Andrew Tate, an online bigot, vowed to sue at least one of the women who had accused him of sex trafficking.
According to the woman’s US attorneys, the controversial influencer sent her and her family a stop and desist letter in December threatening to sue them for defamation and $300 million (£249 million).
After being detained in December, Andrew Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, are presently being held in custody in Romania while investigators look into several allegations of rape and sex trafficking.
A Romanian court recently discovered that the women who worked for the brothers and claimed not to have been trafficked had been indoctrinated.
The brothers adamantly refute the allegations and launched legal proceedings against two women in Romania in April, allegedly in an effort to intimidate witnesses, according to legal experts.
According to the BBC, the lady allegedly got a letter accusing her of making “false and defamatory remarks” against the Tate family.
“In April 2022, you misrepresented to a third party that our Client [Andrew Tate] had detained you against your will, assaulted you, and engaged in human trafficking.
“You have repeatedly made false and malicious accusations against the Tate brothers to the police, the media, and another American citizen,” the court said.
Attorney Benjamin Bull, who represents the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation in the United States, said that his client is a crucial witness in the cases brought against the controversial individuals.
The letter, he said, was meant to attempt to persuade the ladies who were coming forward to go into hiding.
“They want these young women to hide down in a hole and never speak out or recount what they witnessed or what happened to them,” one of the women said.
“It’s obviously an attempt to intimidate,”
While they deny intimidation, the Tate brother’s attorneys acknowledged the letter’s authenticity.
According to the influencers’ advisor Tina Glandian, the brothers’ pursuit of legal action for slander was not unusual.
The Tates lost their appeal against having their custody extended and will now be held in jail at least until February 27.
After a well publicized raid on their £600,000 property in Romania in late December, the brothers were taken into custody.
Throughout the course of the investigation into the allegations against them, they are being detained in preventive detention.
Six women are reportedly the key witnesses in the investigation, but no charges have yet been filed.
The identities of the witnesses against the Tate brothers have been made public online and in comments by the Tate brothers notwithstanding the confidentiality afforded to victims of sexual assault.
Several of the women’s attorneys claim that they have received a lot of internet harassment from Tate fans, including death threats.
Ben Bull’s coworker Dani Pinter said that internet videos were attempting to “sl** shame” women into not testifying.
“Included in it is their personal information, such as where they work and who their family members are, with the obvious goal to provoke harassment.” And it’s effective.
A Romanian court ruled that two women who claimed to have worked for Andrew and Tristan Tate freely had been “brainwashed.”
According to a professional psychologist’s assessment, they both suffered from trauma and were unaware that they were being taken advantage of.
Notwithstanding the two women’s assertions that they worked for the Tate brothers freely, the Romanian prosecutors saw them as victims of the two men.
The judges decided that they did not talk deliberately and had been indoctrinated via their exploitation after considering the clinical psychologist’s findings.
The two are accused of entrapping women and forcing them to labor in chat rooms for sexual entertainment.
According to Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend, he choked her during “hard sex” to the point that she passed out.
The lady, who will only be identified as Sophie for privacy reasons, said Tate struck her and got aggressive during intercourse.
The two met on Facebook, and according to Sophie, he first enchanted her. She set up to see him at his house in Bucharest after they had been corresponding for some time online, and shortly after, she was dating him.
She claims that he then started to question her about working for his webcam company and promised her that if she did, she would “earn a fortune.”
Even though she replied no, he would keep insisting, “If you love me, you would do it,” and Sophie said that over time, this made her begin to wonder if “maybe he’s right.”
She said that she felt forced and was afraid of losing him if she objected.
She said Tate would take half of her earnings, or around £800, for her six hours of labor.
Sophie said that over time, Tate grew increasingly domineering and threatened to “fine” her if she left the house without his consent.
There was considerable contention… He pulled me up against the wall and gave me a heavy smack, saying “you w***e,” thereafter, she said.
She said that he ultimately become aggressive, relished having sex with her in a harsh manner, and would choke her until she once blacked out.
He is “extremely deceptive,” she said, adding, “He has no empathy at all.” He is a total narcissist; that is who he is.
I don’t believe he is emotionally capable of loving anybody or anything, not even his family or his brother – there is nothing.
But she said, “I don’t feel like a victim — all of the decisions I took were of my [own] free will. It’s extremely tough.”
“He didn’t put me in a bag, dump me in the back of a truck, and drive me there,” the speaker said.
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