Chilling leaked WhatsApp chats show how Andrew Tate & enforcers threatened ‘kidnapped women & refused to let them leave’
ANDREW Tate refused to let women leave his Romanian compound alone, according to WhatsApp transcripts filed by prosecutors.
Misogynistic influencer Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested accused of sex trafficking and organised crime.
The duo remain in custody after being arrested last month, with an appeal hearing set for tomorrow.
It is claimed the duo would force women into creating sexual content to be sold online.
Romanian media now reports text message transcripts reveal how the Tates would control and threaten the women they allegedly held captive.
DIICOT - the Romanian organised crime investigation unit - included the messages in the file preparing against the Tates.
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The transcripts are allegedly from a WhatsApp group including Tate, his lieutenants and some of his alleged victims.
And in one exchange published by Romanian outlet , a "young woman" pleads with Tate to be allowed to be leave.
Tate then allegedly told her she would not go anywhere without one of his "trusted" employees.
"Why are you so cold to me?," she wrote.
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Tate replied: "Don't go out alone without telling me. Mall, supermarket, nowhere from now on."
She said: "I told you I wanted to go alone."
Tate then replied this was the unnamed woman's "last warning", according to the transcripts.
Other messages revealed in the document show Andrew Tate boasting that he is the leader of the operation in Romania.
"I heard you're the one running the Onlyfans and TikTok girls business?" a woman asked Tate.
He replied: "Tristan and Georgiana [Naghel] are there, but I lead them."
Naghel has been described as one of Tate's "angels" - and she was arrested alongside him and Tristan.
Other transcripts published by allegedly show Naghel threatening one of the women.
Another transcript shows messages from Luana Radu - another arrested "angel" of Tate's.
She appears to berate one of the victims for complaining they are too tired to work.
Tate and his brother are being held in a "hellhole" Romanian jail cell until the end of January as prosecutors announced they were being remanded in custody for 30 days.
The Tate brothers will also appeal against the seizure of some of their belongings - including 11 flash cars - in a court appearance tomorrow.
They are also expected to appear in a Bucharest court to have their appeals heard contesting a judge's decision to extend their arrest warrants to 30 days.
Tate appeared to deny the accusations, suggesting after his arrest he had been captured by agents of "The Matrix".
"The Matrix" seems to be a term used to Tate to refer to the establishment who be believes are out to get him.
The Tates lawyer Eugen Vidineac also gave a lengthy interview to Romanian outlet Gandul in which he reiterated the brothers denial of any wrongdoing and protested their innocence.
He revealed that the Tates both children in Romania.
And he claimed social media posts by the brothers should not be used against them because online they are portraying "characters".
"We live in a reality of 2023 in which various people promote themselves, as characters, on social media, promoting an image, a product, an idea, a current," he said.
But he clarified that the Tate's online presence is not "necessarily fake, in its entirety".
ontroversial Tate initially gained fame after a short-lived appearance on Big Brother.
He was dumped from the reality show after alleged footage of him beating a woman emerged online.
Since then he has sparked revulsion and outrage with a wave of content online.
Washington DC-born Tate was accused of spreading hate towards women as he built his profile.
The influencer was banned from Twitter in 2017 for violating its terms of service with his controversial comments.
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He has previously referred to women as "property" and said they should bear "some responsibility" if they are sexually assaulted.
In August, Tate was banned from a range of other social media sites - only to then be reinstated on Twitter after the company was taken over by Elon Musk.
