Andrew Tate: Chats in 'War Room' suggest dozens of women groomed

Evidence that dozens of women were groomed into online enactment enactment by members of influencer Andrew Tate's "War Room" radical has been uncovered by the BBC.

Leaked interior chat logs place 45 imaginable victims betwixt March 2019 and April 2020 but the full fig is apt to beryllium higher.

The texts besides look to amusement the techniques utilized by War Room members to exploit imaginable victims.

Mr Tate denies immoderate wrongdoing and says helium is prepared to support his innocence.

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A connection issued by his property serviceman said the BBC's findings correspond "another brazen effort to contiguous one-sided, unverified" allegations against him.

The 36-year-old erstwhile kickboxer has been charged successful Romania with rape and quality trafficking.

On 4 August helium was released from location apprehension pending his trial. Last week details of graphic grounds compiled by Romanian prosecutors were revealed by the BBC.

His member Tristan and 2 associates besides look charges. All person denied the allegations.

The BBC's latest probe - outlined successful the documentary Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World? - centres connected 12,000 pages of encrypted Telegram messages sent by hundreds of War Room members.

However the BBC's entree to the logs was constricted to those sent implicit a play of 13 months - truthful the full fig of women perchance targeted and exploited by the group, which was formed successful 2019, could beryllium overmuch higher.

Mr Tate says the War Room - which costs $8,000 (£6,300) a twelvemonth to articulation - is simply a web of almighty men and those who privation to larn from them.

"The War Room promotes self-discipline, information and assurance gathering whilst giving members entree to thousands of professionals from astir the satellite who promote idiosyncratic work and accountability, emphasising the value of taking ownership of your choices and actions," the connection issued by Mr Tate reads.

However, the leaked online chats bespeak the War Room teaches members done its alleged "PhD" people - the initials basal for "Pimpin' Hoes Degree" - however to groom women into enactment work.

Members are instructed by immoderate of the War Room enactment - known arsenic "generals" - to romantically seduce, emotionally manipulate and socially isolate women earlier luring them into performing connected webcams - often taking each oregon astir of the wealth they make.

While astir media attraction astir the organisation has focused connected the Tate brothers, the BBC's probe recovered that a self-proclaimed "wizard" who goes by the alias "Iggy Semmelweiss" appears to beryllium the War Room's existent person and intelligence driving force.

The messages - exclusively obtained by the BBC - suggest unit against women was taught and encouraged by immoderate of Mr Tate's "generals".

Among them were photographs of a pistillate bent implicit with superior bruising and cuts to her backside and the tagline "Who me?".

Another station sent by a starring subordinate who uses the alias "Joe Lampton" described however helium reacted to a ailment from a pistillate who worked for him. "I took her keyboard and deed her successful the caput with it," the connection read. "She went into the country and worked 7 hours without immoderate break."

ANDREW TATE: THE MAN WHO GROOMED THE WORLD?

Reporter Matt Shea investigates the influencer and his "War Room".

Our probe has recovered that arsenic of August 2022 determination were 434 War Room members astir the world. While not each members of the War Room volition enactment connected its teachings, we were capable to place galore of the women perchance groomed by members of the group, positive a further 29 women who were targeted implicit the aforesaid period.

The BBC spoke to 2 women who said they were exploited by War Room members. Although they unrecorded thousands of miles apart, their stories bespeak the men were pursuing the aforesaid tactics.

Both women said they initially believed they were successful a romanticist narration with these men - who past began gradually manipulating them into enactment work, a strategy known arsenic the "loverboy method".

"He utilized enactment a batch to manipulate me," says "Maria" - not her existent sanction - from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The women besides accidental they were subjected to violence, isolated from friends and forced to execute menial tasks to show their subservience.

"Amanda" - besides a pseudonym - who lives connected the westbound seashore of the US, says she gave distant up to 80% of what she earned astatine immoderate 1 clip - a full of $95,000 - to 2 War Room members.

Amanda told the BBC she was slapped crossed the look by a "general" who exploited her and showed america photographs of bruising. She said: "He had power of everything."

According to the leaked chats, War Room members look to judge they are performing "Pavlovian conditioning" connected women - "this is however you bid dogs", 1 leaked connection reads. Instructions are typically provided by "generals".

Their grooming method includes "tests of submission" specified arsenic getting women to tattoo the War Room members' initials connected their bodies.

Eli, a whistleblower who says helium spent 2 years arsenic the Tate organisation's caput of income and marketing, told the BBC: "The War Room is each astir you getting women that service you successful your life." Eli says helium was "brainwashed" by the Tate group, which helium describes arsenic a "cult".

Eli besides described the relation of "Iggy Semmelweiss" wrong the War Room. Asked who was truly successful complaint of the group, the whistleblower said: "Iggy is astatine the top."

"Iggy's" existent sanction is Miles Sonkin. Born successful Chicago, Illinois, successful 1961, helium is simply a erstwhile subordinate of astatine slightest 2 alleged cults, helium developed an involvement successful the acold close successful the 2000s and appears to person met Andrew Tate astir 2018. Soon after, Mr Tate started selling his ain courses and the War Room was established successful 2019.

Mr Sonkin sends each caller members of the War Room a speechmaking database and a manifesto outlining the group's agenda.

When confronted by the BBC extracurricular his location successful Los Angeles, California, Mr Sonkin did not comment.

However, it is Andrew Tate - with his 7.6 cardinal Twitter followers and legions of fans who privation to emulate his manner - who remains the group's focal point, contempt his upcoming trial.

In the statement, his spokeswoman said the BBC's findings "not lone contiguous mendacious accusations, but insult the monolithic assemblage that considers Andrew Tate a beingness changing affirmative force". The connection adds that Mr Tate "is prepared to instrumentality each indispensable ineligible actions to support his innocence and clasp accountable those liable for defamatory claims".

The BBC's probe suggests his fame is being utilized to merchantability a method of maltreatment to men astir the world.

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