The Trump administration does not plan to intervene to stop the extradition of controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate to the United Kingdom, despite the brothers&#8217; legal team urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to step in.
A senior administration official told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/trump-rubio-tate-brothers-extradition">Axios</a> on Wednesday that the United States will not block the proceedings as the brothers fight extradition in federal court. &#8220;The U.S. has an extradition treaty with the U.K. and the administration intends to honor it in this case,&#8221; the official said.
The State Department likewise indicated it has no plans to intervene. A senior department official said Rubio has not spoken with the Tate brothers or their attorneys and that the department &#8220;has no plans to act on this matter at this time.&#8221;
Andrew and Tristan Tate were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-and-tristan-tate-arrested-in-florida-on-rape-child-pornography-charges?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+And+Tristan+Tate+Arrested+In+Florida+On+Rape%2C+Child+Pornography+Charges">arrested</a> in Miami on Saturday, following a British extradition request tied to dozens of new criminal charges. The Crown Prosecution Service recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tate-brothers-slapped-with-38-new-charges-in-expanding-sex-trafficking-case?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tate+Brothers+Slapped+With+38+New+Charges+In+Expanding+Sex+Trafficking+Case">announced</a> 38 additional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-graphic-allegations-unsealed-against-the-tate-brothers?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Read+The+Graphic+Allegations+Unsealed+Against+The+Tate+Brothers">charges</a> against the brothers, bringing the total number of charges they face in the United Kingdom to 59. The charges include allegations of rape, sex trafficking, assault, and offenses involving indecent images of children and extreme pornography.
The brothers have thus far denied all wrongdoing, and they appeared Monday before a federal judge in Miami to begin extradition proceedings. Their attorney, Joseph McBride, argued outside the courthouse that the prosecution is politically motivated and has vowed to challenge the request. &#8220;We are of course objecting to extradition because Andrew and Tristan are innocent,&#8221; McBride told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/andrew-tristan-tate-sex-trafficking-rape-uk-miami-3a3748e075f49b00f286a003f5103485">reporters</a>. &#8220;They&#8217;ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn&#8217;t be extradited for crimes they did not commit.&#8221;
McBride has also argued that Rubio has the authority to deny the extradition request if he determines the brothers are being politically persecuted. Court filings acknowledge the secretary retains final authority over extradition decisions after judicial proceedings conclude, but administration officials have indicated there is no appetite to exercise that discretion in this case.
According to Axios, Rubio has privately expressed disdain for the brothers, with one source telling the outlet the secretary views them as &#8220;scum.&#8221; Another source familiar with President Donald Trump&#8217;s thinking said the president likewise wants nothing to do with the influencers despite their repeated public support for him. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-are-andrew-and-tristan-tate-everything-to-know-about-the-controversial-manosphere-brothers?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Who+Are+Andrew+And+Tristan+Tate%3F+Everything+To+Know+About+The+Controversial+%E2%80%98Manosphere%E2%80%99+Brothers.">The Tate brothers</a> have cultivated a massive online following through content promoting wealth, hyper-masculinity, and controversial views on women. They became prominent figures within the so-called &#8220;manosphere&#8221; and have repeatedly portrayed themselves as allies of Trump and the MAGA movement.
The extradition case is only the latest legal challenge facing the brothers. They remain under criminal investigation in Romania on separate human trafficking and rape allegations, which they have also denied.
A federal judge has scheduled the brothers&#8217; next hearing for July 27 as the extradition process continues. If the court determines the treaty requirements are met, the final decision on whether to surrender the brothers to British authorities will rest with Rubio, though administration officials have made clear they currently have no intention of blocking the request.

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The Trump Admin Will Not Intervene On Behalf Of The Tate Brothers

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Marco Rubio

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Hasan Piker put on a Mao jacket. That&#8217;s a costume honoring a man who murdered tens of millions of people.
And then Piker lectured college kids.
A candidate in Colorado for the Democratic Socialists of America named Melat Kiros declared on camera that America will only stop exploiting the world once we “elect enough immigrants from the global South.&#8221;
That is not a policy pitch. That is a plan to replace the country you have with a new one by replacing America&#8217;s founding ideals with foreign ideals.
This has a name: Third-worldism. The whole rotten idea is that Western civilization is the villain, and America can only atone by handing itself over to its supposed victims.
And this is working. It&#8217;s happening at our universities, in the DSA, and on the streets.
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But the answer to the Left going crazy should not be the Right also going crazy.
And yet this week, Andrew Tate, an admitted pimp, an accused rapist and pornographer, got arrested, and a chunk of the Right went conspicuously silent. Some even defended him, which is disgraceful.
You don&#8217;t beat the transgressive Left by becoming a transgressive Right. You beat them by being the adults in the room, by being moral and conservative, and by actually standing for something.
Here is my take. You don&#8217;t owe an apology for Western Civilization. A country that lets itself be conquered is not generous. It&#8217;s just gone.
But here&#8217;s something else: We can lose to those people.
You could look at the crazies on the Left and think, there&#8217;s no way that could happen. But there is a way the Right can seize defeat from the jaws of victory: Keep trafficking in idiotic conspiracies, ally with some of the worst people in the world like Andrew Tate, and discard America&#8217;s ideals on behalf of transgressive, reactionary garbage.
If you are a law-abiding American citizen, you should be happy when alleged and admitted sex traffickers are arrested. And yet I see a certain segment of the population that is deeply unhappy when alleged sex traffickers like Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are arrested.
That’s because there is a part of the reactionary Right that supports the transgressivism of the Tates — that hates the institutions of the West in the same way that the Left hates the institutions. They think those institutions have been thoroughly corrupted and therefore untrustworthy.
Paul Ingrassia, the clown who is the acting general counsel for the General Services Administration, put out a couple of tweets over the weekend. One stated:
<blockquote>In America, the presumption of innocence is inviolable. It is supposed to be a bedrock principle of our legal system. The presumption of innocence demands rigorous legal guardrails, referred to as procedural due process. Those who resent this arrangement should really channel their resentment against the Constitution, the document which safeguards the God-given rights of every citizen and lays out these protections boldly. One remains innocent until a court of competent jurisdiction renders a judgment. This process is what separates America from the world, and is what makes this country exceptional. Let&#8217;s not lose sight of this.</blockquote>
Yes, there is indeed a presumption of innocence with regard to the Tates in a court of law, but if you admit to doing a bunch of stuff and brag about it and openly tout it on tape, I don&#8217;t have to assume you&#8217;re innocent any more than I had to assume that O.J. Simpson was innocent.
Ingrassia then said, “Politically driven prosecutions based on one&#8217;s personal beliefs are completely antithetical to a democratic society.”
I&#8217;m pretty sure that the reason that the Tates are being prosecuted is that they&#8217;ve had — hovering over them for literally a decade — allegations of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.
Ingrassia works for the administration. If Republicans don&#8217;t fight this, if conservatives don&#8217;t fight this brain-worm nonsense, then there is every chance that the DSA ends up in power.
If you brain-worm yourself in the belief that you must ally with the world&#8217;s worst human beings in order to “fight the Left,” if you fall into the black pilling of the Right, in which you must ally with alleged sex traffickers and webcam operators, then you are probably going to lose.

