The Dangerous Rise Of Andrew Tate (Full Documentary)
This one-off special full documentary has been years in the making, tracking the dangerous rise of Andrew Tate through the meteoric growth of his online following. Invited into Andrew Tate’s compound in Romania, where he was recently arrested, journalist Matt Shea enters the world of the social media personality’s multi-level marketing scheme and webcam business. This film question's Andrew Tate, challenging him on his stance regarding the treatment of women, which has become a central aspect of his personal brand as well as his business practices.
Journalist Matt Shea meets two women who reported Andrew Tate to the British police force in 2015, alleging sexual assault and physical abuse at the time – allegations he strongly denies.
Journalist Matt Shea meets two women who reported Andrew Tate to the British police force in 2015, alleging sexual assault and physical abuse at the time – allegations he strongly denies.
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00:00Do you ever wonder why some people who you've never heard of before, all of a sudden, appear
00:06everywhere?
00:07Andrew Tate!
00:08Andrew Tate is an Anglo-American kickboxer turned influencer, whose extreme misogynist
00:16videos have helped make him the most viral man in the world.
00:20Bang out the machete, boom in her face, then grip her up by the neck, but shut up bitch!
00:26On December 29th, he and his brother were arrested by Romanian police as part of a rape
00:31and human trafficking investigation.
00:35A few months before their arrest, I was in Romania, trying to get access to their so-called
00:40secret society, The War Room.
00:43The War Room is the most powerful network on the face of the planet today.
00:47To get inside, I had agreed to endure a professional cage fight in Romania, along with 100 Tate
00:56We shouldn't be slaves, we shouldn't be working 9-to-5 jobs.
00:59I need to grow, I need to get better, I need to evolve.
01:02I'm not tough on myself, nobody else will be.
01:04That's what I learned from Andrew Tate.
01:06This shame and power, hold on to it.
01:09What I found out...
01:10My plan was to sow anarchy.
01:13Is that the real story?
01:14This is definitely a hit piece.
01:15I don't care!
01:17Began years ago.
01:18There's not a single female complaining on the planet.
01:20Do you think there's not a single female complaining?
01:21No, no, no.
01:22Have you seen one?
01:23Tell me.
01:24My work was radicalized by Andrew Tate.
01:27He was sweet, and I guess vulnerable.
01:30People don't know what he's done.
01:44If you haven't heard of Andrew Tate yet, it's only a matter of time before he pops up on
01:47your news feed.
01:48His videos have been viewed over 11 billion times, and in July he was more Googled than
01:52Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump.
01:54He's been called the king of toxic masculinity.
01:57He has said that rape victims should, quote, bear responsibility for being raped.
02:03We're about to enter his compound in Romania, which was raided earlier this year as part
02:07of the rape and human trafficking investigation that led to his arrest in 2022.
02:12Is it true that you sequestered an American girl?
02:14She's not even pretty.
02:15This girl's average.
02:16She's ugly.
02:17I don't have time for this bullshit.
02:19What about the rape accusation?
02:21It's not true at all.
02:26Hello.
02:27Is this Andrew Tate's house?
02:29I'm Matt.
02:30Okay.
02:31Just a second to have a confirmation from Mr. Tate.
02:33Okay, cool.
02:34Yeah, you just let me know when we're allowed.
02:36Okay.
02:37Yeah?
02:38Yes.
02:40You're welcome.
02:41Hello, hello.
02:42Good to see you.
02:44This place is giant.
02:45Yeah, I can give you a quick tour.
02:47I can't show you a lot of it.
02:48A lot of it's like off limits.
02:51I can show you some of it.
02:52Okay.
02:53G, come bite them.
02:54Show them how scary you are.
02:55Is this the normal level of security you have for your house every day, or is this just
02:58for us?
02:59This is the normal level of security I have in my house every day.
03:01I am prepared for all eventualities.
03:02It's better to be paranoid.
03:04I kind of like cars.
03:05I can tell, yeah.
03:07This door leads to...
03:08I can't take you in there.
03:10That's classified.
03:11Up on there, can't take you in there either.
03:12It's classified.
03:13You do know if you go to any off-limit areas, like security, you're going to intercept.
03:16Yeah.
03:17So when I point classified, I'm basically saying don't make them put a gun in your face.
03:19Got it.
03:21World title belts.
03:22I was four-time kickboxing world champion.
03:24And what's this painting over here?
03:26That's my brother.
03:27Who else lives here?
03:28Is it just you?
03:29No, I live here with my brother.
03:30I think you get the best version of yourself if you live with other competitive men.
03:32I don't have loser friends.
03:34I like sitting down with people and discussing how we can make money from the conflict in
03:38Ukraine.
03:39That's what I enjoy.
03:40I don't want to talk about TV.
03:41Interesting.
03:42Okay, cool.
03:43Hi, by the way.
03:44Sorry to interrupt.
03:45I'm Matt.
03:46Georgia.
03:47Georgia, good to meet you.
03:48What are you up to, Georgia?
03:49Working.
03:50Working?
03:51Working.
03:52Okay.
03:53The woman I'm trying to speak to, Georgiana Nalko, would also later be arrested, accused
03:59of assisting Tate in a human trafficking operation, something she denies fully.
04:05Hey, how's it going?
04:06Hello.
04:07Hi.
04:08Hey.
04:09Hey, how are you?
04:10What are these guys up to?
04:11Conquering the world, my friend.
04:12Through what means?
04:13I run Hustlers University, which is now currently the biggest online educational platform in
04:15the world.
04:16We've grown extremely fast.
04:17We have 110,000 students inside of a year.
04:21Hustlers University.
04:22Hustlers University.
04:23Hustlers University.
04:25For $49 a month, Andrew Tate's online Hustlers University promises to teach his millions
04:31of followers the secrets of modern wealth creation, from crypto trading to dropshipping.
