By Ej Dickson. In the messages, which sources close to the War Room verified to Rolling Stone, Tate appears to be boasting about manipulating one of his girlfriends into doing sex work for him. She did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The messages paint a lurid and often disturbing image of the process by which Tate allegedly recruited young women to do his bidding using a combination of lies, manipulation, and coercive tactics, all the while using examples of his conversations as teaching methods for his acolytes and inviting feedback from them.
Tate and his brother Tristan, who also shows up in the leaked War Room chats, were arrested in Bucharest in December and detained on suspicion of sex trafficking, rape, and organized crime, and are currently on house arrest. The Tates have strongly denied these allegations. As Rolling Stone previously reported , the Tate brothers are the head of the War Room, an exclusive social network and Telegram channel providing members with access to their teachings on sex and masculinity.
Though Tate associates have classified it as little more than an innocuous self-help brotherhood, sources familiar with the War Room have claimed that it served as a forum for coercing women to do online sex work for members. So in order to make her more dependent on him, he writes, he made up a story that he had spoken to friends of hers who had claimed she had worked at a sex club prior to meeting him, prompting him to become angry at her and threaten to kick her out.
In the texts, Tate appears to explain how this lie succeeds in putting the woman on the defensive and making her more dependent on him. We are together. According to the leaked messages, however, War Room members appear to view isolation as key to getting women to do their bidding.
When reached for comment, a spokesperson for the Tates cast doubt on the source of the leaked messages, saying that some of the accounts that had shared them on social media came from newly created accounts.
