Andrew Tate was arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault in the UK in 2015, seven years before Romanian authorities started investigating him on human-trafficking charges.
The arrest, made long before Tate was famous, was reported by Vice World News, which spoke to two women who accused Tate.
Tate, an influencer known for flaunting wealth and egregious sexism, was accused by one of the women or rape, while the other says he strangled her.
Police in Hertfordshire, England, told Insider they arrested Tate twice — first on suspicion of assault and later on suspicion of rape. Neither arrest resulted in charges.
Both women told Vice they thought prosecutors in the UK mishandled the case.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told Insider it decided not to charge Tate because it saw “no realistic prospect of a conviction.
Tate denied the women’s claims, telling Vice via his lawyer that they ‘wanted money because I fired them.’
In 2015, Andrew Tate was running a webcam business in Luton, a city not far from London, where he would pay women to make porn on the internet.
The two women who spoke to Vice said this is where they were sexually exploited and manipulated by Tate.