04:37No big deal.
04:38Just the biggest online school in history.
04:39Is this a sharpsword or is it kind of a decorative sword?
04:42I did a Tate speech about why I have this sword.
04:45A Tate speech is like my YouTube channel, Tate Speech.
04:48And I talked about how the number one problem with the world is that not enough men walk
04:52around their houses with swords.
04:54That's up there, for sure.
04:55Because if more men walked around their houses with swords, so many of the world's issues
04:57could be fixed.
04:58But you have to extrapolate it.
05:00For example, if a woman panics, she sees something on TV, the man comes home, she's like, oh,
05:04we've got to start wearing a mask.
05:06If the man walked around with a sword and she's like, put a mask on, he'd be like, I'm
05:10brave, I don't need a mask, I'm a commander.
05:13Fuck you.
05:14It's just a symbol of empowerment.
05:17You've got your sword, your wife starts talking, you're like, shut up, I decide what I do.
05:22Be quiet.
05:23Cook.
05:24Andrew's unashamed, misogynistic and violent views so far seem to match his YouTube persona.
05:31But to find out how he's translated those into viral fame, I accept an invite onto the
05:36Tate Brothers podcast, Emergency Meeting, which is also a chance to get acquainted with
05:41his brother, Tristan.
05:43Welcome to Emergency Meeting, episode 13.
05:45We have a special guest, Matt Shea, who is internationally renowned and respected.
05:49He's a folk singer and he's going to sing us a song.
05:52Andrew's invited his mate on our show, without my consent.
05:55I'm just going to have to bite my tongue and listen to you guys talk most of this Emergency
05:59Meeting.
06:00Otherwise, I'm going to walk off.
06:01Matt, can you introduce yourself, tell them about your singing career, tell them where
06:03you're from, et cetera.
06:04Yes.
06:05So I'm actually not a folk singer at all.
06:07What?
06:08No, sorry.
06:09What?
06:10I call my brother a liar.
06:11You lied to me.
06:12Yes.
06:13Let me ask you a question.
06:15Have you ever seen the clown that hides from gay people?
06:17Have you seen him?
06:18No, I haven't seen the clown that hides from gay people.
06:19So you've never seen him?
06:20No.
06:21Is he here somewhere?
06:22Strange.
06:23Well, yeah, he's right here.
06:24I see him.
06:25I see him.
06:26All right, let's be nice to our vice friend.
06:27So let me be nice to him before he does a hit piece on me.
06:28This is definitely a hit piece.
06:29I've warned my brother that this is a setup and this is what everyone-
06:30I don't care.
06:31I'm uninterested.
06:32I've clearly conquered the internet.
06:33I'm clearly unstoppable.
06:34I'm like the board.
06:35You've invited the liberal news media to come talk to me.
06:36They can all come, just because I'm gay.
06:37I don't care.
06:39I've clearly conquered the internet.
06:40I'm clearly unstoppable.
06:41I'm like the board.
06:42You've invited the liberal news media to come talk to me.
06:43They can all come, just because I'm wearing a gun, I'm violent.
06:44Is that how it is?
06:45Just because I've got knives all over the table and I'm a kickboxing world champion,
06:46I'm violent.
06:47If you are wearing a gun and you have knives, that does make you a little bit violent.
06:48No, it doesn't.
06:49No, it doesn't.
06:50It makes me security aware.
06:51Sing a song!
06:52Sing like you promised!
06:53It's a setup.
06:54I won't kick vice out of my house.
06:55A few more minutes, and we'll be done with it.
06:56No, no.
06:57You can sing now, or you're off the pod.
06:58During an ad break, Andrew breaks in.
07:00I'm not very good at talking shit.
07:01We've had a long career.
07:02We have to do our normal broadcasting.
07:03Okay.
07:04Kick him off the pod.
07:05Cool, man.
07:06Have fun, guys.
07:07Yeah.
07:08Bro, this is going to be the worst documentary ever.
07:09It's going to be the worst.
07:10It's going to be the worst.
07:11It's going to be the worst.
07:12It's going to be the worst.
07:13It's going to be the worst.
07:14It's going to be the worst.
07:15It's going to be the worst.
07:16It's going to be the worst.
07:17It's going to be the worst.
07:18It's going to be the worst.
07:19It's going to be the worst.
07:20It's going to be the worst.
07:21It's going to be the worst.
07:22It's going to be the worst.
07:24Okay.
07:25Kick him off the pod.
07:26Cool, man.
07:27Have fun, guys.
07:28Yeah.
07:29Bro, this is going to be the worst documentary ever.
07:30About us.
07:31What are they going to say?
07:32I don't know.
07:33He has lots of cars and money.
07:34All the women love him.
07:35He's sexist.
07:36Oh no.
07:37Please don't put that on the internet.
07:38Who cares?
07:39Right?
07:40Whatever.
07:41Within minutes of being on their show, the Tate content machine snaps into action.
07:42Oh yeah.
07:43Wow.
07:44Already?
07:45You promised to sing to me.
07:46It's the best.
07:47It's the best.
07:48It's the best.
07:49It's the best.
07:50It's the best.
07:51It's the best.
07:52You promised to sing to me.
07:53If you think I won't kick Vice out of my house, you can sing now or you're off the pod.
07:58Tate brothers embarrass Vice reporter.
08:00Actually, I take that back.
08:01I want to make sure that my army is fighting, you know, ethically and politically.
08:0518,000 likes, 246 comments, 66 reshares.
08:10Oh, I accidentally liked it.
08:12If you had to go to war, would you call your friends?
08:14Let's see what people are saying.
08:16Tate win, as always.
08:18I'm impressed how easily he runs over weak men's arguments.
08:22It isn't Tate posting all these videos.
08:24So who are all these people?
08:26Tate brothers embarrass Vice reporter was posted by a fan account that has 58,000 followers
08:33and 3.9 million likes.
08:35And it's just posting loads of videos every single day.
08:38Right in the description of his account says looking to level up your life.
08:41Start here.
08:43It's a sign up link to the Hustlers University.
08:45Another account.
08:46And again, a link to the Hustlers University.
08:50He's got a clever formula here.
08:53It turns out a big part of Hustlers University is an affiliate marketing scheme
08:58where boys as young as 13 share controversial videos of Andrew
09:02with links to the Hustlers University underneath.
09:05If someone signs up through your link, you get 48% of their subscription fee.
09:10By financially incentivizing 110,000 students to share his content online,
09:15Andrew has essentially built an army to make him rich and famous in a very short space of time.
09:20And he's tactically avoiding the impact of social media bans
09:24because it isn't Andrew himself posting.
09:26It's his legion of fans.
09:28All I'm doing is saying the shit that everyone thinks isn't allowed to say.
09:32So that's the reason I'm all big on the internet.
09:35I'm starting to wonder whether he's just a living meme.
09:38You're a loser because your mentality is loserish.
09:41Some kind of viral marketing campaign aimed at young men.
09:45You've never had to like my hat, ever.
09:48Or if he really believes what he says.
09:50All I'm offering is the truth.
09:56Andrew first appeared on our screens as a reality TV star.
10:00I've never been in a situation in my life so far in my 21 years
10:04where I really wanted something and didn't get it.
10:06He had found an arena where controversial personalities thrive.
10:09I'm going to have to manipulate a lot of people to win.
10:11But something happened when Andrew was on Big Brother,
10:14one of the biggest reality TV shows of all time.
10:17This is Big Brother.
10:19Due to events in the outside world, Andrew has had to leave the Big Brother house.
10:25He was reportedly removed from the program
10:27when a video surfaced of him slapping his ex-girlfriend and then beating her with a belt.
10:32You stupid bitch.
10:34I didn't say the word listen.
10:35Did I say listen?
10:36Did I say listen?
10:37No.
10:38Did I say it?
10:40Public outrage simmered down after Andrew released a video of his ex
10:44claiming it was all part of a so-called kinky game.
10:47It was just pure game. It's just what we used to do.
10:50But what the public didn't know, and what we can now reveal,
10:54is that around the time that Andrew was playing truth or dare in the Big Brother pool,
10:58the UK police had informed the production company
11:02that he was under investigation for two incidents involving other women.
11:07One of rape and a further of physical assault.
11:13In May 2021, Tate made reference to his arrest
11:16in an appearance on the Fresh and Fit podcast.
11:19I was like, who are you?
11:20They're like, you're under arrest for a suspicion of assault of this dumb hoe.
11:23And I'm like...
11:24Wait, this is a dumb hoe?
11:26They didn't, but I'm going to protect their anonymity because I'm a nice guy.
11:31Dumb hoe.
11:33During this same period, the Tate brothers
11:35were recruiting women for a webcam sex business
11:39and creating the first of their many online courses
11:42teaching other men how to do the same.
11:46I am her everything.
11:48It doesn't matter if I fuck someone else, because I'm her everything.
11:51She has nowhere else to go.
11:53It was called the Tate PhD, or Pimping Hoes degree.
11:57She was a fucking hoe, and I spotted it instantly
11:59because she didn't humble herself when she was supposed to.
12:01And I'm glad I didn't waste any more time on her,
12:03because she's never going to be doing what my other girls do,
12:05living in my house, letting me fuck other women,
12:07remaining loyal, and fucking bringing me coffees and doing as I say.
12:10Andrew has closed down the Pimping Hoes degree
12:13to focus on the Hustlers University.
12:15Luke, your screen's compromised, yeah?
12:17So keep it super fucking vanilla.
12:21Did you at one point say that the girls who started as your girlfriends
12:25and then worked for the webcam industry,
12:27100% of the profit goes to you?
12:29I think in a lot of households in the world today,
12:31the man is in charge of the investments.
12:33I think that's not an uncommon thing.
12:35Tell me a view I have that you think is genuinely insulting
12:38or destructive to society. I'd like to hear it.
12:40You prefer younger women who are 18 or 19
12:42because you can leave an imprint on them,
12:44or you prefer younger women who are 18 or 19
12:46because you can leave an imprint on them,
12:48or you prefer younger women who are 18 or 19
12:50because you can leave an imprint on them?
12:52No, when I say leave an imprint, I mean that...
12:54I understand what you're trying to say.
12:56You're trying to say that if I get her, I can brainwash her.
12:59I'm not trying to say that.
13:01If you meet a girl who's 22 and you're her second boyfriend,
13:04she's probably a nicer person, less jaded, less upset, less suspicious.
13:07So you like to be in a position of power?
13:09It's not being in a position of power.
13:11It's about I enjoy to show her amazing things.
13:13You're trying to attach things to the situation which aren't true.
13:16I understand that rape is a terrible thing,
13:18but if you put yourself in a position to be raped,
13:20then you should bear some responsibility for that.
13:22Okay, so first we agree that rape is a terrible thing.
13:25The point I'm trying to make is the best way to prevent yourself from being raped
13:28is to have a degree of personal responsibility
13:30and not put yourself in positions to be raped,
13:32as opposed to standing there saying that rape shouldn't happen,
13:36or men, raise our boys better.
13:39You know what else shouldn't happen? Robbery.
13:42I want the freedom to walk down the road with a million dollars in cash.
13:45Is it fair to compare the desire to walk around with a million pounds in cash
13:48to someone wanting to just walk around their own city at night?
13:52Well, female beauty is extremely valuable.
13:56Of course female beauty is extremely valuable
14:00in the eyes of men who seek to exploit it.
14:04I don't give a shit about having sex with beautiful women.
