Andrew and Tristan Tate obtained passports under different names as they sought to hide their identities from authorities — with one passport drawing inspiration from a James Bond villain.
The brothers are set to attend a detention hearing in Miami later this month that will determine whether the brothers stay in prison or will be released while they await their extradition trial. Given the recent revelation that they possess multiple passports under aliases, their lawyer acknowledged that it would be a “tall climb” to persuade the judge to release them.
Tristan, Andrew’s younger brother, had a Mexican passport with his photo that used the name “Vladimir Scorpius,” the name of the main villain in the James Bond “Scorpius” novel, according to court documents, The New York Post reported.
The Tate brothers are facing 59 charges in the United Kingdom, including multiple charges of rape, sex trafficking, and offenses related to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography in the United Kingdom. The brothers have bragged about their “seven passports” and “15 driver’s licenses” in social media posts. New filings from the British Embassy in Washington revealed a slew of passports from the United Kingdom, the United States, Estonia, Nigeria, Poland, and Vanuatu — a small Pacific archipelago.
Andrew said that if he were ever stopped by the police, he would “pull out a license from some random country” in order to keep his identity a secret. He added in multiple posts that he is “above the law.” Prosecutors cited multiple social media posts in which Andrew and Tristan bragged about using multiple aliases to assert that the brothers are flight risks.
“The court need not look much further than the Tates’ own social media posts to understand the great lengths they have gone to avoid detection by government,” prosecutors said.
On Monday, Andrew posted on X from prison that he is living the life that “everyone is waiting to play.”
“Bugattis, money, federal prison, prosecutors after you, street notoriety, professional fights, children with endless women, etc. It’s GTA6. I live what everyone is waiting to play,” he wrote.
The brothers also face charges in Romania that include sex with a minor, trafficking minors, running an organized crime operation, and money laundering.
Joe McBride, the brothers’ attorney, claims Andrew and Tristan have a “target on their back for them to get stabbed, jumped, murdered.” He added, “Every time somebody walks by their cell they get called a word that starts with a ‘P’ that’s more appropriate to [Jeffrey] Epstein and not appropriate to them.”
The brothers’ detention hearing was initially scheduled for Thursday, August 13, but was postponed by U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis to give the brothers’ attorneys more time to respond to the prosecution’s arguments. The detention hearing is now scheduled for August 27.
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