Andrew Tate: Influencer threatened workers with violence, victim claims

An alleged unfortunate successful the lawsuit against online influencer Andrew Tate appears to person told prosecutors that she was forced to gain a minimum of €10,000 (£9,000) a period connected societal media platforms, nether the menace of carnal violence.

The testimony, which appears successful a leaked tribunal papers seen by the BBC, says "the alleged unfortunate continued moving to a strict schedule… staying unrecorded connected TikTok for 12 hours with lone a five-minute break", with Mr Tate's manager "forcing her to gain a minimum of €10,000 a period and threatening to bushed her if she didn't execute her job".

The papers besides outlines the witness's fearfulness that the radical would people intimate videos and photos of her if she tried to quit, arsenic she says they did successful the lawsuit of different woman.

Andrew Tate and his member Tristan are being held successful preventive custody successful Romania portion constabulary analyse allegations of quality trafficking and rape, which some men deny.

Two Romanian women and adjacent associates of theirs, Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu, are besides being held alongside them.

The leaked papers from the Romanian court, which contains much elaborate allegations than publically disposable tribunal statements, besides describes debts being utilized arsenic "a signifier of intelligence coercion" by the group.

"So-called 'fines' were imposed by the defendants if the girls did not station connected OnlyFans," the papers claims, with 1 witnesser owing "at that time, the sum of €4,000."

In a abstracted portion of testimony, different witnesser describes moving connected the TikTok and OnlyFans platforms for respective months successful 2021 without a contract, connected a docket acceptable by 1 of the defendants, saying that she was allowed to support 50% of her earnings, with the remaining 50% divided betwixt the Tate brothers and their alleged manager.

She besides alleges she was not allowed to permission the determination unless accompanied.

Some of the alleged victims "den[y] immoderate signifier of exploitation by the 4 defendants", the tribunal says, but "these statements bash not bespeak reality, as... the victims of quality trafficking bash not ever recognise the information that they person been enslaved and exploited".

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Prosecutors judge that Andrew Tate utilized "the lover-boy method" of recruiting women, appearing to connection them the accidental of a superior and committed relationship, earlier coercing them to nutrient pornographic worldly for online sites.

The defendants are owed to stay successful custody until 27 February. No charges person yet been brought against them.