13 things about Nashville, Tennessee’s Tarek Mentouri

Tarek Isaak Mentouri is a former massage therapist originally from Nashville, Tennessee, United States. He is registered as a sex offender in Tennessee.

BIOGRAPHY

Mentouri is 5’9″ tall and his registered weight is 163 pounds. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 2013, he appeared on Judge Greg Mathis’s show “Judge Mathis” and sued a girl who did not pay him for foot massages.
2. In 2015, he appeared on the MTV show “Catfish“.
3. In 2017, a woman accused him of sexual assault.
4. In 2018, a woman accused him of sexual assault.
5. In 2019, a female massage client accused him of violating her.
6. He owned a 2019 white BMW 330 sedan.
7. In 2020, his massage therapy license was revoked and he appeared on Dr. Phil McGraw’s show “Dr. Phil“.
8. In 2021, he was arrested in Nashville three times.
9. At least 25 women accused him of sexual abuse before his arrests in 2021.
10. In 2022, he was convicted of six charges.
11. In 2024, he filed a motion for a shorter prison sentence, which was not granted.
12. He claimed in court in 2024 that he was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome in 2004 but he had offered no proof of his diagnosis, according to assistant district attorney Doug Thurman.
13. On February 8, 2025, he turned 37.

TIMELINE

Aside from Nashville, Mentouri has lived in other parts of Tennessee including Brentwood. He has lived in different parts of Georgia, USA including Atlanta, Buford, Duluth and Statesboro.

2015

• He appeared on “Catfish” Season 4 episode 2, which aired on MTV on March 4, 2015. In this episode, he introduced himself as Isaak and confessed to catfishing a woman from Georgia named Courtney. The episode featured Miss Teen USA 2013 Cassidy Wolf alongside host Nev Schulman.

2017

• On September 13, 2017, a woman filed a complaint against him accusing him of provocative sexual assault.

2018

• On February 6, 2018, Kelly Cochrane of Brentwood, Tennessee filed a complaint with the Tennessee Department of Health about him.
• On December 20, 2018, he allegedly sexually assaulted another Brentwood woman who went to him for massage.

2019

• On July 26, 2019, he committed sexual battery.
• On March 19, 2019, Julia Stone of Clarskville, Tennessee filed a police report against him, accusing him of violating her during massage.

2020

• On January 11, 2020, he committed sexual battery.
• On February 23, 2020, he committed sexual battery.
• On March 2, 2020, three different women filed three police reports on him with different precincts.
• In August 2020, the Tennessee Massage Licensing Board revoked his license as a massage therapist after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct with clients during appointments. He allegedly continued booking massages after this.
• In October 2020, he appeared on “Dr. Phil.”

2021

• On March 13, 2021, Metro Nashville Police Department officers conducted an undercover deal with him for a massage at his Nashville residence. They arrested him before the massage after he was paid. He was charged with impersonation of a licensed professional. In the evening, he was released from jail on a bond. After his release, he allegedly posted a Craigslist ad asking for help running his Airbnb and caring for his mother who is fighting cancer.
• On April 30, 2021, a woman allegedly arrived for a job interview at his Nashville residence to be his personal assistant. Instead of an interview, he allegedly asked if he could massage her feet then masturbated.
• On May 13, 2021, MNPD officers arrested him again. A grand jury indicted him on charges of sexual battery, assault, harassment, rape and kidnapping involving nine female victims. He was booked into the Davidson County Jail in Nashville on a $500,000 bond.
• On May 21, 2021, he was arrested again on sex crimes charges, including rape and kidnapping.
• On June 2, 2021, he appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to rape, kidnapping, two counts of harassment, five counts of assault (offensive contact) and eight counts of sexual battery.
• On June 23, 2021, the woman who allegedly arrived for a job interview at his Nashville residence on April 13, 2021 testified in court, making her the 19th woman to accuse him of a sex crime. The court allowed him to move from Nashville to Duluth to care for his sick mother while he was awaiting trial and prohibited him from giving massages.
• On August 18, 2021, he committed criminal impersonation.
• In December 2021, he allegedly sent a Duluth woman a message via Next Door saying “Do you like massages?” and “I still want to give you neck and foot massage.” That month, Duluth Police Department officers went to his Duluth address after receiving a text message saying “help” from his cellphone. He told the officers, “Maybe I texted by mistake. What was the number? I know I don’t need anything but I might’ve texted.”

2022

• On January 14, 2022, prosecutors argued that he should lose all internet access because of his behavior towards a Duluth woman in December 2021 but Judge Jennifer Smith ruled he had not violated the terms of his bond despite her own concerns about his actions.
• On November 30, 2022, he pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of criminal impersonation, two misdemeanor assault charges and three felony counts of sexual battery as part of a plea deal that will place him on the sex offender registry and sentence him to prison for six years.
• In December 2022, he was convicted of the six charges.

2023

• On August 14, 2023, he had his first parole hearing. A parole official recommended no parole for him and recommended he not be eligible for parole again until 2026.

2024

• On January 31, 2024, he appeared in court before Smith, who rejected his request for a shorter prison sentence. He apologized to Peyton Parker, one of his victims, who was in court with her mother.
• In May 2024, WSMV published a jailhouse interview with him.