Overview

• On July 15, Southern released free excerpts of her memoir on Substack, saying the chapters were not intended to profit from her account of the alleged incident.
• She describes feeling incapacitated after one cocktail and a shot in Bucharest, then being carried to her hotel room where she alleges Tate repeatedly strangled her when she resisted his advances.
• The next day, Tate took to X to reject the claim as a marketing ploy and threatened to publish text messages he says contradict Southern’s narrative.
• Southern’s account echoes previous reports of choking tactics cited by other alleged victims, reinforcing patterns noted in ongoing criminal probes.
• Both Andrew and Tristan Tate remain under house arrest in Romania and face upcoming trafficking, rape and organized exploitation charges in Romania and the UK.