14:07I fuck them so they listen to me,
14:09so I can get what I actually want,
14:11which is not them.
14:13It's a means to an end.
14:15Every single Bond girl was exploited.
14:18That's exactly what I do.
14:20Have you heard the term loverboy before?
14:23The loverboy method?
14:25Yeah, romantically involving yourself with a woman
14:27and then making money off of her in some sort of sex-adjacent industry.
14:31Firstly, I would call the webcam industry far closer to psychology than sex.
14:35The webcam industry has prevented more male suicide
14:38than any group of therapists, any action group, any charity ever would, right?
14:43Is that true? How can you measure that?
14:45Well, it's not about measuring, it's about my personal experience.
14:47One of the concerns that people have about that loverboy method is that it's...
14:52Let me correct you, because I'm a professional.
14:53...is that it's similar to, or people might consider that a form of grooming.
14:56Okay, so I'm a professional, so I have to change what you just said.
15:00I have to at least challenge you on it.
15:03Nobody's concerned about anything that happened ten years ago
15:06when a bunch of girls got rich.
15:07There's not a single female complaining.
15:08Do you think there's not a single female complaining?
15:10Have you seen one? Tell me.
15:13Andrew says no woman has complained about him personally.
15:16He won't let us speak to the women who work for him,
15:18so for now it's difficult to verify this claim.
15:22But I have spoken to many women
15:24who complain about the effect Andrew's rhetoric is having on their lives.
15:28To protect them from harassment, I've agreed not to name them.
15:32My ex-boyfriend was radicalised by Andrew Tate
15:37to the point of threatening to release revenge porn
15:40unless I took back what I said on social media
15:42against his sexist, misogynistic views.
15:45It's like a virus, the things that he's spreading.
15:48The scariest thing is, I have no idea if the next guy I meet could be an Andrew Tate fan.
15:53As a teacher, it's definitely worrisome.
15:55There are boys who look up to him, especially those that may be vulnerable
15:58They're sort of going to go into the real world, carrying those violent views with them.
16:03I'm 14.
16:04The boys at school my age think that it's OK to say horrible things
16:08like women are men's property and they get to do what they want with them.
16:11It makes me really disappointed in my generation.
16:14Andrew's views represent a new era in modern misogyny.
16:17Start talking to some bitches.
16:18Say, me and my man, we're fucking.
16:20Where you can now not only talk openly about subjugating and objectifying women,
16:25but doing so actually garners millions of committed fans.
16:29They don't believe the level that you can operate at when you're actually a G.
16:34The most hardcore of them have travelled here to Romania to join The War Room.
16:39The War Room is a fraternity.
16:40We're a brotherhood which is designed to inspire the best from our brothers.
16:44They have to have the mentality and the pedigree to survive.
16:47There's tests, and if you do them, you can stay inside.
16:50Andrew Tate!
16:53At the top of Andrew's fraternity is a small group of wealthy and powerful men
16:58who all stand to gain significantly from the expansion of his empire.
17:02This inner circle is not happy that I'm here.
17:07After our testy exchange this morning, Andrew invites me to watch him train.
17:12Have you ever boxed before?
17:14No, but it turns out he's planning on teaching me a lesson.
17:18Who's got spare gloves?
17:21There you go.
17:22I appear to have unintentionally walked into a situation where
17:25Andrew Tate is going to train me how to box.
17:27Punch me!
17:32Punch me.
17:33Knock out.
17:35Oh, look at him, you're bleeding already.
17:38It's only round one, we've only warmed up. Keep going, bro, we've got ten more rounds.
17:41No, I can wait.
17:43I meet and get punched in the face by the inner circle of The War Room.
17:49In the world Andrew is creating, not only are women to be subjugated…
17:54Sorry, that almost felt like I got knocked out.
17:56…but men defined by their capacity to inflict violence.
18:00OK, OK, tap out.
18:02You stopped, you were like, alright, pause, time out,
18:04like if that were having a street fight, would someone stop?
18:06No.
18:07So that's your reaction, I need to fight back.
18:09Yeah.
18:10Does that make sense?
18:11Yeah.
18:14The War Room is a network, we have ten meetings a year.
18:16The next one's going to be in the mountains of Transylvania.
18:18You could do it, but I don't know, my friend, if you're prepared.
18:23We've left Bucharest and we're driving into the Carpathian Mountains
18:26to meet Andrew and his inner circle for The War Room,
18:30which is going to involve something called The Test.
18:34I've made it into Andrew Tate's War Room,
18:36where 100 of his biggest fans have flown in from all across the world,
18:40each paying $5,000 to have their manhood tested
18:43by the one they refer to as Commander.
18:47None of us know what he has in store.
18:50I welcome you all to The Test.
18:52There is a cage fighting event,
18:54and every single one of you has been paired against a professional fighter.
18:58You will fight in the cage, on national television,
19:01and it's a real fight.
19:03There are two paths you can go down.
19:05You can agree to fight, or you can decide that it's not for you.
19:08You have one hour to think and make a decision.
19:12That's going to be a hard no from now on.
19:17Maybe I'll do a yes, just to learn a little bit more of what happens,
19:21and then definitely pull out at some point.
19:24Does anyone have any questions to ask me?
19:30There's no training before this fight.
19:32If you've been walking through life too lazy to fucking train,
19:35is that your problem or my problem?
19:39I couldn't help overhearing some disagreement within the war room.
19:42I think he wants to talk to you. Wink, wink.
19:45What the hell are you doing? What's this all about?
19:48It's going to be fine, bro.
19:50We have an ambulance. We have medics.
19:52Nobody got fucking knocked out. Don't worry about it.
19:55At the center of it all was Andrew's right-hand man, Iggy Samowise.
20:03Here I will share with you my secrets.
20:06He's the self-proclaimed greatest hypnotist in the world.
20:09You will learn the power of hypnosis.
