Iasmina Pencov texted Andrew Tate that she was old fashioned, believed in God and thought her body was intimate, something only her husband should touch and see. Within months, the woman who wrote that message was staging live sex shows through the night, posting pornography on OnlyFans and telling Tate she loved him enough to fight for him, compromise for him and sacrifice herself for him.
The transformation sits at the center of a new portrait of the Tate brothers that describes how Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate built an alleged sexual slavery and online-pornography operation from a guarded compound near Bucharest, Romania. The report says the brothers, who moved to Romania from the United Kingdom in 2015, used private messages, videos, Telegram chats, sealed prosecutorial files and court records to show how women were recruited, controlled and pushed into sex work while the operation was dressed up as a path to money, status and power.
Pencov’s story carries the human cost of that machine. In April 2022, she was recovering from surgery in a villa near the compound after meeting Andrew Tate the previous year and agreeing to move across Romania to be with him. He told her he considered her his wife, then first asked her to strip on camera. When she pushed back, he wrote in private messages that he had identified her objections and destroyed them, and that women never believe in anything.
The brothers lived in a compound near Bucharest patrolled by armed guards and used American Village, a development just north of the city, to keep recruits. Pencov was later entrusted with supervising new arrivals there. The report says the Tates paid to have her teeth fixed and then her breasts enlarged, while the words Tate Owned were tattooed across her upper arm along with a cobra, the insignia Andrew Tate used for himself.
The broader business was not confined to one villa or one woman. Tate ran an online network called the War Room, where members paid about eight thousand dollars a year and were told the aim was to free the modern man from socially induced incarceration. Inside it, members learned how to recruit women into sexual slavery through tutorials Tate called his Ph.D., or Pimping Hoes Degree. He said he had done this with over 100 girls, and in one video sold to members he said, “You have to fuck them, and they have to love you. It’s essential to the business,” and “You have to be militant with your fucking pimping.”
The messages and videos also underline how carefully the alleged operation was wrapped in affection, influence and dependence. Pencov texted Tate that she loved him enough to fight for him, compromise for him and sacrifice herself for him, even as the report says he told her he had broken down her objections. In a separate private exchange, Tate wrote, “She never believed in god. Women never believe in anything.”
The accounts also point to a larger pattern around the brothers before they reached Romania. Three British women accused Andrew Tate of rape and strangulation before the move, and court records cited in the report say local police sat on at least two reports indicating the Tates were coercing Romanian women into sex work. Tate also openly discussed bribing law-enforcement officials in War Room chats and boasted on social media about his connections, writing in a deleted post that everyone wants to be friends with the pimp, that Epstein had access to pussy and to look at his fucking friends list.
What happens next is less clear than the evidence now in public view. The report does not point to a new court date or fresh filing, but it does leave prosecutors, police and the brothers’ accusers facing the same question the messages and records raise: whether the files already assembled are enough to force a legal reckoning in Romania.
