Tate attorney calls charges ‘filth and slander’ as brothers held in US custody
British prosecutors announced new criminal charges against social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, alleging a pattern of sexual offenses against multiple victims, while U.S. federal authorities took the brothers into custody in Miami to face extradition proceedings.
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service said Andrew Tate, 39, was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as additional charges related to alleged crimes including sex trafficking and child pornography. Tristan Tate, 37, was charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape, and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The alleged offending took place between July 2010 and August 2017, prosecutors said. The Tates have previously denied any wrongdoing.
“These charging decisions followed receipt of a further file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police and bring the total number of alleged victims in this case to seven,” Malcolm McHaffie, Head of the Special Crime Division at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement.
The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to the BBC that the Tates had been taken into custody. A U.S. Department of Justice spokesperson said the arrests were “pursuant to extradition proceedings.” The CPS said prosecutors would seek to extradite the brothers, who are dual British-U.S. citizens, from the United States.
Joseph McBride, a lawyer representing the Tates, described the new charges as “filth and slander” brought to counter defamation claims the brothers had filed in the U.S.
“They’re pulling out all the stops to make sure these guys never get their day in court,” McBride told the Associated Press. “We are confident that once a competent judge sees the facts, and once the Department of Justice confronts this egregious abuse of its own authority, Andrew and Tristan Tate will walk free. America does not do Britain’s political dirty work,” he continued.
In May 2025, prosecutors confirmed a list of 21 charges Andrew Tate, 39, and Tristan Tate, 37, will eventually face in the UK. These alleged offences are said to have taken place between 2012 and 2016.
In 2024, Bedfordshire Police secured European arrest warrants to have the Tates returned from Romania, where they are based and remain under criminal investigation. This past June, the brothers lost a legal bid to be told the names of their UK accusers, after the CPS argued it was necessary to withhold the names of alleged victims until legal action formally started.