20:13And seemed to have an agenda that expanded beyond the war room itself
20:17into something larger and darker.
20:20Your sons will marry their daughters. Your daughters will marry their sons.
20:24You will create legacies.
20:26Enjoying those juicy steaks, that finer scotch, those smoother cigars.
20:33He refused to speak to us, but it's clear that he has a big role to play
20:37in whatever the war room's real agenda is.
20:40This is the war room of Andrew Tate.
20:44Welcome to the test.
20:47Now is decision time.
20:49You are getting in the cage to fight a professional fighter who is trained to hurt you.
20:53Anyone who is fighting, please stand up.
20:55Anyone who is not fighting, you can stay seated, and we will begin the other program.
21:00Just like that, a third of the room decides to get beaten up for Andrew Tate.
21:05What happens to the people who said no?
21:07They're doing something slightly different, describing the reasons they didn't do it,
21:10how that affects their life as a whole,
21:12whether they're going to make any changes in the future to be more ready for opportunities.
21:15That's where honor comes from, right? From victory.
21:17One of the men who said no agrees to speak to us as long as we hide his face.
21:23Why did you say no?
21:25I have been in the ring before, but just sparring.
21:28I was like, fuck, professionals and Russians, they guys are serious.
21:32I was just too scared.
21:34Then afterwards, I felt bad about myself, and I was angry at myself.
21:40Because I came here to be tested.
21:42Andrew Tate has obviously said a lot of controversial things online.
21:45What do you think about that?
21:46A lot of things are very controversial,
21:48but I think the bottom of his message is a very, very positive one.
21:53Because if I'm not tough on myself, nobody else will be.
21:56Nobody really cares about me if I don't care about me, right?
21:58That's what I learned from Andrew Tate.
22:00People who decided this morning, and people who decided that later today here.
22:03We have a chaperone following us.
22:05We've been told that we're not allowed to talk to anyone.
22:08What about in passing, asking people, like, what single question?
22:11Let me run this by tape before we film.
22:13No other comment.
22:14Okay. Would you be up for that?
22:16Yeah.
22:17Yeah?
22:18Our chaperone vets who we speak to, and tries to heavily control our questions.
22:22Show that you're not some sort of right-wing extremist.
22:25Why did you join the War Room?
22:27I don't want to be fucking stagnant. I need to grow.
22:30It's just a fundamental shift in my mindset.
22:33What I think could be bad is always good.
22:36Before the War Room, I used to think, why is this happening to me now?
22:39What is this trying to, like, teach me?
22:41About Andrew Tate specifically, and the things he says online,
22:44the things that get him negative publicity.
22:46What do you think about those things?
22:48I think he's speaking the truth.
22:49Really?
22:50Yeah.
22:52Interviewing under the chaperone's supervision is proving restrictive.
22:55Yeah?
22:56No fucking, no alpha craziness.
22:58He's a bit of a, he's an animal, this one.
23:00So we can't speak to anyone?
23:01Okay.
23:02Who is this mysterious chaperone anyway?
23:05Hey, man.
23:06Matt, how are you?
23:07Good, good. How are you?
23:08Good, man.
23:09I was wondering if we could have a little chat.
23:10Yeah, sounds good.
23:11Yeah?
23:12It's me, man.
23:13Like most War Room leaders, he has a sports car.
23:16Do you want to do the interview in here?
23:18Yeah, I don't see why not, man.
23:20Like most people with a sports car, he's keen to show it off.
23:30So what do they call you?
23:32In these circles, Sartorial or the Sartorial Shooter.
23:35I'm one of the guys who manages organizational risk and security for the War Room.
23:39So anyone with any criminal activity, maybe they are showing signs of being racist or sexist
23:44or any of these sorts of things, they're out straight away.
23:46We will not tolerate that.
23:47And so how do you reconcile that with some of the things that Andrew, for example, says online?
23:51Any claims of misogyny or the fact that he's spreading hateful words,
23:55that's not the reality of who he is and that's not what the War Room stands for.
23:58And that's not what he stands for.
23:59There are many clips of him out there saying,
24:02I'm not a misogynist. I provide for my women.
24:04I would stand up for my women in a violent situation.
24:06What do you think his detractors would say about, for example, what you just said,
24:10the phrase, my woman?
24:11Do you think that they would consider that to be misogynist?
24:14The phrase, my woman, for me, ties into the very traditional values that we have.
24:17Andrew's well known for talking a lot about his multiple girlfriends.
24:22How does that tie into this idea of a traditional relationship?
24:26Men at certain levels can provide for multiple women.
24:29And even we can go back a hundred years ago, kings, you know, wealthy men,
24:34they would support multiple families.
24:36How is that a bad thing?
24:38It's only very recently that men and women have been competing in pretty much in masculine realms,
24:43in work, in career.
24:44Not that long ago, and indeed in many cultures around the world,
24:47women still have the traditional gender norms.
24:50And we believe in the war, and that's what leads to happiness.
24:53Rather than a career, or like you have, you know, your own agency in the world to pursue your own goals.
25:00The women who I know who are most fulfilled in life
25:02are not trying to do the things that traditionally men used to do.
25:05What about a situation where, this has just popped into my head,
25:08where I want my girlfriend, who I love, to be a kept woman,
25:12but she doesn't, she wants to pursue a career or something like that.
25:15Then find a different woman. Very simple.
25:19The core belief driving the war room, and what men here are seeking,
25:23is a misogynist fantasy of a time when they were kings, and women were subjugated.
25:28It's at the heart of what Andrew Tate is selling.
25:31Just look at the tweets of Iggy Semmelweis, his second in command.
25:37My webcam girl is home 100% of the time, has no time nor interest in going out.
25:42She sleeps, cooks, cleans, does her shows, gives me all the money,
25:46gets railed by me and our girlfriends,
25:48then smiles, thanks me, and goes and does it again tomorrow.
