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Daria Gușă, now 19 years old, recalls when Tate was actively trying to pursue her and her friends when they were still in high school. She told BuzzFeed News that Tate used to slide into her DMs on Instagram back in 2020 when she was just 16 years old.
Gușă, the daughter of former Romanian politician Cozmin Gușă, shared that Tate's first message to her read, "Romanian girl," followed by a strawberry emoji.
Gușă backed up her allegations with a screenshot of the DM that she provided to BuzzFeed, though the account could not be confirmed as Tate's since his profile had been removed from the platform in August 2022.
The Romanian teen also noted that it was clear she was in high school when Tate purportedly messaged her, as her bio included the name of the school she attended.
To make matters worse, Gușă alleges that Tate also slid into the DMs of multiple classmates with the same message.
"We were just high school girls with not that many followers," Gușă told BuzzFeed, while Tate reportedly had 1.2 million followers at the time.
Gușă confessed that she didn't engage in a conversation with Tate but that some of her classmates did.
She said he would message the young teens compliments, "telling them how beautiful they are."
Tate would allegedly also brag about his wealth — "like what expensive restaurants he can take them to, what expensive cars he has, stuff like that," Gușă added.
After messaging the girls back and forth, Tate would "start asking where they are and when he can come pick them up," Gușă told BuzzFeed.
None of the young girls who went to school with Gușă ever met up with Tate, but he was purportedly persistent in his communication.
The influencer allegedly took offence to their hesitation to meet him and reacted by insulting them instead.
"The second girls stopped replying to him, he starts getting a bit verbally abusive, calling them ugly and stuff like that, just to get the reaction out of them and keep engaging with them," Gușă said.
Gușă shared with BuzzFeed that she feels comfortable enough to open up about her experience given her family's privileged background and the protection she feels from her father being a prominent figure in Romanian politics.
However, her classmates don't feel they have the same protection from Tate and his team, she said.
"I tried communicating with them since this started because it's the biggest scandal in Romania right now," Gușă explained. "But my friends are just scared. They're young girls."
"They don't want to be involved in any way," she told BuzzFeed. "Because there's also the thing, what if they [Tate and the other three people detained with him] don't get locked up? What if the authorities let them go in a month? And then they're out and trying to get us because we came out with this thing?”
Tate, his brother Tristan Tate and two others were taken into custody by Romanian authorities on December 29 over allegations of human trafficking and rape and are currently being investigated for the crimes.
Since Tate's arrest, victims alleging he sexually assaulted them have come out with evidence against him, including harrowing WhatsApp messages obtained and revealed by Vice World News.
A woman who accused Tate of raping her revealed messages and voice notes she received back in 2013, including one that said, "I love raping you."
In one of the voice notes, Tate seemingly admits to raping her and says, "Am I a bad person? Because the more you didn't like it, the more I enjoyed it. I f**king loved how much you hated it. It turned me on. Why am I like that? Why?"
The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, shared with Vice that she filed a police complaint about the alleged sexual assault and abuse from Tate but said the police told her they wouldn’t prosecute, despite believing her.
She told the outlet that she met Tate in 2009 and that the rape occurred in November 2013 when she went to his apartment for the first time.
After the alleged rape, Tate apparently continued to send her messages about what he had done to her, including one that said, "Monsters are monsters. When ur under my control, I do whatever I please."
He told her she was lucky to have been raped by him, including several other disturbing messages, per Vice.
According to Rolling Stone, along with their arrests, prosecutors have also seized multiple luxury cars and 10 properties or parcels of land owned by companies registered to the Tate brothers.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, a spokesperson for the Tate brothers said both Andrew and Tristan "vehemently deny all accusations made against them" and that "they do not condone violence towards women or agree with any coercive behaviour."
Tate is still currently locked up, and his appeal to be released from his 30-day detention was rejected by a Romanian court on Tuesday, reported Forbes.
