Two women who claim they were raped and strangled by controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate have spoken to the BBC about their experiences.
Another woman has come forward with allegations, for the first time, that she was raped by Tate's younger brother Tristan - also an influencer with millions of followers.
The Tate brothers, who are 37 and 36 years old, have been charged in Romania with human trafficking and the formation of an organized group for the sexual exploitation of women.
Andrew Tate is also charged with rape.
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If found guilty, the two could end up in prison for more than 10 years.
They categorically deny all the allegations.
Warning: Disturbing content and descriptions of sexual violence follow
Andrew Tate is currently under house arrest in Romania.
In addition to the ones he already faces, prosecutors are considering new charges against him, including sex with a minor and trafficking in minors.
Both brothers are also under investigation for trafficking 34 women.
Now two British women unrelated to the Romanian case against the Tate brothers have given the BBC detailed first-hand accounts of alleged rape and sexual abuse against Andrew Tate.
The accusations refer to a period of at least 10 years back, while Tate was still living in London.
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Another British woman has made fresh allegations of rape against Tristan Tate, saying he put his hands around her neck while doing so.
Anna (not her real name) told us she went out with Andrew Tate in Luton in 2013.
After several dates, he says they returned to his house.
"Anna" says Andrew Tate told her, "I'm thinking about whether or not to rape you."
"He started kissing me ... and he just looked up at the ceiling and said, 'I'm thinking about raping you or not.' Out of nowhere he just grabbed me by the neck, pushed me against the bed frame, choking me extremely hard."
Ana says that he then raped her.
She claims that after the attack, Tate sent her disturbing text and voice messages about rape and sexual violence.
"Am I a bad person? Because what you didn't like, I enjoyed more," he said in one voice message.
In the text message he wrote: "I love raping you."
Ana says he also tried to write off the choking episode as just a joke: "Are you really mad that I choked you a little?"
When asked by the BBC about the messages, Tate declined to comment.
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In 2014, Ana told Bedfordshire Police about the alleged assault.
Two other women made similar allegations and a police investigation was launched.
In 2019, the file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service, but it was decided that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
Another woman, whom we will call Siena, describes a very similar situation.
She says she first met Andrew Tate ten years ago in Luton: "We got on well and had a few drinks."
She says they had what she described as a "standard one-night stand".
A few months later, Siena says she met Tate again.
She claims that he attacked her on that occasion.
"We went into my bedroom ... and we had sex," she says.
"That's when he put his hands around my neck."
Siena says she started struggling for air and lost consciousness.
When she regained consciousness, she says that he still had sex with her.
"I was absolutely terrified," she adds.
"I remember fighting for air... It was rape."
She says her eye was bloodshot in the morning.
"The scion of one of my eyes was completely red - that's said to be quite common in cases of domestic violence involving strangulation."
Sienna's friend confirmed to the BBC that she told him about the incident at the time and that he saw her injured eye.
Siena did not go to the police and says she now regrets it.
BBC Panorama knows of a total of five women in the UK who claim Tate choked them during sex.
When we interviewed him last June, he denied ever strangling women or having sex with them without permission.
"I know I never hurt anyone. It's not in my nature to hurt people," Tate said.
In the second half of the past decade, Andrew Tate began his rise to internet stardom.
The self-proclaimed misogynist's YouTube and TikTok videos and Twitter posts have brought him millions of followers and worldwide fame.
He preached attitudes aimed at boys and young men that women must be dominated.
In one video, he said that women are "innately lazy" and added: "There is no way to live in reality without being sexist."
Tate was singled out by authorities in the UK for the influence he had in spreading misogyny on the internet.
In the videos, he also boasted about the luxurious life he claimed to be leading in Romania.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are believed to have moved to this country around 2016.
They ran a webcam business in Luton - where women chat with men and undress online for money.
Romania has one of the largest webcam industries in the world, with more than half a million employees in this sector.
After the brothers moved there, their business apparently took off.
At one point, Andrew Tate claimed he was earning £400.000 a month from webcams and that "at his peak he had 75 women working for him".
However, when he spoke to the BBC last year, he toned down those boasts, claiming they were exaggerations and lies.
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The adult film business is a key item in the criminal indictment brought against them in Romania.
Prosecutors allege that the brothers worked to traffic women by bringing them into the country - in other words, recruiting them, arranging their transport and providing them with accommodation in Bucharest for the purposes of exploitation.
The two women named in the indictment were brought to Romania from Great Britain.
Another British woman, who was not named in any of the legal proceedings, told the BBC about her own experiences working for the Tate brothers.
She announced herself publicly for the first time.
Daisy (not her real name) says that she was dating Tristan Tate in Great Britain in 2017, when he persuaded her to start working for the brothers' webcam business in Bucharest.
We have seen evidence that Tristan bought her a plane ticket to Bucharest.
Daisy traveled of her own free will, knowingly agreeing to work for a webcam business.
She describes the tightly controlled environment in which she and the other webcam girls lived and worked together.
"The girls had their own rooms, but it was not their personal space. Everything was Tristan and Andrew's, the bedrooms where the girls worked were also the bedrooms where the brothers slept."
There were strict rules for all the women, says Daisy, and almost every aspect of their lives was monitored.
This description was confirmed by a Romanian webcam actress, who also spoke with us.
"Raluka" says that she worked for the Tate brothers in 2021.
She claims that "control and manipulation" played a key role in their business model.
Most of the models who worked for the Tate brothers "had fun with them," claims Raluka.
She adds that some of them were women who were brought from Great Britain.
Romanian prosecutors claim they have statements from three women who describe how they were "controlled" by the brothers.
In the indictment, some of the women claim that they were not allowed to "voluntarily" leave the house.
When Andrew Tate spoke to the BBC last year, he denied the allegations and claimed the women were working for themselves.
He said his role was simply "to help them find a cameraman".
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Days after arriving in Romania, Daisy says she broke up with Tristan Tate, but claims that didn't stop him from trying to have sex with her.
"I told him 'no' 10 to 15 times, that I don't want to."
He put his hands around her neck and raped her, she says.
Daisy did not report the case to the police.
The BBC spoke to one of her friends who says that after Daisy returned to the UK she was upset and told him that Tristan Tate had been violent towards her during sex.
We asked Tristan Tate about the allegations against him - he had no comment.
New investigations have now been launched against the Tate brothers in Romania
The Tate brothers' legal problems have worsened this year, 2024.
In addition to the existing charges in Romania, and the launch of a new investigation announced last month, they face a large number of court cases elsewhere.
In the UK, Bedfordshire Police launched extradition proceedings against both brothers on charges of rape and human trafficking dating back to 2012-2015.
None of these cases are related to the women we spoke to.
In a civil action brought by Devon and Cornwall Police, a magistrate is expected to rule next month on whether the Tate brothers owe millions in unpaid tax for their online business.
Siena and Anna are now suing Andrew Tate, and their case will be heard at the High Court in London.
Along with two other women, they accuse them of rape and sexual assault.
He plans to dispute those claims.
We asked Tate about all these allegations - he declined to comment.
He told us last year: "I can't wait for the truth to come out." I can't wait for the BBC to trumpet the truth that Andrew Tate was exonerated because I never did anything wrong."
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