Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrested in Miami over 38 new criminal charges in UK
Controversial misogynists Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by U.K. police officers in Miami on Saturday. Announces a set of 38 new charges against siblings.
“We have decided to prosecute Andrew and Tristan Tate for further offences, including rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and offenses relating to indecent images of a child,” Malcolm McHaffie, head of the Special Crime Section of the UK Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement.
British authorities are now trying to extradite the brothers to face prosecution on both new charges and several pre-existing allegations.
Authorities are seeking new charges against Andrew Tate, 39, including three counts of arranging or facilitating human trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offenses related to indecent images of children and extreme pornography, the prosecutor’s office said.
Tristan Tate, 38, faces additional charges including one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating human trafficking for sexual exploitation, according to authorities.
The new alleged crimes occurred between July 2010 and August 2017 and involved four victims, prosecutors said. The brothers were previously charged in the UK with 21 charges relating to three other victims. Tates denied all wrongdoing.
The Tate brothers’ lawyer, Joseph D. McBride, said that he had not yet seen the new allegations, but said: Independent He claimed in a phone interview that there was “not a shred of evidence” that his clients were guilty of such abuses, saying they sounded like “crazy.”
He added that the Tates were victims of “political persecution” in the United Kingdom and claimed the charges were an attempt to “subvert due process” in the United States, where Florida state Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation into the brothers last year.
Independent He requested comment from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Justice.
Andrew Tate, a former professional kickboxer turned “manosphere” media personality, was scheduled to host a bareknuckle boxing event on Saturday before his arrest, TMZ reports.
Before coming to the United States, the Tate brothers lived in Romania, where they were arrested in 2022 and accused of inciting women to sexually abuse them.
They denied the allegations and the Romanian case proceeded haltingly. In 2025, Romanian authorities allowed the Tates to leave the country, and they set off for America last February.
Tate’s lawyer, McBride, said there was a “long-standing agreement” between Britain and Romania not to extradite Tates to Britain because they were still “dealing with the court process” in Romania. He vowed to “bring down hellfire and brimstone” against UK authorities for the extradition bid.
Tates reportedly has ties to high-profile and right-wing media figures and people in President Donald Trump’s circle.
Andrew Tate and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., reportedly met at Trump Tower in 2017 and remained in touch intermittently.
Barron, one of the president’s other sons, is also reportedly a fan of Tate and spoke to Andrew via Zoom in 2024. accordingly New York Times. Tates called this reporting “fake news” at the time.
Alina Habba, who worked and briefly served as Donald Trump’s lawyer last year as New Jersey U.S. Attorney.During a joint podcast appearance in January 2025, he described himself as a “huge fan” of Andrew Tate.
Andrew Tate He claimed he helped break up the Trump administration From Romania, which the White House does not approve of.
Independent He requested comment from the White House about Tates’ arrest and past allegations that he helped the administration get around travel restrictions from Romania.