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The Villain Trap That’s Changing America

Ben Shapiro

Hasan Piker

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Woke Right

Newly unsealed federal court documents revealed the laundry list of charges against brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate — a list that includes multiple rape charges, sex trafficking, and possession of child sex abuse material.
The new court documents allege a disturbing pattern of behavior, with British prosecutors accusing both men of repeatedly choking women — in some cases until they lost consciousness — before raping them. The specific allegations detailed in the complaint involve incidents against several women in England dating back more than a decade, including one woman who told investigators she feared for her life during an assault.
Andrew Tate now faces seven counts of rape, three counts of sex trafficking, three assault counts, and 19 additional charges tied to child exploitation material, according to the unsealed complaint. Tristan Tate faces two rape counts, one sexual assault count, and three counts of sex trafficking. Combined, British authorities have now filed 59 charges against the pair — a dramatic escalation from the original 21 counts filed last year.
The Tates will remain in federal custody after appearing before a Miami court on Monday, where their attorneys signaled they intend to fight extradition to the United Kingdom on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-and-tristan-tate-arrested-in-florida-on-rape-child-pornography-charges">sprawling list of charges</a>. The hearing came just two days after U.S. marshals arrested the brothers at a boxing event in downtown Miami on a sealed U.K. warrant.
The brothers&#8217; attorney, Joseph McBride, told reporters outside the courthouse that the case against his clients was politically motivated and dismissed the allegations. The Tates have retained a South Florida defense team to fight extradition, with another court date set for next week to address whether they&#8217;ll remain detained in the meantime.
Monday&#8217;s hearing is the latest chapter in a legal saga that stretches back to 2022, when Romanian authorities first arrested the brothers on human trafficking charges. That case, along with a separate allegation involving a minor, remains unresolved. The Tates spent roughly two years on and off under house arrest in Romania before travel restrictions were lifted, allowing them to relocate back to the United States.
The brothers built their fortune and online following through webcam pornography operations and later Hustler&#8217;s University, a subscription-based self-help program that taught young men to emulate the Tates&#8217; aggressive, wealth-flaunting persona. The brothers made increasingly inflammatory public statements, including antisemitic remarks and a Nazi salute following Hamas&#8217; October 7 attack.
Florida&#8217;s attorney general opened his own investigation into the Tates last year, and federal anti-trafficking investigators have reportedly been examining the brothers as well, though no state or federal charges have yet been filed domestically.

