Overview

• Four anonymous women allege Tate subjected them to physical or sexual violence between 2013 and 2015, including gun threats, strangulation and belt assaults.
• A preliminary hearing in London set the trial to begin on 22 June 2026 and indicated it could last up to five weeks.
• The lawsuit may be a legal first in determining whether coercive control can constitute intentional infliction of harm in a civil context.
• The action follows the Crown Prosecution Service’s 2019 decision not to bring criminal charges over the same allegations.
• Tate and his brother Tristan face separate criminal prosecutions in Romania for alleged trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering.