Andrew Tate admitted women staying at his luxury mansion weren’t allowed to leave, telling them in a video that has now resurfaced: “You’re not going anywhere”.
Disgraced social media influencer Tate, 36, bragged about his apparent playboy lifestyle in the YouTube video, which shows him flanked by young women in bikinis boarding private jets and smoking cigars.
And women who worked for him in Romania were reportedly branded with tattoos reading “Owned by Tate.”
Former kickboxer Tate, who has become known in recent years for his attitude towards women, was arrested in Romania on December 29 as part of an investigation into alleged rape, human trafficking and organized crime.
Andrew Tate (pictured) admitted women staying at his luxury mansion weren’t allowed to leave, telling them in a now-recovered video: “You’re not going anywhere”.
Tate (centre), 36, bragged about his obvious playboy lifestyle in the YouTube video, which shows him surrounded by young women in bikinis, boarding private jets and smoking cigars
Tate claimed that women are “stuck” in his home if they live there while he flies internationally
Police confirmed his whereabouts after he posted a bizarre video to Twitter – in which he hit back at Greta Thunberg for her “little D*** energy” jibe – that showed a pizza box from a local restaurant.
In the resurfaced clip, Tate claims women are “stuck” at his home if they live there while he flies internationally.
Tate said: “If you’re a real G, you’re here, you’re there, you’re everywhere. You go to Warsaw, fuck Dubai, Miami… I’m everywhere.
“With all these chicks just stuck in the house, sitting there bored and totally in love with me.
“And of course they don’t go out. You are not allowed out.”
He said that the women in his house were forbidden to go to the club with their boyfriends and berated ‘b***ha** guys’ who would ‘let his girls go to the club without me’.
‘No. You stay in the house. you’re not going anywhere No restaurants, no clubs, nothing,” Tate added.
Police in Romania have been investigating former kickboxing champion Tate and his brother Tristan since April last year.
The investigation began after a 22-year-old woman told police she was being held against her will last year and culminated in officers last month raiding his mansion and taking him and his younger brother Tristan into custody.
Andrew Tate is escorted by police officers in Bucharest December 29 after being arrested as part of a rape and human trafficking investigation
Women who work for Tate, pictured here on a boat in an image shared on social media, are said to have been tattooed with the words ‘owned by Tate’.
Police sources told the Times that the woman and other alleged victims were tattooed with the words “owned by Tate.”
Romanian authorities claim the 36-year-old kept six women under “house arrest” at his compound “around the clock like prisoners”.
A legal source previously told the Mail: “The abuse was physical and emotional. They were not allowed to leave the house without security and were guarded day and night.”
They added that the women were “deprived of their freedom and persecuted everywhere”.
It is alleged that Tate forced the women to create pornographic content against their will.
He was arrested in Bucharest on December 29, along with his brother Tristan and their assistants Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu, on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized criminal group.
Officers from the city’s organized crime unit searched the property and took the quartet into custody.
A day later, a Romanian judge gave police permission to detain Andrew Tate for 30 days while the investigation continues.
Tate has denied all allegations, and his representative, Avocat Vidineac Eugen Constatin, said they would appeal the judge’s decision.
In a ruling released Thursday, a judge said prosecutors had shown Tate has a “disregard for women in general, which he perceives only as a means to easily make big gains.”
None of the four have been formally charged.
Prosecutors allege that Tate recruited the women on social media platforms and lured them to Bucharest by falsely professing his love and intention to marry them.
The tactic is known as the “lover boy” method, used by criminals to recruit victims suffering from economic hardship by seducing them with gifts and promises of a better life abroad.
The six victims were forced to participate in videos on adult content platform Only Fans and video-sharing app TikTok, with the two brothers reportedly pocketing all proceeds.
“We have information – based on what they have said on social media – that one of the girls was taking up to €50,000 (£44,350) a month,” the source said. “They didn’t get any money from what they earned.”
Among the women are one American, one Moldovan and four Romanians.
Sebastian Vieru, who is a partner in some of Tate’s other deals, has denied the allegations, saying the sex trade is “completely legal” in Romania.
“When you have 100 girls of your own, you don’t have to force a woman into anything,” he said.
It was recently revealed that Tate had previously been investigated by UK police over rape and throttling allegations.
Tate first came to prominence when he appeared on the TV show Big Brother in 2016, but was removed from the program after a video surfaced online that appeared to show him attacking a woman with a belt – a clip that which he claimed had been edited.
It is alleged that Tate (pictured on a private jet) forced the women to create pornographic content against their will
He has since gained further notoriety online for a series of comments about women, including suggesting they “have some responsibility” if they are attacked – an incident that led to his being banned from Twitter.
In one video, Tate advised men who were accused of cheating by their girlfriends to “hit her with a machete, punch her in the face and grab her by the neck.” Shut up, b***h.’
Born in Chicago, Illinois but raised in Luton, Bedfordshire, Tate is also well known through his various business ventures.
He ran a website called “Hustler’s University” where members pay a monthly fee to receive instruction on dropshipping and cryptocurrency. Tate’s followers earned a commission for signing up new members, leading critics to call it a “pyramid scheme.” The marketing program ended this month.
He and his brother Tristan are said to have set up a webcam business in Romania, where young models told sob stories to unsuspecting male viewers. Although Tate told the Sunday Mirror that the site was “a total scam”, Tate claims to have made millions from it.
But it’s his outspoken videos, popular with many young men, that Tate is best known for. Clips on Instagram under the Andrew Tate hashtag have garnered more than 11.6 billion views, and clips on TikTok have been viewed more than 13 billion times.
In his farewell message last year, Tate said the “attacks” on him were “disguised under the virtue of caring for women”.
He added, “None of these people attacking me care about women, none of them donate to women’s organizations, none of them donate to charity like me, none of them help anyone like me.”
Tate said that he has a “unique point of view” and that he welcomes people to challenge him and that he “has no problem with not being liked”.
However, he said he has “a problem” with people taking clips of his videos and reporting them “out of context” and “removing the tonality” and with people “accusing him of illegality”.
He claimed he’d become the “most Googled man alive” and a “victim of his own success” because it led people to want to find “every little clip” they could “blow up,” to be “as controversial” as possible” – because “they want the views for themselves”.