Media Release: 77,000 sign petition calling on Spotify to pull Andrew Tate courses on how to traffic women

Streaming service Spotify is hosting instructional courses by alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate advising prospective pimps and traffickers how to recruit and sell women on pornographic websites.

The courses include tips on how to manipulate and coerce women and establish dominance and control over them. Tate encourages listeners to recruit women into the sex trade under the pretence of a romantic relationship, and to keep the women’s earnings giving her only a small cut.

A petition by trauma counsellor Renee Chopping – who has counselled survivors of sex trafficking – calling on Spotify to remove them has attracted over 77, 000 signatures.

“I’ve counselled survivors - some trafficked as young as 9 - who have endured repeated abuse at the hands of men who used the same tactics Tate brags about,” Ms Chopping said.

“It takes years, if not a lifetime, of rehabilitative care to undo the damage, yet Tate boasts about profiting from their pain.

“And Spotify is helping him cash in.”

A number of survivors have added their support to the petition.

In response to the petition, Spotify has removed two of Tate’s trafficking courses, but the PHD [Pimping Hoes Degree] – which Tate describes as his recruitment system – remains.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been charged with trafficking women across Romania, Britain and the US. Romanian authorities are also investigating the brothers for trafficking minors.

Contact:

Renee Chopping [email protected]

Caitlin Roper [email protected]

13 March 2025