Andrew Tate, a massively profitable social media influencer recognized for expressing misogynistic views on-line, is going through a brand new lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend accusing him of sexual assault and battery.
It provides to current authorized hassle for Tate, who’s charged with human trafficking and forming a legal gang to sexually exploit ladies in Romania. His brother, Tristan Tate, can also be accused in that case.
In her grievance, Tate’s ex-girlfriend, Brianna Stern, argues that his abusive remedy of her follows a protracted sample of constructing blatant misogyny a part of his model. She mentioned he initially acted effusively loving and beneficiant to lure her right into a relationship that later turned abusive.
The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in Los Angeles, particulars an encounter earlier this month on the Beverly Hills Lodge when Tate choked and beat her, in accordance with the grievance. Stern mentioned she was later identified with post-concussion syndrome.
“YOU ARE MY PROPERTY”
My title is Bri Stern. I’m from Los Angeles California. I met Andrew Tate in the summertime of 2024 and we had been in a relationship for nearly
a 12 months.  pic.twitter.com/IfSaQImJMM
— Bri Stern (@thebristern) March 28, 2025
Tate’s legal professional, Joseph McBride, mentioned his shopper denies all allegations of violence. McBride accused Stern and her legal professionals of benefiting from the latest controversy surrounding Tate, hoping it may win them a profitable payout.
“This can be a cash seize,” McBride mentioned in a telephone interview Saturday morning. “That is the weaponization of the courtroom system in opposition to an harmless man.”
The Tate brothers, who’re twin U.S. and British residents, had been arrested in Romania in late 2022 and formally indicted final 12 months. Andrew Tate was additionally charged with rape. They deny all of the allegations in opposition to them.
Stern met Tate in July 2024 after the brothers invited her to Romania as a result of they had been in search of fashions to assist promote their cryptocurrency meme coin, in accordance with her lawsuit. She mentioned he satisfied her the media portrayals of him had been unfaithful, that he was really a supporter of ladies. It appeared like “a dream come true,” she mentioned within the grievance.
After she returned to the U.S., Tate’s communications turned threatening and manipulative, together with calling her his “property,” Stern alleges. He despatched messages saying he wished to beat and impregnate her: “You’ve an perspective since you’re not hit sufficient,” he as soon as wrote, in accordance with the grievance.
Tate’s legal professional, nonetheless, known as the messages “doctored, edited and falsified,” saying he doesn’t imagine they’ll be admissible in courtroom.
“None of it’s true,” McBride mentioned. “All of it’s a lie.”
Throughout their final encounter on the resort, Stern alleges, Tate beat and choked her throughout intercourse.
“Whereas doing so, Tate informed her repeatedly that if she ever crossed him, he was going to kill her,” the lawsuit says.
Tate, 38, is a former skilled kickboxer and self-described misogynist who has amassed thousands and thousands of followers on-line, lots of them younger males and boys drawn in by the luxurious life-style he initiatives. He beforehand was banned from TikTok, YouTube and Fb for hate speech, together with that girls ought to bear accountability for getting raped. He and his brother are vocal supporters of President Donald Trump.
The Tate brothers checked in at a police station close to Romania’s capital final Monday, complying with judicial management necessities within the human trafficking case that ordered them to return after weeks within the U.S. The American journey was potential as a result of a journey ban in opposition to them was lifted final month after a Romanian courtroom discovered a number of authorized and procedural irregularities — a big blow to the prosecution and a win for the Tates.
FILE- Cops escort Andrew Tate, heart, handcuffed to his brother Tristan Tate, to the Court docket of Attraction in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (AP Picture/Andreea Alexandru, File)
Tate has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania haven’t any proof in opposition to him and claimed there’s a political conspiracy to silence him.
Days after they arrived in Florida, the state’s legal professional basic opened a legal investigation into the brothers.
4 British ladies are suing Tate within the U.Okay. after the Crown Prosecution Service determined to not prosecute him on sexual violence and different abuse fees. Final March, the brothers appeared on the Bucharest Court docket of Attraction in a separate case after U.Okay. authorities issued arrest warrants over allegations of sexual aggression relationship again a number of years. The appeals courtroom granted the U.Okay. request to extradite them, however solely after authorized proceedings in Romania have concluded.
Stern mentioned in a press release posted to social media that she’s scared of how Tate will reply to her public accusations.
“I thought of many occasions simply silently leaving Andrew and saying nothing, doing nothing, as a result of I used to be scared and since it was truthfully arduous for me to simply accept that I used to be being abused,” she wrote. “However I can now see that doing so could be the cowardly method.”
Her legal professional, Tony Buzbee, praised her “unimaginable braveness to return ahead and make her voice heard.”
Lea Skene, The Related Press