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I&#8217;m going to name a bunch of things that used to get you kicked out of polite society: Being a pornographer; hitting a 15-year-old girl with a belt on camera in essentially a sexual fetish video; bragging about teaching men to “pimp hoes”; suckering women into posing nude on camera for your own financial gain; running a grift business to convince ignorant young men that if there are videos of them shirtless in their Romanian warehouse with fancy cars, smoking cigars with a bunch of clout-chasing women in the background, they will get rich; teaching those same young men that all women are trash and whores.
People who did such things used to be unwelcome. Unwelcome to dinner, unwelcome at church, unwelcome in the halls of power, and unwelcome by important and influential voices shaping our politics and our culture — but no longer.
But here’s the point: Sin has consequences, always and forever.
On Saturday morning, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in Miami for extradition to the U.K. on 38 new criminal charges, bringing the total charges against them to 59.
Those criminal charges included child and extreme pornography, rape, and sexual assault.
I want to talk about why these two obvious scumbags and grifters were welcomed into polite society, championed as heroes and truth tellers, because a society that embraces sin destroys itself.
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Sin has consequences. I know it&#8217;s not cool to point out that sin actually exists, and that it actually has real-world consequences.
I don&#8217;t give a damn about being cool. I mean, look at me; I&#8217;ve never been cool, and I don&#8217;t care. I have never cared. I will never care because the truth is still the truth.
Reality is still reality.
Sin always has and always will have consequences.
Engaging in sin is like jumping off a 100-story building. The first 99 stories, super-fun. And then that last story where your face meets the concrete — not so much.
That’s what happened to pornographer, grifter, alleged rapist and admitted pimp Andrew Tate and his idiot brother Tristan Tate Saturday, when they were arrested in Miami for extradition to the U.K.: Their faces finally hit the concrete.
The Tate brothers are two failed kickboxers whose scam originated as a webcam operation in Romania, where they essentially dragged more than 75 women into webcam pornography, and they made a lot of money from it.
But in 2016, after getting kicked off Big Brother U.K. — a British reality TV show — for hitting a woman with a belt, Andrew Tate formed ties with the likes of Alex Jones and then glommed onto pro-Trump anti-war messaging with a slew of transgressive political talking points.
And this is where his big fame and fortune came in. The next part is important because even if you&#8217;ve never heard of the Tates, your kids definitely have. Since 2016, TikTok has been the primary driver of Andrew Tate&#8217;s reach. Videos tagged with Andrew Tate have amassed over 13 billion views across YouTube and TikTok. Even though the Tates have been officially banned from the platform, clip channels dedicated to reposting the Tates’ content have accumulated some 230 million views on X. Tate&#8217;s account regularly achieved millions of impressions by 2019, and the manosphere became part of our cultural conversation.
The manosphere was a bunch of men explaining that the only way to truly be a man was to treat women like trash, work out a lot, walk around shirtless, and violate all of society&#8217;s taboos.
I have a basic rule. I hate when men rape women. I hate when men engage in pornography. I hate when men run alleged sex trafficking rings or grifts that target vulnerable young men, treat them as morons to be milked for cash, prey on their vulnerability, teach them that the best way to get ahead in the world is to treat women like garbage, and simultaneously spread Andrew Tate clips.
I think all that stuff is bad. I also think that if you are very concerned, as I am, about Muslim men raping white women in Britain, which is a very, very big thing that happened in Rotherham for years, you should probably also be against Muslim men raping white women in Britain, even if their last name is Tate.
So here&#8217;s the big question: Why did they get away with all of this for so long? Why were so many people into the Tates’ stuff?
The answer is really quite obvious, but it&#8217;s something we seem to have forgotten. The Tates are sinful people, and sin can be fun for some people. Sin has always been fun for some people.
This is true in every Biblical text. If it weren&#8217;t fun, people wouldn&#8217;t do it. If it weren&#8217;t transgressive, people would not do it. The sin of eating the fruit in the Garden of Eden was the transgressiveness.
People are drawn to sin. We have to acknowledge the reality of male nature. Andrew Tate is, for an enormous number of men, an embodiment of what the worst part of men wish they could get away with: consequence-free sexual promiscuity, selfish consumerism, abandoning the kids, shacking up with all the clout-chasing models next door, zero job, zero work, zero consequences.
All fun, all the time, all sin.
Everyone knows what the Tates are doing is bad. But for some, the badness is actually the point, because the badness demonstrates that “we are free.”
Being free from the consequences of sin used to be a leftist preference; that was the draw of the Marxists in the 1920s. That was the draw of the Left in the 1960s: free love, copious drugs, and zero consequences. But increasingly, freedom to sin has become a Right-wing action as well.
How did sin become so popular on the Right? We&#8217;re supposed to be the people who have systemic immunity to this. We go to church, demand standards in personal behavior, and want the Ten Commandments up on classroom walls.
I’ve been saying this sort of stuff for my entire career, since I was 17. I have been promoting traditional virtue all along. Very early on in my career, I was mocked incessantly for the fact that I openly said that I was a virgin until marriage, which is a thing that I did and my wife did also. And now we are married for 18 years with five beautiful children, because virtue is good and sin is bad.
But people mock that. They mock it: “You&#8217;re a fuddy-duddy. You&#8217;re a stick in the mud. You&#8217;re uptight. Why can&#8217;t you just be a little cooler?”
I don&#8217;t care about being cool. I care about the truth.
But reactionary politics is sinful because it tends to legitimize sin.
Traditionally, societies construct a series of seawalls against sin. If you have an ocean of sin and it’s threatening a tsunami, you have to have some seawalls.
The first seawall was societal shame. If you were a pornographer, for example, you were not welcome in polite society. You weren&#8217;t welcome at church. You weren&#8217;t welcome at family dinners. Nothing. Get out. We don&#8217;t want you here. You&#8217;re gross. Stay away from me. Stay away from my kids. Stay away from my community.
The social Left decided that all this was far too judgmental. So the Left in the West constructed systems designed to minimize the consequences of sin and to obliterate social standards. We created entire welfare states not just to alleviate poverty, but to sever the consequences of sin. We actually incentivize things like sexual promiscuity and drug use, sometimes by accident, sometimes even on purpose, by treating these not as moral problems, but as “social diseases” that could be alleviated with simple cash outlays.
The idea was that poverty created sin; thus, alleviate poverty, and you alleviate sin, rather than the reality that, very often in a free system, sin creates poverty because there are consequences to making bad decisions.
But we decided that societal consequences were bad, so social consequences were destroyed. For the Left, to alleviate the consequences of sin materially while allowing people to still sit in judgment would be mean and judgmental, and we wouldn&#8217;t want that. We have to be nice.
Conversely, we as a society decided that it was vitally important to stigmatize people with social standards. These people were prudes. They were cruel, and they hated love. They hated joy. They were probably even suppressing their own perversity; if you stood for virtue, the truth was probably you were hiding some shame of your own.
Or you should be made to feel ashamed because you are being the worst thing of all: judgmental.
The Right didn&#8217;t sit still for this, but the blowback when it came didn&#8217;t come in the form of a restoration of standards. Instead, politics became incredibly reactionary.
Politics is basically a pendulum that swings from side to side. The Right reacted by embracing anybody who would tear down the Left — no matter what it took. The reactionary Right decided that it actually needed transgressive figures, people who were sinful, who wouldn&#8217;t play by the old rules.
The sin was now the point. After all, you could only defeat the shame-using Left not by course-correcting and saying, “No, no. Here&#8217;s what virtue looks like,” but rather by being totally shameless, totally transgressive.
And guess what? That was fun for them. Because sin is fun. Because being transgressive of values is fun. And it&#8217;s particularly fun when you can justify it to yourself.
No one wants to respond to transgressive evil by standing with good. Good is boring. Good is demanding. Good is dutiful.
Some people want to engage in evil because evil is fun and addictive. And once they have the excuse, it&#8217;s much more fun to go all the way.