25:51Welcome to the war room.
26:02As the war room members and I are bused to the fight location,
26:05the world begins to talk about Andrew Tate with a new intensity.
26:10He is a 35-year-old influencer who's been accused of spreading rape culture.
26:14Openly condones and celebrates violence against women.
26:16Hitting women.
26:17Kids are acting like the things that he's saying is revolutionary.
26:2011-year-old boys, they love Andrew Tate.
26:22Please stop looking up to Andrew Tate, he is a bad guy.
26:27With the PR crisis going on, Andrew's team are eager for some good press,
26:31so they send an extra-friendly chaperone to sell me on the benefits of the war room experience.
26:38I'm Alpha Wolf.
26:39Okay.
26:40My role is to be Alpha Wolf.
26:42Okay, fair enough.
26:43Life is all about how you deal with the pain and how you move forward.
26:46You're going to learn a lot about yourself as a man,
26:48so take it, make the best out of it, and grow as a man and be tough.
26:53All of the men in this room seem to be taking this incredibly seriously.
26:57What's your goal for the fight?
26:59Of course I'm going to try to win.
27:00I see a lot of contenders right there who had the guts to come right here in the cage.
27:06If any one of them win one fight, he's going to win all their money, all their girls.
27:14This is the culmination of Andrew Tate's pressure cooker of male insecurity.
27:18You're a fucking bro.
27:19You are poor.
27:21I'm the only guy on this fucking platform flying around in private jets with 27 cars living this lifestyle.
27:25Most of you are not too stupid to become rich.
27:27Are you ready?
27:29Round one.
27:32But while they come forward to gratefully take the beatings they've paid thousands of dollars for,
27:37You're here to lose a little bit of blood.
27:40Andrew Tate's future on social media is hanging in the balance,
27:44and the public backlash is spreading.
27:49I'm desperate to ask him about all of this,
27:51but first I have to get through this ridiculous situation that I've found myself in.
27:57All right, let's go.
27:59Let's give it up for Matt Hedges.
28:04Did I say it right?
28:06Hedges.
28:07I'm very excited for him.
28:09As soon as the bell goes, Matt has passed the test.
28:12I know he's going to lose, but wow, he's actually in there.
28:16Let's go, Matty!
28:17Come on, Matt!
28:18Come on, Matt!
28:25Whatever's going on behind the scenes,
28:27watching me get chased around, it's a smile on Andrew's face.
28:32He takes it and gets stripped to the ground.
28:34And there's going to be a ground-and-pound finish.
28:36But that is it.
28:37The referee calls it.
28:39It's a good decision.
28:40He was unable to defend himself.
28:42I hated these guys when they turned up.
28:44I almost punched Matt myself when he was in my house.
28:47But you know what?
28:48He's officially from Theodore.
28:49I can't believe he actually got in there.
28:56Those who went all in on their fight came out badly.
29:02One man was knocked out and taken away on a stretcher.
29:08The inner circle had put these men through collective hardship
29:12and recreated them in Andrew Tate's image.
29:15Fighters.
29:16Come here, guys. Come up to the front.
29:17He broke his hand on your head.
29:19And you're fine.
29:20So you win.
29:22But they had also joined a movement
29:24that was widely accused of normalizing sexism.
29:29While the men who chose to fight are paraded in front of the crowd,
29:32Andrew's team shamed those who refused.
29:35The shame.
29:36Hold.
29:37Hold on to it.
29:38Don't let it go.
29:40So anyone who fought, you can put your hand up.
29:42How the experience was, how it's going to change your life.
29:45And if you have anything to say to the people who didn't fight.
29:47I don't think I have any word of advice for the people that didn't do it
29:50except that you should have probably.
29:58Right now I have new mountains to climb
30:00and I'd love to get back here a year from now
30:02and go to the gym of the guy who beat the shit out of me.
30:05Didn't it feel like a movie the last few days?
30:07I feel like that's a great metaphor for life.
30:09You know, we shouldn't be slaves.
30:11We shouldn't be working nine to five jobs.
30:13We should actually make our lives into, I guess, a movie.
30:16I want to be known as one of the best fathers in the war room.
30:21I can't look at my sons and tell them to suck it up, buttercup,
30:25if I don't say yes to this.
30:28Yeah, makes sense.
30:31Whether or not they fought, all the men here paid $5,000
30:35to the only real winner in this performance, Andrew Tate.
30:40For the people who want to stay and relax,
30:42there's some chicks.
30:44Don't know where they're from.
30:46Yeah, let's have fun. I hope you all enjoyed it.
30:51We're told not to film the celebrations that conclude the evening
30:54and it's not clear exactly what goes on.
30:57But once outside the lobby,
30:59we could clearly see a room containing naked women being photographed.
31:06With Andrew's team increasingly conscious of negative publicity,
31:09tonight could be the last chance to interview him.
31:13Do you consider the possibility that some of the things that you've said,
31:17which have been viewed 11 billion times,
31:20may lead to an attitude towards women that could be harmful?
31:25I accept that across all of that viewership,
31:28I have perhaps, possibly, maybe said one thing, or maybe two,
31:33that has upset a large range of people.
31:36Wouldn't it make sense to just apologize for some of the things you've said,
31:39acknowledge that they have caused harm,
31:41and say that you won't say those things again?
31:43No, and I'll tell you why.
31:45I'm not going to apologize for the edits of other people.
31:47I'm not going to apologize for the misunderstandings of other people.
31:50There's a whole bunch of clips people are making which make me look very bad.
31:53That's not good for my life. That's not good for business.
31:55The clips that portray your negative light
31:57also help the algorithm to make you become more famous and more viral.
32:00I'm not an expert on algorithms for social media platforms.
32:03I do not have most of them installed on my phone.
