Controversial misogynist influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by U.S. Marshals in Miami on Saturday as UK officials announced a series of 38 new charges against the brothers.
“We have decided to prosecute Andrew and Tristan Tate for further offenses including rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offenses relating to indecent images of a child,” Malcolm McHaffie, head of the Special Crime Division at the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement.
British officials are now seeking to extradite the brothers to face prosecution for both the new charges and several preexisting allegations.
Authorities are seeking new charges against Andrew Tate, 39, including three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offenses related to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, the prosecution service said.
Tristan Tate, 38, will be hit with additional charges including one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, according to officials.
The new offenses allegedly took place between July 2010 and August 2017 and relate to four victims, prosecutors said. The brothers were previously charged in the UK with 21 counts related to three other alleged victims. The Tates have denied all wrongdoing.
Joseph D. McBride, an attorney for the Tate brothers, said he had not yet seen the new allegations but told The Independent in a phone interview that they sounded like “madness,” claiming that there was not a “shred of evidence” his clients were guilty of such abuses.
He added that the Tates were victims of “political persecution” in the UK and claimed the charges were an attempt to “disrupt the judicial process” in the United States, where Florida’s state Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation into the brothers last year.
The Independent has requested comment from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Justice.
Andrew Tate, a former professional kickboxer turned “manosphere” media personality, was slated to cohost a bareknuckle boxing event on Saturday before he was arrested, TMZ reports.
Prior to their time in the U.S., the Tate brothers had been living in Romania, where they were arrested in 2022 and accused of luring women for sexual exploitation.
They denied the allegations and the Romanian case has progressed haltingly. In 2025, Romanian officials allowed the Tates to leave the country, and they headed to America last February.
McBride, the Tate attorney, said there was a “longstanding agreement” between the UK and Romania not to extradite the Tates to Britain because they were still “dealing with the court process” in Romania. He vowed to “bring down hellfire and brimstone” against UK officials for the extradition bid.
The Tates reportedly enjoy ties to high-level to right-wing media figures and individuals in President Donald Trump’s circle.
Andrew Tate and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., reportedly met at Trump Tower in 2017 and have remained in touch intermittently.
Another of the president’s sons, Barron, is reportedly a fan of Tate’s and spoke to Andrew over Zoom in 2024, according to The New York Times. The Tates called that reporting “fake news” at the time.
Alina Habba, who worked as an attorney for Donald Trump and briefly served as New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney last year, described herself as a “big fan” of Andrew Tate in a joint January 2025 podcast appearance.
Andrew Tate has claimed the Trump administration aided his exit from Romania, which the White House has not confirmed.
The Independent has requested comment from the White House about the arrest of the Tates and past allegations the administration helped them overcome travel restrictions from Romania.
