On Thursday, the Romanian police stormed the luxury building of Andrew Tate (34). They led the influencer and his brother Tristan Tate (34) away handcuffed. They are charged with kidnapping and rape. The deeds allegedly took place in their posh villa on the outskirts of Bucharest.
The siblings moved to Romania five years ago. Partly because the sentences for rape are more lax there than in, for example, the US or Great Britain. Tate once said it himself in an interview.
The Brit bought the house for seven million dollars, as he says. According to various media reports, the property should be 2000 square meters in size.
Kickboxing past
On Instagram, the Tates like to show off how luxurious they live. Expensive leather sofas, multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, a huge indoor and outdoor pool, a high-tech security room with multiple live surveillance cameras. There are several weapons and black coats in a display case. The glass in and around the house is bulletproof, writes the Daily Mail.
Andrew Tate’s kickboxing past shouldn’t be overlooked either. His world champion belt hangs on the wall. At the age of 19, the influencer started his martial arts career. Four years later, the Briton won his first championship and was considered number one in his division in Europe. After his second world title in 2013, he resigned. He keeps fit in his personal gym.
Another Instagram photo shows a wood-clad room with leather recliners and desk chairs. This seems to be the place where he smoked cigarettes against climate activist Greta Thunberg (19) in a video. To satisfy his smoking pleasure, he had his own cigar room built.
As a memento of their father, the two sons exhibited a chessboard. Her father, Emory Andrew Tate Jr., was an American chess champion who won more than 80 tournaments in his career. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 56.
There is also a giant parking lot in the property. 33 luxury carts are displayed around the villa. Among them would be a Bugatti Chiron worth CHF 5.2 million.
Women detained and forced to have sex
Another room protrudes from the ground 500 meters from the main building. Several women were found there in April during a police raid in April. Since then, the Romanian authorities have been investigating human trafficking and rape. Among other things, he would have held women and girls in apartments and forced them to have sex and act in porn films.
Tate finances his lavish life in part through his self-proclaimed “Hustlers University”, where he spread his questionable ideas about crypto and stock trading. Members had to recruit more, which is why the program is suspected to be a Ponzi scheme. After being banned from Tiktok and Meta, Tate decided to take the program offline over the summer. Tate allegedly owns several casinos in Romania.
Celebrity Net Worth, a website that calculates celebrity earnings, estimates Tate’s net worth at around $20 million. He himself says: “I am a billionaire.” He is now largely in police custody. The public prosecutor’s office submitted an application on Friday to extend the pre-trial detention by 30 days. (abbot)