LONDON − Online influencer Andrew Tate strangled two women in Britain – one of whom accuses him of rape, whipping her with a belt and pointing a gun in her face – so often and with so much force that they developed red spots in their eyes that indicated bleeding capillaries, according to details of the allegations obtained by USA TODAY ahead of a court hearing on the case in London on April 15.
The allegations form part of a civil suit brought by four British women against the former professional kickboxer for sexual offenses including rape, assault and coercive control. All four women accuse Tate of choking them, including during forced and consensual sexual encounters. The allegations pertain to when Tate was living in England and in the early stages of launching an adult webcam business, from 2013 to 2015.
“I’m just debating whether to rape you or not,” Tate said to one of the women who is bringing the suit, according to the court filings. Tate had his hand around her neck as he posed the question. He later raped her, the filings say.
Tate, 38, denied all the allegations in the case, according to court filings.
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The suit was filed in June last year. Tate is not expected to attend the hearing. But specific details about the allegations against Tate by the women have not previously been revealed. They come as Tate and his brother Tristan, whose exhortations to get rich quick, drive fast cars and aggressively treat women as property are followed by millions of people online, face several lawsuits connected to how they allegedly abuse and exploit women.
The brothers deny all the allegations against them brought in a mixture of civil and criminal courts. Tristan Tate is not a defendant in the civil case brought by the four women.
One of the women in Britain who says she developed petechiae − red spots in her eyes from burst capillaries, which some doctors say can be a side effect of asphyxia − alleged that Andrew Tate threatened her almost daily in 2015 while she was working for his webcam sex business. On one occasion, according to the court filings, he grabbed her by her throat, pinned her up against a wall and pointed a gun at her while saying, “I’m a boss” and “You’re going to do as I say, or there’ll be hell to pay.”
On another occasion, she alleged, Tate assaulted her with a belt that struck her on her buttocks and the back of her legs. She alleged Tate also strangled her while he raped her and that he would routinely choke her or grab her by her throat if she spoke back to him or said anything he did not like.
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A second woman, who also worked for Tate’s webcam business but said she was having consensual sex with Tate at the time, also developed petechiae around her eyes, according to the court records. She said Tate strangled her “approximately every other day.” Once, she said, she “nearly blacked out.”
In written testimony submitted to Britain’s High Court, Tate called the allegations “gross fabrications” and a “pack of lies.” In the court filings and public statements, Tate said any sexual intercourse with the women was consensual. He said allegations that he strangled the women, beat one of them with a belt and threatened her with a gun were “made up.”
In a statement, Andrew Ford, a lawyer for Tate, said the women’s allegations, including that Tate had a gun, “are vehemently denied and will be fully contested in court.” He said the allegations brought by the women were previously investigated by police some years ago and prosecutors had opted not to charge Tate with any crime.
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A British court has already confiscated, separate court filings show, about $2.5 million from bank accounts in Britain associated with the Tates. A British court ruled they failed to pay taxes on their adult entertainment businesses that yielded $30 million in revenue. The Tates are facing a separate criminal investigation in Britain in connection with allegations of rape and trafficking that date to between 2012 and 2015. Neither has been charged. In Romania, the brothers face allegations of human trafficking, money laundering and sex crimes.
The Tates hold U.S. and British citizenship. In March, one of Andrew Tate’s former girlfriends filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing him of sexual assault and battery, which he denies. When the brothers briefly traveled to the U.S. that same month after Romanian prosecutors lifted a travel ban on them in connection with the case there, Florida’s attorney general opened an investigation into the Tates that he characterized as “what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women around the world.”
The Tates recently traveled to the Middle East as they await the outcome of Romania’s criminal investigation. They had been under house arrest in Romania for that case, which includes allegations they lured women to Romania where they were allegedly sexually exploited, since their arrest in 2022. Once the case in Romania concludes, authorities have pledged to honor a British request to extradite them to face trial in Britain for the separate allegations of rape and human trafficking involving different women between 2012 and 2015.
It’s not immediately clear why Romania lifted its travel ban on the Tates.
Richard Grenell, a close advisor to President Donald Trump, told Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu during a security conference in Munich in February that he “remains interested in the fate of the Tate brothers.” Andrew Tate also appears to be popular with Trump’s sons and some of his supporters.
When asked about the Tates’ travel to Florida, Trump said: “I know nothing about that.”
“Spending $185,000 on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper,” Tate posted on social media platform X in late March as they left the U.S., first for Romania, then Dubai.
“Innocent men don’t run. They clear their name in court.”
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In the British civil suit, the two women who did not work for Andrew Tate’s webcam business were former girlfriends. One of these women is the one who said she was confronted by Tate’s musing about “whether to rape you or not.” She said that at points during the alleged assault Tate’s hands were placed so tightly around her neck that she was not able to speak. Tate, the filings alleged, repeatedly asked her during this particular episode, “Who do you belong to?”
All four women are seeking damages for assault, battery and “infliction of intentional harm.” Their identities have not been made public, which is in keeping with British law when it comes to sexual-offense cases, unless the complainants decide to wave their anonymity.
The women said that when they first met Tate he was polite and charming, even kind and caring. They said he boasted about his success and appeared to be wealthy, as evidenced by his luxury cars and designer clothes. They trusted him. He encouraged them to view him as a protector and confidante, not a predator. Over time, Tate changed, they allege. They allege he became controlling and ever more threatening, restricting their movements and access to food.
In a 2019 YouTube video, cited in the filings as evidence of Tate’s behavior, he says, “choke her so she can barely f—— breathe. Tell her she’s yours forever. They’re going to believe it. You can program them.”
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