Leaked texts show Andrew Tate’s alleged trafficking tactics to exploit woman: report

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.”

In other messages, Tate also spoke generally about some of the so-called characteristics he looks for in a woman.

“Give me an average moron with no skills who’s blind loyal,” he allegedly wrote. “I judge basically all females by loyalty. If they’re loyal. And they won’t leave. In the end they’ll do everything you want.”

The woman at the center of the messages, who is among the seven females that Romanian prosecutors have detailed in their case against Tate, has repeatedly denied being one of his alleged victims.

Tate, too, has denied the sex trafficking allegations against him.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Tate said the release of the “purported screenshots” was part of a smear campaign against him and his brother.

The spokesperson added that the female referenced in the messages “has publicly and categorically refuted any mistreatment from the brothers.”

“While all statements from the alleged victims, incriminating the brothers, have been unquestioningly accepted by the public, the evidence supporting the brothers’ innocence has not been given the same fair treatment,” the spokesperson said. 

Romanian prosecutors have accused Tate, his brother and two Romanian women of forming a criminal group in 2021 “in order to commit the crime of human trafficking” in that country, the US and Britain.

Investigators say the seven alleged victims were recruited with false declarations of love, but then forced to take part in pornography.

The women were allegedly controlled by “intimidation, constant surveillance” and claims they were in debt, according to the indictment.

The British-American brothers were initially jailed for three months in the wake of their December arrest before being released to house arrest in March pending trial.

Prosecutors also confiscated the Tates’ assets, including 15 luxury cars, luxury watches and about $3 million in cryptocurrency.