A young Ukrainian refugee found by police during a raid on an online sex business run by Andrew Tate has denied that the controversial British ‘influencer’ mistreats women.
The refugee was among the women cops found at Andrew Tate’s Romanian properties — and is now staunchly defending the influencer against accusations he’s a rapist forcing women into porn.
The refugee — who only gave the name Lisa revealed that she was quizzed by cops after they raided the house where Tate is accused of raping a 22-year-old woman held there against her will.
She had been there around a month before Tate, 36, and his 34-year-old brother Tristan were arrested at a nearby property Thursday, accused of also forcing women into porn against their will.
‘Everything the police have said is not true,’ she told the UK paper of the charges.
‘I know them [the Tates] and they could not do this. The girls who live here do not have to do anything. They are good girls,’ she maintained.
Lisa said she had been invited to live at the $360,000 house with Tate’s assistant by two Romanian housemates.
The pair were making around $4,000 a month, she said, claiming it was all from TikTok comedy clips.
‘What the police are saying, I know it is untrue. They don’t have any proof,’ Lisa said.
Despite being a new arrival from the war in her homeland, Lisa told the UK paper that she knew the Tates well, having first met them around three years ago at a party in Kyiv when she worked in marketing for a realtor.
She said the US-born former reality TV star only ‘acts’ like a hate-spewing misogynist for show.
‘He is not like that in real life,’ she maintained of the former kickboxer who has said that rape victims should ‘bear some responsibility’ for their attacks.
‘I don’t believe anything bad about them — I have known them for a long time,’ she said of the locked-up brothers.
Tate assured Lisa that his online sex business was ‘a very long time ago . . . maybe when they are 23 or 24 and made their first million dollars,’ she said.
‘They have so much money. They cannot make so much money from video [sex] chats,’ she said.
Tate has transferred control of his website and consultancy businesses to his girlfriend and an American TikTok star since coming under investigation by Romania’s organised crime unit.
Police raided the headquarters of his “Hustler University” — where weapons were found.
They also searched a nearby house that was raided in April last year when a 22-year-old American woman claimed she was being held against her will.
