WhatsApp message from Andrew Tate to a third accuser: “I loved raping you”

• According to Vice News, Andrew Tate sent a series of text messages about rape to a sexual assault accuser.

• They were part of the evidence collected by British police during their investigation into Tate between 2015 and 2019.

• Ultimately, the Crown Protection Service did not bring rape charges against Tate in 2019.

Vice World News published a series of messages on Wednesday in which misogynistic influencer and former kickboxer Andrew Tate appears to brag about raping a woman.

The text and voice messages published by the news agency came a day after Tate failed to secure his release from a Romanian prison while he and his brother were under investigation for sex trafficking.

According to Vice reports, Tate sent threatening letters to a woman who accused him of rape in 2013 after the incident, including some in which he said it was a “favor.”

“I love raping you,” Tate said in one of the texts shared with Vice. “Monsters are monsters. When you’re under my control, I do what I want.”

A Hertfordshire Police spokesman confirmed to Insider that Tate was arrested on this charge on December 17, 2015.

Tate was arrested earlier that year on allegations against two other women who had also spoken to Vice.

One accused him of rape, the other of assault and said he strangled her. He was arrested on July 18, 2015 on these charges, police confirmed to Insider.

British prosecutors did not file charges in any of the cases. The third accuser shared text messages that Tate allegedly sent her after the rape. She said she gave these messages to the police. Insider could not independently verify them.

The woman, who used the pseudonym Amelia, told Vice that she and Tate have known each other since 2009 and started dating in 2013. The first night she went to Tate’s apartment, she told the magazine that a switch flipped when she told him she didn’t want to have sex that night.

“I stood up, looked at him and said, ‘What’s going on?'” the woman told Vice. “The guy was laying there and said, ‘I’m trying to decide whether or not to rape you.'”

She told the outlet that Tate then strangled and raped her, calling her his property and asking, “Who do you belong to?”

In some of his videos, Tate made similar remarks, referring to women as men’s property and advocating violence against women in connection with infidelity.

Six months later, the woman reported the incident to police and in 2015 she was contacted by Hertfordshire police looking for evidence against Tate. At that point, she handed over her phone, which, according to Vice, contained text messages with Tate after the incident.

The Tate woman’s voice notes also had a macabre tone.

“Am I a bad person… because the less you liked it, the more I liked it,” Tate can be heard saying in one of the voice messages, according to Vice. He added that he wanted to “pin you down and make you do things you don’t like.”

The news painted a grim picture of the evening Amelia Vice had described.

“You didn’t like that I thought I could do whatever I wanted with you,” Tate said in a voice message provided to the outlet. “That’s it. I’m the smartest person on the damn planet.”

She told Vice that she never saw Tate in person again after he sent her a video of him smashing a baseball bat on his shin. According to Vice, he also sent her a voice message with the video.

“I’m one of the most dangerous men on the planet,” Tate said in the video, according to Vice. “Sometimes you forget how lucky you were to get fucked by me.”

Ultimately, prosecutors decided not to file charges against Tate in 2019, previously telling Insider that they were not prosecuting Tate because they saw “no realistic prospect of conviction.”

The spokesperson told Insider on Thursday that his statement had not changed in light of recent reports.

Tate’s attorney did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

According to Buzzfeed News, Andrew Tate has monetized his views through his paid video subscription program “Hustler University,” where he has amassed tens of millions of dollars and a legion of predominantly male followers.

Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women were arrested in December. The charges are related to a Romanian human trafficking and rape investigation. They are accused of exploiting women in the country to produce pornography. They are also accused of rape.

After losing an appeal on Tuesday, all four defendants will remain in custody until at least the end of January.

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