Former kickboxer Andrew Tate recently faced backlash on Twitter. Tate was detained by Romanian authorities on suspicion of human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized crime group, according to Reuters. 6 injured individuals were previously identified who were sexually exploited by the organized criminal group.
Andrew Tate is huge trouble
Neighbors of the controversial star, high-security compound told the Times of London that during the summer, hordes of 18- and 19-year-old men began showing up there, where women worked around-the-clock shifts producing porn videos.
“There were groups arriving three or four times a week, sometimes there were three taxis a day,” a neighbor said of the misogynist’s mecca, which offered supposed instruction on how to get rich quickly, outside the capital city, Bucharest.
“They were young men. They say they were attending the Hustlers University,” the local said.
A neighbor also said:
“They would get lost and ask how they could find the Hustlers University. I don’t know what they were doing inside.”
The location was eventually added to Google Maps so taxi drivers could find it, according to the Times. Tate, a 36-year-old former world kickboxing champ and British “Big Brother” participant, was arrested Thursday for allegedly running an “organized crime group” that trafficked women and forced them to create porn “meant to be seen on specialized websites for a cost.”
The women were allegedly kept under “house arrest,” with videos of one victim suspected to have generated nearly $55,000 a month while she was paid nothing. Tate has reportedly said that the women kept 80% to 85% of the income from their videos and that “most of the girls ended up being multimillionaires.”
Tate was busted along with his brother Tristan, 34, and two alleged female accomplices during a raid on the compound, where cash and guns were allegedly seized. Neighbors said at least eight to 10 women appeared in videos during constant rotating shifts inside.
“You could see the women inside working on the video cameras,” a neighbor said. “There were women there 24 hours a day.”
The number of women reportedly dropped after police raided the compound in April. Tate bought the building in 2016 for roughly 180,000 British pounds, or about $217,000, neighbors said.
