3 Sex Abuse Cases in 2 Countries: Influencer Andrew Tate Still Walking Free
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
New assault claims against the Tate brothers. Lauren Southern, a right-wing Canadian political influencer, writes in her Substack that she met Andrew Tate on a trip to Bucharest.
At 22, Southern approached Tate with a business proposition. She says on that 2018 trip, Tate choked and assaulted her while she was intoxicated. The self-published memoir is titled “This Is Not Real Life.”
Kickboxer and media influencer Andrew Tate is charged with rape, human trafficking, and more. He's now facing three sex abuse legal battles in two countries.
Tate and his brother were taken into custody in Romania, where they live. Prosecutors say the Tates and two associates formed an organized criminal group to groom and sexually traffic women in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Romania.
The indictment names seven women who say the Tate brothers recruited them with false promises, including love and marriage, but instead took them to buildings where they intimidated them, watched over them constantly, forcing them into debt and pornography.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Greg Ahlgren – International Attorney-at-Law at the US-MX Law Group, Ltd. & DRT Alliance/Diaz Reus International Law Firm
- Dr. Joni Johnston – Forensic Psychologist and Private Investigator (performs risk and threat assessments on violent offenders); Author: “Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask”
- Sheryl McCollum – Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder & Host of New Podcast: “Zone 7;" X: @149Zone7
- Lee Reiber – Mobile Device Forensic Expert, COO: Oxygen Forensics, Inc., Author: “Mobile Forensic Investigations: A Guide to Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Presentation”
- Dawn Schiller (Los Angeles, CA)- Training Director for the L.A. County Project at Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), Lived Experience Expert Consultant, and Best-selling Author: “The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes;" Also a National Speaker, Educator and Mentor; Twitter: @DawnSchiller, Instagram: DawnSchiller55, Facebook: Author Dawn Schiller
- Caitlyn Becker (Los Angeles, CA) - Senior Reporter for Dailymail.com; Twitter: @caitlynbecker
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.6 | It's not over yet for the allegedly horrific and misogynist Tate brothers. |
| 0:19.9 | As of tonight, a former alt-right influencer named Lauren Southern is accusing Andrew Tate of sex assault. |
| 0:31.1 | I wish you look. |
| 0:33.0 | I wish you luck, Lauren Southern, because you're not the first to allege it, yet somehow miraculously, |
| 0:39.4 | they're still walking free. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:48.1 | A former YouTuber, Lauren Southern, accused the, quote, Manosphereosphere influencer and alleged rapist Andrew Tate of sex |
| 0:59.8 | assault. She's written a memoir called This is Not Real Life and in it she says Tate assaulted her |
| 1:08.3 | after they met when she was just 22 years old. |
| 1:11.7 | Now, she's released several chapters of her book, and it's on Substack. |
| 1:16.6 | And she says she released them because they, quote, were not written with the intention of profiting of the incident. |
| 1:23.6 | Now, in the excerpts from her memoir, she describes traveling to Romania with the British |
| 1:30.7 | white supremacist, Tommy Robinson, to pitch Tate and his hench person, brother Tristan, to invest in |
| 1:43.1 | their right-wing media startup. |
| 1:47.5 | Now, at first she says she and Andrew Tate went out to dinner and he was flirtatious and charming. |
| 1:54.3 | Her words, not mine, because he looks like the devil to me. |
| 1:59.1 | I don't know how anybody could think he was flirtatious and charming. |
| 2:02.5 | But that said, that's just me. Then she says things started to seem quote off. Now, listen, |
| 2:09.7 | I've written it in books. I've had experts tell you a million times when something sings off. |
| 2:15.5 | Get the H-E-L-L-O-O-T. Leave. She said things seemed off. Now, these are allegations |
| 2:24.4 | made in a memoir. These have not been proven in a court of law. So Tate again is innocent |
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