Andrew Tate has responded to allegations by a former girlfriend that he caused her to be detained by authorities in Dubai and is entitled to nearly $30,000 in sanctions, denying her allegations completely and saying that any holdover she experienced there was caused by law enforcement and not him.
Brianna Stern, a 29-year-old model who dated Tate for nearly a year, filed a civil lawsuit against Tate for sexual assault and battery in Santa Monica Superior Court on March 27. She alleges the former professional kickboxer sexually abused her in a room of the Beverly Hills Hotel in March. Tate lives in Romania and Dubai and holds dual U.S. and United Kingdom citizenships.
“I did not submit falsified evidence to Dubai Police, did not fabricate social media posts and did not impersonate Ms. Stern in any filing,” Tate says in a sworn declaration filed Monday in opposition to the sanctions motion. “Any allegation that I did so is false.”
In her motion for sanctions, Stern alleges Tate set a trap for her in Dubai by creating falsified tweets to support a criminal complaint against her, i.e. impersonating her, so that she would be unable to leave Dubai if she traveled there for work, all in alleged violation of a restraining order she obtained against him earlier this year.
“Tate has sought directly to intimidate plaintiff and has harmed her in the process,” Stern’s court papers state. Tate’s actions, which, in addition to threatening her life and livelihood, were designed to prohibit Stern from pursuing this (lawsuit)…”
Stern is asking for at least $29,500 in sanctions against Tate to compensate her for hiring a Dubai attorney to obtain her permission to return to the U.S. A hearing on her motion is scheduled Jan. 6.
But Tate maintains any consequences Stern experienced in Dubai, located in the United Arab Emirates, resulted from the independent actions of UAE authorities enforcing their own laws and procedures and not from any action taken by him.
“I did not request that a travel ban be imposed, did not control whether any travel restriction was entered and had no authority over whether such a restriction was enforced, continued or lifted,” Tate says.
In her lawsuit, Stern says that during the March encounter at the Beverly Hills Hotel, she initially agreed to being intimate with Tate, but not to the alleged violence that followed.
“I did not consent to being choked, hit and verbally abused, and as stated I asked and begged Tate to stop,” Stern says. “I left the next morning as soon as I felt I could.”
Stern says she was later diagnosed with post-concussive syndrome. Tate has countersued Stern, alleging she knew her abuse allegations against him were false given that she was a “direct participant” in their consensual encounters.”
Tate filed the countersuit Aug. 12. Trial is scheduled June 14, 2027.