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Andrew Tate’s Reckoning Is Here

Andrew and Tristan Tate — the controversial brothers and &#8220;manosphere&#8221; influencers — were arrested in Miami on Saturday on a warrant in the United Kingdom.
The Tates are charged with a slew of crimes ranging from sexual assault and rape to human trafficking and possession of child pornography. The Tates were first arrested on similar charges in Romania in 2022, the beginning of an ongoing criminal saga for the pair, who rose to prominence with their flashy lifestyles and videos encouraging young men to be &#8220;alpha males.&#8221;
But who are Andrew and Tristan, exactly? How did they rise to prominence? And when did things start to go south?
Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about the Tate brothers.
<h3>A transatlantic beginning.</h3>
Andrew, 39, and Tristan, 38, were born to a British mother, Eileen, and an American Air Force sergeant and chess master, Emory Tate. They lived in the United States until their parents divorced, whereupon they returned to the United Kingdom with their mother. The pair also have a younger sister, Janine, about whom little is publicly available. Both Tate brothers hold dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Andrew Tate began kickboxing around 2005 and went on to win four world championships. Tristan also enjoyed mild success in kickboxing, but the pair soon moved on to more nefarious pursuits.
<h3>Big Brother is watching.</h3>
According to Andrew Tate, in 2014 he began <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse">brainstorming</a> ways to make money, which was not coming in from kickboxing. Realizing that he &#8220;had about five girlfriends,&#8221; he decided to begin a webcam pornography business, beginning with just his &#8220;girlfriends&#8221; and eventually recruiting other women to &#8220;perform.&#8221; Tate claims that the business netted $100,000 in its first month. The brothers moved their webcam empire to Romania sometime between 2015 and 2017, where it took on a massive scale.
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In that window, Andrew Tate rose to fame as a contestant on the British version of the popular reality TV show, Big Brother. Tate was booted from the show after just six days, with producers citing Tate&#8217;s <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-36524693">&#8220;outside activities&#8221;</a> as grounds for removal.
Those &#8220;outside activities&#8221; include some of the earliest allegations against the Tate brothers. Several women have <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyje823er4o">accused</a> the brothers of luring them to Romania on the promise of a romantic relationship, only to coerce them into performing for their webcam streams. At least two women have accused the Tate brothers of raping and physically assaulting them during this period, when Andrew Tate claims to have made more than half a million dollars a month and had 75 women working for him.
But by 2020, the webcam ring was shuttered. The Tates had a new venture, and it would be their biggest yet.
<h3>Into the Manosphere.</h3>
Around 2017, the Tates began pitching themselves as lifestyle gurus, teaching young men <a href="https://www.the-independent.com/tech/twitter-andrew-tate-raped-verify-kickboxer-b1996239.html">how to succeed in business</a> and romance. By 2020, that business had grown into Hustler&#8217;s University, an online community where, for $50 a month, men could learn from the Tate brothers. Or, for <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/article/andrew-tate-five-things-know">$8,000 a year</a>, members could join the &#8220;War Room&#8221; for even more elite lessons.
Fueled by their social media posts depicting flashy cars, women, and all-around lavish living, the Tates developed a massive following, primarily among young men. The men who flocked to Tate&#8217;s courses learned that the way to make money and impress women was to behave like the Tates — that is, arrogant, flashy, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-tates-filthy-grift?author=Ben+Shapiro&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Tate%E2%80%99s+Filthy+Grift">rude to the women</a> they wanted to attract.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-real-reason-young-men-are-flocking-to-the-manosphere?author=Jonathan+Alpert&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Real+Reason+Young+Men+Are+Flocking+To+The+Manosphere">UPSTREAM: The Real Reason Young Men Are Flocking To The Manosphere</a></h4>
During this time, Tate became a player in the culture wars thanks to his controversial statements about women, minorities, and especially Jews. Following Hamas&#8217;s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Tate began to express support for Palestinian terrorists, denied the Holocaust, and performed a Nazi salute, among other <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/article/andrew-tate-five-things-know">antisemitic acts.</a>
Tate claimed that at its peak, Hustler&#8217;s University had 80,000 members, though that number has not been independently verified. In 2022, Tate closed Hustler&#8217;s University amid allegations that the program was really a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/20/andrew-tate-money-making-scheme-for-fans-of-extreme-misogynist-closes">pyramid scheme.</a> It was the beginning of an avalanche of legal troubles that continue to this day.
<h3>On the run.</h3>
In 2022, Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Romania and charged with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-detained-romania-brothers-crime/">human trafficking.</a> They were placed under house arrest in early 2023 and remained under house arrest on and off until February 2025, when Romanian authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/controversial-social-media-influencer-andrew-tate-returning-to-united-states?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Controversial+Social+Media+Influencer+Andrew+Tate+Returning+To+United+States">lifted travel restrictions</a> on the brothers.
But the Tate brothers still faced charges in Romania, as well as in the United Kingdom, which charged the brothers with similar crimes last May. Last year, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened an investigation into the brothers, who frequently spend time in Miami.
Despite outstanding warrants or investigations in the three countries they called home, the Tates seemed to enjoy freedom of movement until Saturday, when federal authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-and-tristan-tate-arrested-in-florida-on-rape-child-pornography-charges?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+And+Tristan+Tate+Arrested+In+Florida+On+Rape%2C+Child+Pornography+Charges">arrested them at a Miami airport</a> on a warrant issued by the Crown Prosecution Service of the United Kingdom.
<h3>What are the Tates charged with?</h3>
British prosecutors issued 38 new criminal charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate following their arrest. The pair now face <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tate-brothers-slapped-with-38-new-charges-in-expanding-sex-trafficking-case?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Tate+Brothers+Slapped+With+38+New+Charges+In+Expanding+Sex+Trafficking+Case">a total of 59 charges</a>, according to Hertfordshire Police, a total that could lead to their extradition to the United Kingdom.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tate-brothers-slapped-with-38-new-charges-in-expanding-sex-trafficking-case?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Tate+Brothers+Slapped+With+38+New+Charges+In+Expanding+Sex+Trafficking+Case">READ MORE: Tate Brothers Slapped With 38 New Charges In Expanding Sex Trafficking Case</a></h4>
Andrew Tate is charged with rape and human trafficking related to three women, while Tristan is charged with 11 counts of similar crimes tied to one woman. The Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s new charges include 19 counts of crimes related to illegal child images and pornography for Andrew Tate.
The Tate brothers have denied all charges against them.

