DISGRACED influencer Andrew Tate’s mother “isn’t happy” with his misogynistic rants and says she “didn’t raise him like that,” according to those close to her.
Eileen Tate, who is still believed to live in the notorious Luton council estate where she raised her children, has reportedly spoken out about her son’s actions.
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Andrew, 36, and his younger brother Tristan, 34, are accused of leading a human trafficking ring, rape, and organised crime.
The pair were arrested last month in Romania along with two other women.
They are alleged to have lured women to the brothers’ £600k villa on the outskirts of the Romanian capital Bucharest.
There, at least six women were reportedly forced to perform in sexually explicit videos which were then sold online
The brothers will be held in custody until the end of January while cops continue their inquiries.
Tate has denied all the allegations against him.
It is a far cry from their upbringing on Luton’s infamous Marsh Farm estate, where Eileen still lives in a 1970s end-of-terrace house.
The former school kitchen assistant raised the Tate brothers and their younger sister Janine in her hometown of Luton after divorcing her children’s father in 1997.
A family friend told MailOnline: “She doesn’t like what’s going on.”
They added: “I don’t think she is happy with what Andrew says, the misogyny.
“She says he says these things for the response he gets – for the number of hits on the internet.
“He’s always going on about fast cars and what a man should be, but Eileen didn’t raise him like that.”
He’s always going on about fast cars and what a man should be, but Eileen didn’t raise him like that
Family friend
And a relative of Tate’s late father has also claimed he would be ashamed of his sons’ actions.
Emory Tate Junior, a US Air Force serviceman, met Janine at Chicksands Ministry of Defence airbase in Bedfordshire in the mid-1980s, where he was based at the time.
The couple married and moved to Chicago, where Andrew was born, before travelling to Berlin with Emory’s work.
A talented linguist, Emory was a five-time US Armed Forces chess champion and became a global figure in the game by the mid-1980s.
But with his work and his chess career, he was often absent from home, and he and Eileen eventually divorced.
However, her children remained in contact with their father right up until his death, in the middle of a chess game at a tournament near San Jose, California in October 2015.
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Melvin Cox, 65, Emory’s cousin, told the Mail: “As far as I’m concerned their dad would have respected their business acumen but he wasn’t into misogyny or anything like that. He was a nice guy and a hell of a chess player.”
Despite her apparent disapproval at her sons’ actions, Eileen is reported to have visited the pair’s Romanian villa before their arrests.
A family friend described former kickboxer Andrew Tate as a “mummy’s boy” whose vile persona is a million miles from what he was like growing up.
“He was not the big ‘I am’,” they remembered. “None of us would have seen any of this coming.”
They added: “I think the whole family is gobsmacked by what’s happened.”
The friend also said Andrew’s “outdated” claims that women should stay at home are particularly bizarre given that Eileen raised three children as a working single mother.
Controversial Tate initially gained fame after a short-lived appearance on Big Brother.
He was dumped from the reality show after alleged footage of him beating a woman emerged online.
Since then he has sparked revulsion and outrage with a wave of content online.
It has since been revealed that Andrew Tate was arrested on suspicion of rape in Luton in 2015 before his appearance on Big Brother.
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Tate has been accused of violently abusing two women while running a webcam business in the UK, with one telling Vice News he raped her, while the second claimed Tate repeatedly strangled both of them.
The influencer is understood to have denied the latest allegations.
