According to a new report, women working for accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate wore permanent tattoos ‘belonging to Tate’ – as it emerged the influencer had in fact been kicked off the UK edition of ‘Big Brother” in 2016 because he is investigating for rape.
The disturbing tattoos were seen in sex cam videos as part of the imprisoned influencer’s operation in Romania, which investigators believe was a violence-based sex trafficking gang operation, police sources told The Times of London.
The inking was found on Romanian workers – and the 22-year-old American accused Tate of raping her last year, sparking the initial investigation and raid in April, according to the British newspaper.
The phrase matches the inflammatory comments the US-born influencer has repeatedly made claiming that women belong to men – and owe them a cut of the money they make from porn.
“It’s not about being property, it’s about her owning him, and the private parts of her body are his because they’re in a relationship,” Tate said. said Barstool Sports’ in July.
“And if she wants to sell them, he has an interest in those parts of her body,” he said of the girls on sex cam sites like OnlyFans.
But that wouldn’t apply to male porn stars, he said, “because I think the women belong to the man.”
One of Tate’s business partners, Sebastian Vieru, felt that the inks of Tate’s name were unremarkable, comparing him to women proudly tattooing their boyfriends’ names.
In August this year, Tate reposted a photo of a model named Liv Magre who appeared to show her name tattooed on her behind, although more recent photos appearing to show it were not a permanent tattoo.
Vieru also told the UK Times that allegations that her boyfriend forced women to have sex must have been a lie as he was a ladies’ man who often went to nightclubs with “20, 30 beautiful girls”.
“When you have 100 girls of your own, you don’t need to force a woman to do anything,” he told the British newspaper.
Tate’s now-shuttered sex cam operation was a “perfectly legal business,” said Vieru, who The Times only said was Tate’s partner in “other businesses.”
Romanian police, however, arrested Tate, 36, his brother, Tristan, 34, and two “Tate’s Angels” – one of his girlfriends, Georgiana Naghel, an ex-cop named Luana Radu in reports – accusing them of sex trafficking.
Prosecutors said the four “appeared to have created an organized criminal group for the purpose of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content” which “earned significant sums of money”.
Tate’s attorney, Eugen Vidineac, said they “deny all allegations, and want to cooperate with prosecutors and declare their innocence.”
He added: “They deny any exploitation of women.”
Tate had moved his operation to Romania in 2017 – while he was still under investigation for a 2015 rape in the UK, according to a Vice News investigation. The case, which Tate has categorically denied, was dropped in 2019 without charge.
However, this years-long investigation was also the real reason the self-help guru was kicked out of the UK version of reality TV show ‘Big Brother’ in 2016, the company has admitted. production of the show at the point of sale.
Days after Tate’s first appearance on the show, Hertfordshire Police alerted the show’s producers to the ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse made by at least two British cam girls.
It was only then that the police “started to take it seriously because they were like ‘he’s on TV, we have to get him out,'” said one of the British accusers, under the pseudonym “Sally”.
The show’s production company told Vice that it “undertook an extensive consultation process” during which Tate was “closely watched at all times” as he appeared in hot tubs and kissed people. other candidates.
When Tate was launched seven days later, the show said it was because of “information that came to light” – which until now was mistakenly assumed to be a video of him whipping a sex partner.
Sally told Vice she turned herself in to police after being repeatedly abused by Tate, alleging he hit her on the first day of her job as a 20-year-old sex cam girl. years old – then had strangled her at least 5 times.
She also said she saw him strangle other women on at least 10 occasions, as well as rape another girl, who also spoke under the pseudonym “Helen”.
Sally claimed that Tate even had a poster in its UK headquarters saying, “If there’s a problem, if there’s a problem / Big Tate won’t wait, smack a female dog.”
Sally alleged that Tate threatened to “beat” her if she turned herself in to the police, which she and Helen did.
However, the case was dismissed four years later, in July 2019, without any charges.
“In this case, we carefully reviewed all of the evidence provided by the police regarding each complainant and concluded that it did not pass our legal test, and that there was no realistic prospect of conviction,” said the UK Crown Prosecution Service at Vice.
Tate flatly denied the women’s allegations in a message from jail sent by his lawyer.
“They wanted money because I fired them,” Tate told Vice.
“The police understood after the investigation that I was innocent and the police found messages from the girls’ phones where they were talking to each other and planning to lie about me,” he said.
Sally and Helen said he was referring to their discussions about whether or not to report him to the police. Prosecutors would only say “there were a number of evidentiary issues that led us to conclude that our legal test was not met.”
Before the investigation was closed, Tate had moved to Romania – saying in a since-deleted video that “probably 40% of the reason” he moved there is that it would be easier to evade charges of rape, the guard said.
“I’m not a rapist, but I like the idea of being able to do what I want. I like being free,” he reportedly said.
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