A Los Angeles model who says she dated Andrew Tate for 10 months and alleges in a lawsuit that the online influencer threatened and abused her said she feared for her life during a violent sexual encounter with him this month.
“I was scared to death,” Brianna Stern told NBC News on Friday. “So scared I was terrified that I might die.”
Stern, in her first interview since filing the lawsuit Thursday, said she has received online threats after coming forward about her experience dating Tate, a self-described misogynist and anti-feminist with millions of followers on social media.
“I’m scared of him,” Stern said, adding, “No one has ever really spoken out against him before.”
Stern declined to speak directly about the complaint, which was filed in the Superior Court of Los Angeles and accuses Tate, 38, of sexual assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
A lawyer for Tate on Friday denied Stern’s allegations as “unfounded and sensational.”
She said she first met Tate and his brother, Tristan, when they invited her last summer to Romania to participate in photo shoots related to content creation for their cryptocurrency meme coin.
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