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It has been claimed that women who went to work for Andrew Tate in Romania were tattooed with the words “owned by Tate”.
Tate, who rose to fame in recent years for his attitude towards women, is alleged to have branded some of those who worked for his online sex business.
The social media influencer is currently behind bars in the Eastern European country as police investigate allegations that he was involved in rape and human trafficking at his luxury villa.
The investigation began after a 22-year-old woman told police she was held against her will last year and culminated when officers raided his villa last month and arrested him and his younger brother, Tristan.
Andrew Tate is seen being escorted by police officers in Bucharest on December 29 after being arrested as part of a rape and human trafficking investigation.
The women who work for Tate, pictured here on a boat in an image shared on social media, are alleged to have been tattooed with the words “owned by Tate.”
Law enforcement sources told the Times that the woman and other alleged victims were tattooed with the words “property of Tate.”
Romanian authorities allege the 36-year-old man kept six women under “24/7 house arrest as prisoners” in his compound.
A judicial source previously told the Mail: “The abuse was physical and emotional. They were not allowed to leave the house without security and were watched day and night.
They added that the women were “deprived of their liberty and followed everywhere.”
It is claimed that Tate forced women to create pornographic content against their will.
He was arrested with his brother Tristan and his assistants Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu in Bucharest on December 29 on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and formation of an organized crime group.
Officers from the city’s organized crime unit searched the property and arrested the foursome.
A day later, a Romanian judge authorized police to hold Andrew Tate in custody for 30 days while the investigation continues.
Tate has denied all the 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 that Tate has a “contemptuous attitude toward women in general, which he perceives only as a means to easy big profits.”
None of the four have been formally charged thus far.
Tate (pictured on a private jet) allegedly recruited dozens of women and held them under house arrest ‘as prisoners’ while forcing them to create pornographic content online.
Prosecutors allege that Tate recruited the women on social media platforms and lured them to Bucharest by falsely professing his love for and intention to marry them.
The tactics are known as the ‘lover child’ method, which criminals use to recruit victims in financial distress by luring 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 allegedly pocketing all the proceeds.
“We have information, based on what they said on social media, that one of the girls was earning up to 50,000 euros (£44,350) a month,” the source said. They did not give them money from what they earned.
The women include a US citizen, a Moldovan and four Romanian.
Sebastian Vieru, who is a partner in some of Tate’s other businesses, denied the allegations, saying the sex business was “perfectly legal” in Romania.
“When you have 100 girls of your own, you don’t have to force any woman to do anything,” she said.
It was recently revealed that Tate had previously been under investigation by police in the UK on allegations of rape and strangulation.
He was cast in Channel 4’s Big Brother in 2016 when the producers suddenly pulled him after they realized the police were investigating his online sex business.
Andrew Tate previously appeared on Big Brother in 2016, though he was pulled from the show after the producers found out he was being investigated by the police.
The Crown Prosecution Service ultimately refused to press charges when the investigation concluded four years later, read
The CPS told the Times: “We carefully reviewed all the evidence provided by the police … and came to the conclusion that it did not meet our legal test.”
Tate said through his lawyer: ‘They [the alleged victims] They wanted money because I fired them. The police understood after the investigation that I am innocent and found messages from the girls’ phones where they were… planning to lie about me.
In recent years, Tate has cultivated a devoted following on social media, where he brags about his affluent lifestyle. He also runs ‘Hustler’s Academy’, where 127,000, mostly men, pay him £39 a month for advice on getting rich and coping with life.
The former kickboxer previously said that he moved to Romania with his brother because they believed they would receive less attention from the police.
In many videos he criticizes women and gives his own unique advice to men on how to behave towards them.
He previously sparked controversy for saying, “If your girlfriend misbehaves, fuck her friends…if she even talks to a guy, she’s cheating on you.”
Shortly before his arrest, he was involved in a Twitter spat with climate activist Greta Thunberg, where he bragged about her sports car collection.
She responded by suggesting that Tate had ‘small penis energy’ and should ‘get a life’, prompting a bizarre video calling for a pizza box that was ‘not recycled’.
When he was arrested less than a day later, Thunberg responded by tweeting: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle pizza boxes.”