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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse | The New Yorker

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How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

Just north of Bucharest is a neat development of red-gabled houses known as American Village. It is an unlikely place to be the center of an international criminal intrigue, but on its western border is a sprawling compound, patrolled by armed guards, that belongs to the British American influencer Andrew Tate and his younger brother, Tristan. The Tates moved to Romania a decade ago to build an online-pornography empire, and American Village was where they kept their recruits. One day in April, 2022, Iasmina Pencov was in a villa near the compound, recovering from surgery. A slender,…

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