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British prosecutors have issued 38 new criminal charges against Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after the pair were arrested in Miami on Saturday by federal officials on rape charges and an outstanding warrant in the United Kingdom.
The additional charges pave the way for possible extradition proceedings across the pond as the pair now face a total of 59 charges, <a href="https://www.herts.police.uk/news/hertfordshire/news/2026/july-2026/andrew-and-tristan-tate-arrested-in-connection-with-uk-police-investigation/">according</a> to Hertfordshire Police.
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Following the arrest of Andrew and Tristan Tate overnight in the US, our Assistant Chief Constable Karena Thomas has issued a statement.
The brothers were arrested as part of an ongoing investigation by our major crime unit into a number of sexual offences. <a href="https://t.co/wwsaXO3Muz">pic.twitter.com/wwsaXO3Muz</a>
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The Crown Prosecution Service last year charged Andrew Tate with 10 counts of crimes, including rape and human trafficking related to three women, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-and-tristan-tate-arrested-in-florida-on-rape-child-pornography-charges">reported</a>. His younger brother, Tristan, was charged with 11 counts of similar crimes tied to one woman. On Saturday, the Crown Prosecution Service announced additional counts for each brother, including 19 charges related to illegal child images and pornography for Andrew Tate.
“We can confirm the arrest of the Tate brothers today in Miami,” the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement. “The warrant was sealed so we are unable to confirm the charges.” The office of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier — who last year opened an investigation into the Tate brothers — confirmed to The Daily Wire that the pair were taken into custody on an arrest warrant from the United Kingdom.
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Florida AG’s office tells <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> the Tate brothers were taken into custody on a UK arrest warrant. <a href="https://t.co/6wDfk5xadK">https://t.co/6wDfk5xadK</a>
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://x.com/BrentScher/status/2078633480489935109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The Tate brothers continue to deny all wrongdoing and accuse British authorities of unfairly targeting them. Joseph McBride, a lawyer for the pair, said in a statement that &#8220;the world knows Andrew and Tristan are innocent&#8221; and described the additional charges as a &#8220;political hit,&#8221; per the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwymly9yd33o">BBC</a>. &#8220;Their enemies know it best of all. That is exactly why they have been attacked,&#8221; McBride said.
The pair have remained under criminal investigation in Romania for human trafficking since 2022, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/romanian-prosecutors-add-hate-speech-against-women-andrew-tate-investigation-2026-05-28/">according</a> to Reuters.

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Controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate on Saturday were arrested by federal officials in Miami pursuant to rape charges and an outstanding arrest warrant in the United Kingdom.
The Crown Prosecution Service last year charged Andrew Tate with 10 counts of crimes, including rape and human trafficking related to three women. His younger brother, Tristan, was charged with 11 counts of similar crimes tied to one woman. On Saturday, the Crown Prosecution Service announced additional counts for each brother, including 19 charges related to illegal child images and pornography for Andrew Tate.
“We can confirm the arrest of the Tate brothers today in Miami,” the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement. “The warrant was sealed so we are unable to confirm the charges.” The office of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier — who last year opened an investigation into the Tate brothers — confirmed to The Daily Wire that the pair were taken into custody on an arrest warrant from the United Kingdom.
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Florida AG’s office tells <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> the Tate brothers were taken into custody on a UK arrest warrant. <a href="https://t.co/6wDfk5xadK">https://t.co/6wDfk5xadK</a>
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://x.com/BrentScher/status/2078633480489935109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“To me, when they’re making statements that sound an awful lot like criminal activity, I think as attorney general, I’ve got a duty to investigate and make sure that we’re not subjecting, you know, women in our state to dangers,” Uthmeier <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tate-brothers-face-rape-and-human-trafficking-charges-in-united-kingdom?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tate+Brothers+Face+Rape+And+Human+Trafficking+Charges+In+United+Kingdom">said</a> last year. “If there’s a crime that occurred here in our jurisdiction, we’ve got a prerogative to prosecute it, and we will do so.”
This is the latest bout of legal trouble for the Tates, who were first arrested in Romania in 2022 on charges of rape, human trafficking, sex with a minor, and trafficking minors. British prosecutors charged the brothers with those crimes last May.
The Tates rose to prominence as central figures of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-real-reason-young-men-are-flocking-to-the-manosphere?author=Jonathan+Alpert&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Real+Reason+Young+Men+Are+Flocking+To+The+Manosphere">&#8220;manosphere,&#8221;</a> a controversial internet community popular among disaffected young men. Figures like the Tates flaunt their lavish lifestyles and tell listeners that they too can achieve success and impress women by acting like &#8220;alpha males.&#8221;
But behind the public bravado lurks a much darker reality.
Last year, Andrew Tate&#8217;s ex-girlfriend, Brianna Stern, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-girlfriend-accuses-andrew-tate-of-abuse-violence-in-lawsuit-if-you-ever-betray-me?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ex-Girlfriend+Accuses+Andrew+Tate+Of+Abuse%2C+Violence+In+Lawsuit%3A+%E2%80%98If+You+Ever+Betray+Me%E2%80%99">accused</a> the former kickboxer of physical abuse.
“The last time I saw Andrew was on March 11, 2025 at the Beverly Hill’s Hotel,&#8221; Stern wrote on social media. &#8220;The last words he said to me before I left the hotel were: ‘Shut the f*** up, b****. You will never backtalk me. You are my property.'&#8221;
Months after Stern came forward with her allegations, Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtuber-lauren-southern-accuses-andrew-tate-of-sexual-assault?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=YouTuber+Lauren+Southern+Accuses+Andrew+Tate+Of+Sexual+Assault">accused</a> Andrew Tate of sexual assault in a self-published memoir.
&#8220;I said no, very clearly, multiple times, and tried to pull his hands off me,&#8221; Southern wrote of their encounter. &#8220;He put his arm around my neck and began strangling me unconscious. I tried to fight back. He repeatedly strangled me every time I regained enough consciousness to pull at his arms. I’d prefer not to share the rest. It’s pretty obvious.&#8221;
Andrew and Tristan Tate have repeatedly denied all the allegations made against them.
The brothers, who hold dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom, moved to Romania in 2016 but returned to the United States last year as Romanian authorities investigated their activity. The United Kingdom is reportedly seeking to extradite the brothers.

