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Carla Howe, a former Playboy model, claims internet personality Andrew Tate tried to lure her to Romania in the months leading up to his recent arrest.
Tate, his brother Tristan, and and two Romanian women currently face several years in prison after being arrested on charges of involvement in human trafficking, rape, and organized crime.
Over the weekend, it was revealed to The Daily Mail that Howe believes she may have been one of Andrew Tate’s intended victims.
The former Playboy model claims the tactics they used on her was very similar to the way Tate and his brother, according to Romanian prosecutors, allegedly used to ingratiate themselves to potential victims.
“He wanted me to go to Romania and I was tempted. It makes me think now how it could have gone terribly. I’d probably have ended up not leaving the house ever,” Howe told friends.
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At first she told him she couldn’t ‘come to another country to meet someone I’ve never met’.
But she reconsidered and spoke to a friend who agreed to go with her in August.
In the end she did not travel there as their communications stopped abruptly when Tate was banned from the social media platform.
“I had a lucky escape. I thought I would give him a chance and was tempted to have a relationship with him,” Howe told friends. “Maybe God saved me from that happening.
“Things could have turned out very differently if I had gone – I hate to think.”
“A lot of people think that as he is famous he wouldn’t do anything bad but we’re in a new day and age,” she continued. “Just because of who he is doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of other things.
“I had so many people contacting me after he was arrested. I was like ‘Oh my God – it gets worse.'”
Ms Howe told friends how she didn’t know who Tate was when he first made contact and was quickly warned off after being alerted to his ‘disgusting misogynistic’ views.
Her friend said: ‘She was getting messages saying he was so disgusting – the way he talks about girls. That put her off in the beginning but the way he spoke to her was very, very nice and charming.
‘It made her think some of the controversial things he was saying in public were just for show and for the camera.’
Howe was training at the time to take part in a planned boxing match against former Love Island star AJ Bunker on a KSI-promoted MisFits show.
The fight didn’t happen after she suffered a cracked rib in sparring. She ended up eventually being a ring card girl at one of Floyd Mayweather’s fight instead.