32:05I cannot control what a 15-year-old Singaporean decides to do
32:09when he chops me up and calls me names.
32:11I can't control that, and I wouldn't try to.
32:14There has been a lot of bad press about you.
32:16That's made some nervousness within members of the War Room.
32:19Why is that?
32:20Well, obviously, when people are going to continue to lie
32:23and continue to do very, very shallow,
32:26very, very fictitious investigations,
32:29people are going to lose faith in you.
32:30The media has lost all credibility
32:32because you do not try and portray the truth anymore.
32:35One thing that stands in the way of truth, for example,
32:37is when we often do documentaries,
32:39we have full access to speak to anyone we want.
32:42But in this documentary, we've been very closely watched
32:45by the sartorial shooter, Alpha Wolf,
32:47picking who we can speak to, you know, monitoring the interview.
32:50What is it that you're worried that we're going to find out?
32:52This question is a start, though.
32:53This is low. It's low.
32:55We let you in. We tried to take care of you,
32:57and you're sitting here and just attacking us for three hours.
32:59The world is asking these questions,
33:01and the viewers will be asking these questions.
33:02It's a consistent question, a consistent narrative.
33:05Where's the question about the good he's doing for men?
33:07There's a very clear narrative. I need to leave.
33:10In the days afterwards, Tate is banned from YouTube,
33:13TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram
33:16to the protest of his fans.
33:19They have shut us down.
33:20This is warfare against the West.
33:23For a moment, it seems the deplatforming has worked.
33:28But then, he reappears on Instagram
33:31with an emoji covering his face.
33:33You're lost. You understand you're living inside of a mechanism
33:35which is designed to control you.
33:37He moves to Dubai, converts to Islam,
33:41sets up a new bank entirely owned by him,
33:46and rebrands the Hustlers University as the real world.
33:50In the first month after being deplatformed,
33:53he made $11 million
33:55and got 250 million views on TikTok alone.
34:00Months later, Elon Musk reinstates his Twitter account
34:04and he gains 1 million followers in 24 hours.
34:09I have no criminal charges.
34:10There's no charges at all against me.
34:12I have not hurt any women.
34:13No women are coming forward saying,
34:14Andrew, hit me. Zero.
34:16Andrew maintains that he has never abused a woman.
34:19But when we get back from Romania,
34:21we finally manage to speak to some women from his past.
34:26The big thing that upset me a lot
34:27was everyone saying it's a character,
34:28it's a character, it's a character,
34:29when I know it's not.
34:31To suddenly see him pop up on TikTok
34:36just made me really angry.
34:40I don't know what to do.
34:42I don't know what to do.
34:43It made me really angry
34:46because people don't know what he's done.
34:53Amelia began seeing Andrew in 2013.
34:56Due to fear of harassment from his fans,
34:58she is withholding her real name.
35:01I always knew, even from back in the day,
35:03there was always things said bad about him.
35:05But when I'd seen him again in 2013, I thought,
35:07oh, all these rumours about him,
35:09maybe it's false because he's actually been really lovely.
35:11The first time I went round his house,
35:13because before it was maybe three or four times
35:15we'd gone on dates,
35:17we started to make out on the bed.
35:20Out of the blue,
35:22he literally just stopped what he was doing
35:25and just laid back.
35:27He said,
35:28I'm just contemplating whether I should rape you or not.
35:36I promise you, within an instant,
35:39he changed.
35:40He just jumped straight on top of me,
35:43grabbed my throat,
35:44started suffocating me, strangling me.
35:48The more I didn't want to,
35:49it made him so much more aggressive
35:50to the point where he was pinning me down,
35:52hurting me.
35:53The things he was saying to me,
35:55he was like,
35:56who do you belong to?
35:57Who do you belong to?
35:59And the more I couldn't say it,
36:01the more he'd hurt me.
36:02So I couldn't see an escape.
36:05At that point, I just gave up.
36:07I just gave up.
36:11Then when it stopped,
36:14he went to the bathroom
36:15and acted as if it was normal.
36:18So I'm like,
36:19maybe I did,
36:20did I want it?
36:21Did I not?
36:22I definitely said to him,
36:23please don't, please don't.
36:24And he told me, shut the fuck up.
36:26Definitely got strangled.
36:28I definitely didn't want it.
36:30Did he think I wanted it?
36:32When you look back,
36:33the psychological warfare you have with yourself
36:36is like you couldn't even imagine.
36:37You wouldn't know,
36:38you wouldn't understand it
36:39unless you'd been through it.
36:40Can't even say the damn word.
36:42Have you since come to terms
36:45with the notion that
36:48that may not have been consensual,
36:50that that may have been?
36:51I know for a fact it wasn't consensual.
36:53But it's hard to use the word.
36:56Even though I know technically it's true,
36:58that did happen,
36:59that is what happened to me,
37:01I still don't like vocalizing it.
37:04Amelia's method of coping with the alleged rapes
37:07was to pretend to herself
37:09that it was a normal relationship.
37:11The abuse wasn't consensual
37:13because he knew I didn't want it,
37:15which he confirms in multiple voice messages and texts to me.
37:19Am I a bad person?
37:21Because the more you didn't like it,
37:24the more I enjoyed it.
37:25I fucking loved how much you hated it.
37:27Turn me on.
37:28Are you seriously so offended
37:30I strangled you a little bit?
37:31You didn't fucking pass out.
37:33In all the women I've ever slept with,
37:35not a single one has ever bitched or complained
37:38like you are bitching and complaining now.
37:41Every few months,
37:42Andrew would send me on a different number,
37:44messages to remind me of how dangerous he was.
37:47I thought I'd remind you of the caliber of man I am.
37:50I am one of the most dangerous men on this planet.
37:53Scare tactics to make sure I wouldn't go anywhere,
37:57go to the police,
37:58wouldn't report,
37:59would always be under his control.