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Historically, Russia was very, very good at what we call psyops, psychological operations designed to undermine the United States.
They are still good at it. The Op is happening. It&#8217;s live, right in front of us. Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, and other Woke Right influencers have now landed in Moscow, and they&#8217;re basically Jane Fonda on the Vietcong anti-aircraft guns during the Vietnam War.
They propagandize for our enemies.
If you somehow believe that these people are just good-hearted folks who are invested in Christianity and the West and traditional conservative values, I hate to break it to you, but you are the sucker. If your head is attached to your shoulders, the Op has never been more obvious.
The dictator who currently runs Russia is Vladimir Putin. He was a member of the KGB. His task: Intelligence and counter-intelligence. He worked under a man named Yuri Andropov, who was then leading the KGB. Later, Andropov became the Premier of the Soviet Union, the dictator of the Soviet Union.
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And here&#8217;s what Andropov said about psyops directed at Soviet enemies: “Disinformation is like cocaine. Sniff once or twice. It may not change your life if you use it every day, though it will make you an addict, a different man.”
It seems like a lot of people in the West are now all coked up.
Candace Owens is in Russia sitting on Russian propaganda panels. She&#8217;s praising what she describes as Russia&#8217;s approach to families.
Spoiler alert: Russia&#8217;s idea of family values is encouraging couples to have kids so there is an ample supply of soldiers to fight in the Ukraine war.
Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing the same sort of stuff, signaling her support for Candace&#8217;s big Russian adventure. And Buckley Carlson (a.k.a. Tucker Carlson, minus the skincare regimen) is openly saying that Russia&#8217;s leader looks out for his people&#8217;s interests, and he wishes we had that here. Tucker, of course, says exactly the same thing.
None of them are simply making critiques of America. They&#8217;re all saying that Russia is somehow better, that Russia&#8217;s leadership is somehow better.
And that&#8217;s the tell: There&#8217;s a big difference between saying “countries act in their own national interest” or “America has problems,” and “I wish our country were run more like Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia.” Those are not the same arguments.
One of those is rooted in realism. The other is just crazed fan-fiction conspiracy nonsense.
That is what this has become: Geopolitical fan fiction for people who think America sucks so much that countries like Russia not only ought to be a model for us, but ought to have more global power.
This is all part of what I have called a demoralization op.
Demoralization is the effort to destroy basic moral principles and dogmas and replace them with divisive fringe ideologies. It is step one in collapsing your enemies.
That is what is happening here. Enemies of America are using every resource at their disposal to do it — and there is good news for them: There’s an entire online repository of complete dunderheaded morons and conspiratorial America haters to do their dirty work for them, and lots of people online to click into the echo chamber.
The exact same people who built their brands around “Don&#8217;t trust the regime” and “Don&#8217;t trust the media” and “Don&#8217;t trust the propaganda” are suddenly very much in favor of trusting a regime, (when it&#8217;s Russia), the media, (when it&#8217;s Russia Today) and the propaganda, (when they are controlled by the Russian government and tell them America is decadent and the West is collapsing and Putin is strong and Russia protects tradition).
Suddenly, these people are on board all the way. They&#8217;re not investigating or questioning.
This is not skepticism. This is credulity. This is absolute, credulous stupidity. And they are nodding along either because they are bought and paid for, or because the message actually flatters their priors, and their priors are obvious: America sucks. America is in decline. America, in fact, is evil.
These are the ideas they parrot: We took the wrong side during World War II. We were vicious during the Cold War. We were the bad guys in the modern era. We were the great despoilers of innocent Muslims in the Middle East.
In the end, the result is all the same. The only way to fix all of this is to unburden the brutalized, demonized American soul, and give more power to America&#8217;s enemies.
We need — wait for it — multi-polarity. That&#8217;s how the Op works. The goal is to convince you that America is irredeemably crappy morally, and that the people we&#8217;ve always seen as our geopolitical opponents are actually not that bad. Russia is not that bad. In many ways they&#8217;re better than we are. Iran is not that bad. They don&#8217;t bother us. Maybe they could be our friend. China is not that bad.
That&#8217;s the Op, and it&#8217;s working on a large number of people who spend too much time online watching Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens or Sean Ryan or Andrew Tate or Megyn Kelly or any of the increasingly anti-American grifters and clickwhores willing to crap on America, either because they believe it, or for fame and money.

