Andrew Tate served legal papers by 4 UK accusers, including one he allegedly texted: ‘I love raping you’
Andrew Tate has been served legal papers by four UK women accusing him of sex attacks — including one who claims to have a text from him boasting: “I love raping you.”
The legal firm McCue Jury & Partners posted photos showing a letter of claim being delivered Wednesday to Tate’s home in Romania, where he remains under house arrest pending charges of rape and human trafficking.
The legal letter details the allegations by four UK accusers and “has put him on notice that legal proceedings will be initiated at the High Court in London in the coming weeks,” the firm said.
“This is a major step in the UK survivors of Tate’s alleged crimes campaign for justice, by taking their fight straight to Tate’s door,” said managing partner Matthew Jury.
“The legal papers delivered to Tate today lay bare the gravity and the full weight of the accusations against him.”
The four accusers — all anonymous — include a woman who last week accused the incendiary influencer of raping her by continuing to have sex after choking her unconscious.
At least some of the women reported the alleged attacks to UK police eight years ago, Jury confirmed Friday.
“The claimants gave their evidence to the police, which included items such as digital text messages sent from Tate saying ‘I love raping you,'” the law firm said.
While UK prosecutors never pressed charges, “we do not really know why the decision was made,” the legal firm said — denying claims from Tate’s camp that it was because “there was ‘no evidence to support the allegations.'”
“This is entirely false,” the law firm stressed.
The accusers — calling themselves “four survivors of Andrew Tate’s violent and misogynistic ideology” — also started an online crowdfunding effort to raise the equivalent of about $64,000 for the legal battle.
As of Friday morning, they had raised about $27,000.
“We want to show that we, as survivors, can stand up to him and that his despicable actions have consequences,” they wrote.
“Because he was not held accountable when we raised the alarm, so much more damage has been done.
“That’s why we want to bring a civil case against Andrew Tate in the hope that it will prompt a criminal investigation in the UK,” they said.
After the papers were served, one of the accusers said, “It feels good to finally be taking a positive step forward” after “such a long fight for justice.”
“While this experience has been extremely traumatic for us, we have taken strength in the fact that we have decided to take a stand, and are not alone,” she said.
The accusers’ fundraiser stressed from the outset that Tate “has denied these allegations and previous allegations of this nature.”
A spokesman for the influencer repeated that claim this week, telling Rolling Stone magazine: “Andrew Tate categorically denies the veracity of the accusations brought by the lawyers of the anonymous women in the UK.”
“We will not give in to these acts of intimidation,” the rep said.
Tate, 36, has also denied the accusations against him in Romania, a claim repeated by one of his lawyers when the charges were raised to more serious human trafficking ones this week.
“Human traffickers are the scum of the earth and deserve the death penalty. Falsely accusing someone of human trafficking undercuts the importance of ending the practice and ruins innocent lives,” attorney Joseph McBride tweeted.
“This is why I represent Andrew and [his brother and co-accused] Tristan Tate.”
Tate also railed against the accusations in tweets from house arrest in Bucharest.
“Men. If we keep letting the establishment destroy any man who speaks up with imaginary sex crime lies … How will our voices ever be head?” he asked Friday.
He also likened the claims against him to the rape accusations against UFC legend Conor McGregor, which he suggested would make the fighter a “human trafficker” too.
“No men with money are safe. They’re coming for all of us,” he tweeted conspiratorially.