38:00It was always to remind me that he was there.
38:03After six months,
38:04Amelia eventually left Andrew
38:06when she says she began to fear for her own life.
38:09In 2014,
38:10she also decided to report the incident to police,
38:13who logged it.
38:14The year after,
38:16I got a phone call from a police officer
38:19from Hertfordshire Police.
38:27She said to me,
38:30we have two other girls
38:32that have come forward
38:34and said the exact same thing as you.
38:39Would you please be willing
38:41to come on to this investigation
38:44to make this case stronger?
38:46And without any hesitation, I said yes.
38:49And I thought, well, if there's two other girls,
38:51I'm not alone now.
38:52I'm not alone.
38:56One of those women was Sally.
38:58She was 20 when Andrew Tate approached her
39:00for webcam work.
39:02Due to fears of harassment from his fan base,
39:04she is also withholding her real name.
39:08First night that I worked for him,
39:10Andrew bought me like five bottles of wine.
39:12So I got completely drunk
39:14because I'd never done webcam work.
39:16So I was very, very nervous.
39:18Then that night,
39:21we were just sitting on the bed
39:22and Andrew punched me in my arm.
39:25I went to the bathroom and cried.
39:27It really, really hurt to have someone
39:29just hit me in the arm for no reason.
39:31I was very confused.
39:33Sorry.
39:36Sorry, I don't want to cry.
39:38It's OK.
39:41So then when I came out of the bathroom,
39:44he was super, super nice.
39:46Like, from what I remember,
39:48Andrew didn't have any alcohol at all.
39:50It was literally just me.
39:52That night, we cuddled and we ended up having sex
39:54and I was really, really drunk.
39:56That was my first night.
39:58Then it was kind of like
40:00every single night I would work.
40:02Were there any other instances
40:04where there was physical abuse?
40:06He used to...
40:08He used to strangle us as well.
40:21There was another time
40:23when he came into the bedroom,
40:25me and the other girl,
40:26we would sleep in the same bed with Andrew.
40:28But at this time, the girl had a partner,
40:30so she was not interested in Andrew at all.
40:32And I had gone to the shower,
40:34I came back and I noticed he was...
40:36Like, I saw him raping her.
40:39And...
40:51When he threatened to beat me up in the bathroom,
40:54and he said,
40:55oh, I don't give a fuck if you call the police,
40:57I'm going to beat the shit out of you,
40:59that's kind of when I knew,
41:01you know, I had to get out of there.
41:03I stopped working for Andrew about March, April time
41:06and I went to the police shortly after that.
41:08Nothing was done, really.
41:10The other girl that he had raped,
41:12she went to the police
41:14and then that's when they arrested him
41:16and took him into custody for, like, two days.
41:19When Andrew was arrested,
41:21we were taken in for a proper interview
41:25and it kind of just got left.
41:28I would send emails asking them to update,
41:30I'd hear nothing back.
41:32When we reached out to Hertfordshire Police about this,
41:35they had this to say.
41:36We acknowledge that there were some delays to the investigation.
41:39This was addressed at the time and apologies were made.
41:42The decision to prosecute based on the police's evidence
41:45would be up to the Crown Prosecution Service.
41:49Unfortunately, they turned around and just said,
41:51oh, we can't continue this case anymore.
41:53It's just insufficient evidence.
41:55They openly said it's really, really difficult to prove rape.
41:58Very difficult.
42:00The Crown Prosecution Service said,
42:02in this case, we carefully reviewed all the evidence
42:04provided by the police regarding each complainant
42:06and concluded it did not meet our legal test
42:08and there was no realistic prospect of a conviction.
42:12In the UK, only one in a hundred reported rapes result in a charge,
42:17let alone a conviction.
42:22In a statement issued via his lawyer in Romania,
42:25Tate denied the assault or rape.
42:27He said,
42:28they wanted money because I fired them,
42:30the police understood after the investigation that I am innocent
42:33and the police found messages from the girls' phones
42:35where they were talking between themselves
42:37and planning to lie about me.
42:39Sally said,
42:40the CPS sent a letter saying that one of the reasons they didn't charge Tate
42:43was because they found voice notes on our phones
42:45where we talked about whether we should tell the police
42:47that he gave us alcohol.
42:49We were talking about it because that is what happened.
42:51He used to get us drunk.
42:54They clearly didn't speak.
42:56A text from a man to a woman saying,
42:58I love raping you.
43:00I know what I do to you is abusive and controlling.
43:04To CPS, apparently, that's not enough.
43:10I did the bravest thing I think I ever done in my life,
43:16which was hell, four years of absolute hell,
43:19going through an investigation without anyone knowing,
43:22and basically to do it alone,
43:26was all a waste.
43:29Despite repeated requests,
43:31Tate's lawyer did not provide a response to Emilia's allegations.
43:36The Romanian investigation into Andrew Tate and his brother
43:39finally led to an arrest on the 29th of December.
43:43The Matrix has attacked me.
43:45Police accused them of using the loverboy method
43:48to traffic at least six women
43:50into a Romania-based webcam sex business.
43:53This is now the second police investigation
43:56into Andrew Tate that we know about.
43:58Andrew and Tristan Tate deny all allegations.
44:01His followers are obsessed with the idea
44:03that The Matrix is conspiring against him.
44:07But if anyone in this story is the victim of a conspiracy,
44:10is it the multi-millionaire celebrity?
44:12Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi!
44:16Or is it the women who claim they were abandoned by the system?
44:21You know, you see all these young men
44:23talking about how he's such a great guy
44:26and he's their idol and stuff,
44:28and that's so difficult to see.
44:30There are better real worlds out there.
44:32Don't be fooled by all the money
44:34and the nice cars and all the women.
44:37Working on yourself and becoming a better man
44:40and a better mindset, yeah,
44:42but real men don't lay their hands on women.