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Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere&#8221; wants viewers to fear the men it puts on screen. What it never seriously asks is why millions of young men are looking there for guidance in the first place.
The easiest thing about the documentary is to focus on the symptoms: hyper-masculine influencers, status obsession, aggression, and young men chasing money, control, and dominance. Some of it is ugly, and some of it should alarm us. But the documentary mistakes the supply for the demand. This culture did not emerge out of nowhere. It filled a vacuum that mainstream institutions still refuse to name.
Spend five minutes online, and the shift is obvious. Podcasts about discipline and self-mastery command enormous audiences, and gym routines now double as moral philosophy. Young men trade advice on confidence, money, dating, ambition, and purpose with an urgency that feels almost existential. Much of it is crude. Some of it is wrong and openly corrosive. Yet millions keep watching for a reason elite culture still resists admitting: For years, young men have been told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-tried-to-fix-men-for-two-decades-heres-what-it-got-instead">what not to be</a>, while almost no one has been willing to say what they should become. That vacuum became a market.
We have taught an entire generation of young men how to analyze their emotions, but not what to do with their lives. As a psychotherapist, I see a version of this often. A young man recently spent nearly an entire session describing, with impressive self-awareness, why he felt stuck: fear of failure, fear of judgment, and fear of choosing the wrong path. He could name every feeling in detail. What he couldn&#8217;t name was what he actually wanted. The problem was not a lack of insight. It was the absence of aim.
In my forthcoming book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Nation-America-Anxious-Divided/dp/1335000658">Therapy Nation</a>,&#8221; I argue that our culture has become increasingly fluent in the language of validation and self-analysis while growing less comfortable with challenge, standards, and the harder work of building resilience. Nowhere is that imbalance more visible than in the lives of young men who have been encouraged to interpret themselves endlessly but rarely challenged to build a life.
Andrew Tate and an entire ecosystem of male self-mastery influencers thrive because they offer what mainstream culture increasingly withholds: direction, standards, and permission to pursue ambition without apology. None of this excuses the ugliness of what many of these figures sell. It simply explains why the market for it became so large. The mainstream response has been to condemn the message while refusing to confront the conditions that made it so attractive.
Young men today are caught in a double bind. Show ambition and risk being labeled toxic. Hold back and risk becoming invisible. Assertiveness is suspect, but passivity is miserable. The result is paralysis followed by backlash. What is often dismissed as &#8220;bro culture&#8221; did not create this confusion. It recognized it early and built an industry around it.
What makes this moment more dangerous is the collapse of credible alternatives. Institutions that once offered direction, from schools to workplaces to families, now speak in softer, more hesitant language. Expectations are blurred, standards are hedged, and authority is treated as something to apologize for rather than exercise.
In that environment, many young men are left with a surprisingly vague idea of adulthood. They are taught to be emotionally aware and careful with language, which matters. What they are less often given is a clear sense of what adulthood actually asks of them: responsibility, competence, discipline, and something worth aiming at. The result is a generation that often knows how to monitor itself better than how to direct itself. Self-awareness becomes an end in itself rather than a tool in service of ambition and growth.
That leaves a dangerous opening for anyone willing to offer a more forceful script. Even a flawed script can feel liberating when it is one of the only things still speaking in the language of standards, goals, earned competence, and direction. When institutions stop offering a believable model of mature masculinity, the loudest online figures step in and supply one.
A second cultural shift has made the problem worse. The language of therapy has escaped the consulting room and seeped into schools, workplaces, and culture itself. Ordinary struggle is now recast as harm, discomfort as danger, and stress as injury. The result is a generation less practiced at enduring difficulty and more dependent on emotional permission before action.
We have become fluent in emotional vocabulary while growing less comfortable with standards, authority, and the basic truth that difficulty is often the price of growth.
That gap is where the manosphere thrives. It offers something closer to permission: the freedom to pursue goals without endless self-qualification, to value discipline without shame, and to move forward without first turning every impulse into a diagnosis.
Young men are asking a basic question: What should I aim for? If mainstream culture refuses to answer it, the loudest and most extreme voices online will.
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Jonathan Alpert is a psychotherapist in New York City and Washington, D.C., and author of the forthcoming book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Nation-America-Anxious-Divided/dp/1335000658">Therapy Nation</a>.&#8221; Find him on X <a href="https://x.com/JonathanAlpert">@JonathanAlpert</a>.

