Andrew Tate and brother Tristan get scooped up by US Marshals in Miami over sealed UK rape and trafficking charges.
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan got picked up by U.S. Marshals in Miami on Saturday.
Andrew was just hours from co-hosting a bare-knuckle boxing event downtown when it happened. The pair got taken into custody on a sealed federal warrant, according to TMZ.
The arrest happened right outside the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami, where the IBA Bareknuckle 6 card was scheduled for that same night. Andrew had been booked to co-host the event before U.S. Marshals showed up instead.
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The Justice Department confirmed the arrest came through formal extradition proceedings based on treaties between the U.S. and the U.K. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service says four more women have come forward, and prosecutors now count seven alleged victims in the case.
Andrew now faces seven counts of rape plus more than a dozen additional charges tied to trafficking and child exploitation material.
Tristan is facing two rape counts of his own, along with additional trafficking charges tied to the same case. The brothers moved to Romania back in 2016 and spent years fighting a separate human trafficking case there. That case collapsed over legal technicalities before ever reaching trial.
The alleged abuse behind the U.K. charges stretches from July 2010 to August 2017, years before either brother built an online following.
This isn’t the first time Andrew has made Miami headlines this year. Back in January, he got dragged online after getting filmed dancing to Kanye West’s banned track at a South Beach club.
Andrew has turned himself into a self-made guru for men, pulling in more than 10 million followers on X alone. He’s been banned from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube over hate speech violations, but that hasn’t slowed him down.
The Tates’ attorney, Joseph McBride, is calling the case a political setup instead of real justice.
He says the extradition push is designed to bury the brothers in paperwork so they never get a fair shot before an American jury. He’s confident a judge will eventually clear them both, according to CBS Miami.
Both brothers are due in a Miami federal courtroom sometime next week to answer the extradition request. Prosecutors haven’t said yet whether the Tates plan to fight extradition or return voluntarily to the U.K.
The alleged abuse behind the U.K. charges stretches from July 2010 to August 2017, years before either brother built an online following.
