In July, Andrew and Tristan Tate filed a civil lawsuit in a Florida court against one of their accusers, stemming from a Romanian criminal case which saw them arrested on suspicion of human trafficking in Romania last December.
In the lawsuit, the brothers claim that the human trafficking assertions which were the foundation of their initial arrest were concocted by two women with a history of fabulism. Yesterday, attorneys for the Tates filed a series of exhibits which they say prove those claims. One of the exhibits, described as “false statements to the Romanian government,” is a copy of a Victim Statement given by the accuser to the Romanian Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).
DIICOT arrested the Tates on allegations of trafficking, rape, and forming an organized criminal group. According to the Romanian authorities, six victims were “coerced into performing sexual acts … [and] housed in buildings outside Bucharest,” reported the New York Times. “On two separate occasions in March, one of the suspects used violence and psychological pressure to rape a victim, prosecutors said.”
In the statement, the woman claims that she met Tristan Tate in November 2021 concurrently on Reddit and a dating website. She soon met up with Tate at a conference in Miami that December. The first time they had sex, the statement claims, Tristan strangled...
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