Three women are planning to sue social media influencer Andrew Tate for damages over allegations he r@ped and abused them, according to a report by lodpost.com.
The women claim they suffered physical injury and psychological harm which has stopped them working or living a normal life for many years.
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The women, who worked as webcam models for Tate in Luton from 2013 onwards, alleged that they were abused, poorly paid and threatened in an attempt to stop them from going to the police. The women had made complaints to the police eight years ago, but they claim that detectives failed to investigate the allegations properly before dropping the case.
"To have seen Andrew Tate's rise in popularity and influence, while knowing who he is and what he has done, has been extremely difficult for those of us who were s£xually and physically abused by him.
We intend to prove in court that Andrew is abusive, coercive and controlling and that his public statements about women are nothing more than fantasy," said one of the women in a statement reported by lodpost.com.
Tate has denied the accusations and said through his legal team that the women "wanted money because I fired them." The women's lawyer, Matt Jury, said their allegations included r@pe, s£xual and physical assaults, including holding guns to women's heads, and allegations of the most awful behaviour towards women.
Hertfordshire police began investigating the women's allegations in 2015 and arrested Tate three times on suspicion of raping two women and assaulting a third. The case was abandoned four years later with no further action. The force apologised for delays in the investigation.
The three British women hope to raise funds to start their UK civil damages claim through crowdfunding, but also hope to spur Hertfordshire police into reopening the abandoned investigation.
Tate, a British-US citizen with 5.9 million Twitter followers, is currently under house arrest in Romania where police are investigating suspected human tr@fficking , r@pe and s£xual exploitation of women there. Tate's brother Tristan and two Romanian women face the same allegations and they deny all of them.
The spokesman for Andrew Tate said he vehemently denied the UK allegations and criticised the women and their lawyers for alerting them through the media and their use of crowdfunding.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it had reviewed carefully all the evidence provided by Hertfordshire police in its investigation in 2019 and found no realistic prospect of conviction.
lodpost.com has sought a direct response to the allegations from Andrew Tate himself but so far waiting for reply.
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