedly described how he made the woman even more dependent on him by falsely telling her he was angry after learning through her own friends that she had supposedly worked at a sex club.
Tate, who said he’d threatened to kick her out, went on to suggest that the lie had put the woman on the defensive and made her more reliant on him.
“The real goal is for her to agree to never go anywhere without me. Not even her home town,” he writes. “I need her working,” he allegedly wrote.
In a screenshot of an apparent text exchange between Tate and the woman, he allegedly told her: “You are never going back to [her hometown] even to visit” and “you don’t need to leave the house in Bucharest….We are together. Always.”
She responded: “Yes. I understand.”