Andrew Tate's biggest legal challenge will be his own statements on rape and exploitation, lawyer sa
- Andrew Tate is currently in jail as part of a human-trafficking and rape investigation in Romania.
- A lawyer told Insider his biggest legal challenge is going to be the things he himself has said.
- Tate's has willingly described his tactics recruiting women, and came close to endorsing rape.
The biggest challenge Andrew Tate faces in his human-trafficking case is likely Tate himself, a Romanian lawyer told Insider.
Stefan Loredan, who practices in Dubai but has followed Tate's case closely, predicted that Tate's own statements describing recruiting women for his webcam business would be a huge challenge should he go on trial.
Romanian police are investigating Tate, his brother Tristan, and two Romanian women. The group are accused of forming a criminal group that manipulated women into making porn for their online business.
All four are being held in jail until the end of January after a judge denied their appeal to be released. Tate's lawyer has said he and Tristan are innocent.
Loredan told Insider that Tate had hired one of the best defense attorneys in the country, Loredan, but may still struggle.
Tate's public persona, he said, will mean it's "very hard for the lawyers to defend them."
"The problems are themselves," Loredan said of those charged. "It's mainly because they've been incriminating themselves through the social-media content that they've been creating in the last two to three years."
Here's some of the claims Tate has made about his lifestyle and businesses.
Tate said he moved to Romania because of lax rape laws.
In a now-deleted video on Tate's YouTube channel, he explained moving to Romania from the UK as a response to "the #MeToo era."
Referring to women making historic claims of sexual-assault, he said "none of this garbage flies" in his new home.
"This is probably 40% of the reason I moved to Romania," he said. "I'm not a fucking rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want. I like being free."
He said men living in "any western country" have decided to live somewhere that "any woman ... at some point in the future can destroy your life."
He said he loves corruption.
Tate appeared on The Fellas Podcast in August, 2022 and explained further why he wanted to live in Romania.
"I like Eastern Europe as a whole because corruption is far more accessible," he said. "I find it offensive that a police officer in England will stop me and refuse to take a bribe."
He said women who have been raped should 'bear some responsibility.'
In October 2017, Tate went on a Twitter rant about the women alleging sexual harassment and assault by Harvey Weinstein. He said the women could not call themselves victims if they "exchanged sex for opportunity."
"If you put yourself in a position to be raped, you must bare some responsibility," he said. "I'm not saying it's OK you got raped. No woman should be abused regardless. However with sexual assault they want to put zero blame on the victim whatsoever."
He then compared women to leaving "a million dollars outside my front door," saying he had no sympathy for women who went out and drank alcohol, then got sexually assaulted.
"Take some personal responsibility," he said. "This zero blame game is damaging to the female cause as a whole. Protect yourselves."
Tate has been candid about manipulating women to join his webcam business.
On his website, which no longer exists but screenshots of which have been widely shared, Tate wrote that 50% of his employees were his girlfriend at one time and "none were in the adult entertainment industry before they met me."
On the site, he explained a process that closely resembles the loverboy method — a human trafficking technique which Romanian authorities named when announcing his arrest.
"My job was to meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, test if she's quality, get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on webcam so we could become rich together," it reads.
He also bragged about how to keep women under control.
While giving his viewers tips on how to start their own webcam businesses, Tate said they had to be having sex with all the women they employed.
"You cannot sit and do a purely professional business relationship with a female, it doesn't work," Tate said. "If you're not fucking the girl, she is fucking someone else. And that other person she's fucking is going have the control over her mind as opposed to you."
Tate went on to say he would look for girls on social media, and was "ruthless" in sending DMs, and slept with "four or five girls" per week.
Tate boasted about using women to recruit others.
In the same video, Tate explained how he would use women to recruit others.
"I'm going to find the girl, and I'm going to bring her to you, and you're going to tell her how good it is to work for me, and how great it is to do this webcamming thing and how smart we are," Tate said.
He said he would go on dates with women for the sole purpose of getting them to start making content for his webcam business.
"I don't mention webcam until after I've had sex with the girl," he said.
In one video, Tate said he would not let women leave his house.
Tate said that women are "not allowed out" when they stay at his house in one video clip that resurfaced recently. He talked about his jet-setting lifestyle, and how he has large groups of women staying at his home.
"I'm all over the place, so I end up with all these chicks just stuck in the house, sitting there, bored, completely in love with me," he said. "And of course they don't go out. They're not allowed out."
He said people might assume the women can go out with their friends when he's not there, but that was wrong.
"You don't go to the club with your friends," he said. "I don't know what kind of bitch-ass dude is letting his chicks go to the club without him. No. You stay in the house, you don't go nowhere. No restaurants, no clubs, nothing."
Tate has also told stories of approaching girls as young as 16.
Tate and his brother Tristan had a discussion on their podcast about Tate messaging a 16-year-old girl. When she responded telling Tate her age, he said he didn't care.
After denigrating the girl's looks, Tate said he had sex with her.
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