Ms. Doe was 20 when she first met Tristan Tate online in 2021, according to the complaint. The two met up shortly after, when he was visiting Miami for a work event, according to the complaint, and they became romantically involved. After Mr. Tate returned to Romania, he told her he had feelings for her and asked her to join him, it said.
But after landing in Romania in 2022, Ms. Doe said, she felt the experience was “not normal.” Mr. Tate was rarely available and told her she could not have “external friends.” She lived with several other women, two of whom “appeared to be working very long hours” on OnlyFans, a platform known for adult content, the complaint said. “She became concerned she was lured to Romania on false pretenses,” the complaint said.
Another woman in the home, identified in the complaint as Mary Doe, also moved to Romania in 2022, believing she was in a relationship with Andrew Tate. After she arrived in Romania, he restricted her movements, said she could not go out alone and coerced her into having group sex with other women, Jane Doe’s complaint says. He referred to Mary Doe as “slave” in some messages, the complaint said, and in another told her, “You’re property owned by me.”
In their 2023 lawsuit against Jane Doe, the Tates pointed to closed-circuit television footage that they said showed the two women “freely entering and leaving the premises at their leisure,” and they denied any involvement in human trafficking.
They also pointed to text messages from Jane Doe to Mary Doe in which she appeared to discuss efforts to “keep those guys in jail” and their plans to write a movie together, according to a ruling last November that allowed the suit against Jane Doe to go forward. That exchange, the Tates said in an amended complaint, proved that the women were conspiring to incarcerate them for “financial gain and fame.”