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Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern has accused influencer Andrew Tate of sexual assault in her new self-published memoir.
In her upcoming book, “This Is Not Real Life,” Southern claims she met Tate in 2018 at the age of 22, according to excerpts she posted on her <a href="https://laurensouthern.substack.com/p/long-overdue">Substack page</a> on Tuesday. She states that she was not putting the excerpts behind a paywall because “they weren’t written with the intention of profiting off this incident.”
Southern wrote about a 2018 trip to Romania with British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson, whom Southern said told her that wealthy crypto investors in Eastern Europe might be interested in sponsoring a media project.
She alleges that she met Tate and his brother, Tristan, and they all went to dinner. Afterward, the Tates drove them to what looked like a “generic industrial warehouse.”
“But when the giant black gate rolled open, it revealed a scene that would’ve been obvious to me as a criminal operation if I had any clue how the world worked. We were greeted by a glowing blue pool surrounded by luxury cars as we stepped onto the tiled entrance,” Southern said.
Southern assumed “the whole thing was a bust” after the group&#8217;s presentation flopped, writing, “We returned to our hotel in Bucharest feeling dejected, embarrassed, and unsure of where to go from here.”
However, Southern wrote she was told that she had impressed others at the meeting, “and the deal is still on if you’re willing to meet with them before you leave tomorrow and sort out the details.”
“They sent a car for me, and we headed back to the compound where the same group of men were waiting,” she wrote, as she began detailing the allegations:
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&#8220;This is boring. Let’s go somewhere more exciting,” Andrew snapped while pacing. Tristan and the others agreed. Now, I was naive, but I wasn’t that much of an idiot. I asked again when we’d discuss business and where exactly they wanted to go. “To the club. It’s just around the block; we can take the cars. It’ll be fun. We’ll discuss business there.” &#8230;
“Hey, I’d rather not go out unless Tommy and the boys are coming too,” I said, trying to keep it light. “I’ve already texted them. We’re sending a car now,” Andrew replied assuredly, with a twinkle in his eye. Well, my excuse was gone.
&#8230; I wasn’t thinking clearly. I was still on autopilot, lacking a strong sense of self, easily swayed by the smallest bit of pressure. The most dangerous thing a young woman can be is a pushover. &#8230;
We hadn’t even there [at the club] that long, and I hadn’t drunk much, but something was wrong. My body wasn’t listening to me. The world was dimming, and I couldn’t stop it. &#8230; Eventually, I found myself crawling onto a couch at the back of the club, my eyelids fluttering closed.
&#8230; Then Andrew was there again, lifting me up and carrying me through the dim hallway, my feet barely touching the ground, the bass of the music still shaking my body. &#8230;
I’d rather not give a detailed account, so I’ll keep it simple. He carried me back to the hotel room and asked me to sleep beside him. I said yes. I was incredibly intoxicated, and some part of me convinced myself that because he was Tommy’s friend he wasn’t particularly dangerous. It was a poor decision, but it happened. He kissed me. I wasn’t expecting it, and I wasn’t looking for it, but I kissed him back briefly and then told him I wanted to sleep. I was extraordinarily tired. He wanted to go further. I said no, very clearly, multiple times, and tried to pull his hands off me. He put his arm around my neck and began strangling me unconscious. I tried to fight back. He repeatedly strangled me every time I regained enough consciousness to pull at his arms. I’d prefer not to share the rest. It’s pretty obvious.
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“I went to a women’s hospital and had a report made around a week after the event,” Southern alleges. “The report documented my account of asphyxiation, five years before Vice News would report in 2023 that Tate used the same method on other victims in the UK in 2015.”
Tate, through an attorney, <a href="https://x.com/McBrideLawNYC/status/1945352648384733228">said</a> he “unequivocally repudiates the pathetic filth peddled” by his latest accuser. The masculinity influencer has similarly denied other accusations against him.
“No evidence supports her claims,” Tate’s lawyer continues. “The so-called ‘free’ chapter release is nothing but an evil marketing ploy: a sensational teaser engineered to propel sales of her book by parasitizing Andrew’s fame.”
Southern said telling the story is not an attempt to market her book.
“They were written because they’re part of my story, and they’re true,” Southern writes. “If you’re here just to read about Tate or think this is some kind of selling point, please don’t buy the book. You won’t find anything more significant about him in its pages beyond what’s already here for free.”
Noting that others had spoken about the incident already, she said that many intended to “purvey a distorted version of these events, not just to get ahead of the narrative, but to undermine other witnesses and other legitimate cases of assault and trafficking.”
“I cannot remain silent when my story is being twisted and used as a tool to discredit others. It would be unjust not to set the record straight,” she wrote.
“Years later, she would read a Vice News <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/andrew-tate-arrest/">report</a> about how Tate had been arrested on suspicion of rape in the U.K. in 2015, with one alleged victim telling the outlet that Tate had strangled her on multiple occasions, and that she’d seen him choke other women some 10 times,” Rolling Stone <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lauren-southern-memoir-andrew-tate-sexual-assault-claim-1235386389/">reported</a>. “Southern found this claim of repeated asphyxiations consistent with her own story.”

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British prosecutors on Wednesday announced they will charge Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate for rape, human trafficking, and other crimes.
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed ten charges against Andrew Tate, 38, related to three women. His younger brother, 36-year-old Tristan, faces eleven charges related to one woman, according to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/andrew-tate-tristan-tate-uk-rape-human-trafficking-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico Europe</a>.
The charges were approved last year after evidence was obtained from the Bedfordshire Police.
“We can confirm that we have authorised charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate for offences including rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm against three women,” the service said in a statement.
“These charging decisions followed receipt of a file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police. A European Arrest Warrant was issued in England in 2024, and as a result the Romanian courts ordered the extradition to the UK of Andrew and Tristan Tate,” it continued. “However, the domestic criminal matters in Romania must be settled first.”
“The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal proceedings are active, and the defendants have the right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings,” the statement concludes.
Wednesday’s announcement is the latest in a series of accusations against the Tates from the sordid to the criminal. The two brothers were first arrested in December 2022 by Romanian authorities. Initial charges in Romania were of rape and human trafficking, but they have since been expanded to include sex with a minor and trafficking underage persons.
The Tates have said they are innocent of all charges and portrayed themselves as the targets of a high-powered conspiracy meant to silence them.
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The Tates are also under investigation in Florida. Attorney General James Uthmeier <a href="https://x.com/GabeGroisman/status/1927794394557555065" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on a recent episode of the podcast “Standpoint with Gabe Groisman” that he is probing potential criminal activity by the Tates that may have taken place within his jurisdiction.
“To me, when they&#8217;re making statements that sound an awful lot like criminal activity, I think as attorney general, I&#8217;ve got a duty to investigate and make sure that we&#8217;re not subjecting, you know, women in our state to dangers,” said Uthmeier. “If there’s a crime that occurred here in our jurisdiction, we&#8217;ve got a prerogative to prosecute it, and we will do so.”
In March, Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend, Brianna Stern, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-girlfriend-accuses-andrew-tate-of-abuse-violence-in-lawsuit-if-you-ever-betray-me?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ex-Girlfriend+Accuses+Andrew+Tate+Of+Abuse%2C+Violence+In+Lawsuit%3A+%E2%80%98If+You+Ever+Betray+Me%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a lawsuit in California alleging that the elder Tate beat and abused her during their relationship. She also provided text messages that suggest Tate warned Stern against speaking out against him.
“The last time I saw Andrew was on March 11, 2025 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The last words he said to me before I left the hotel were: ‘Shut the f*** up, b****. You will never backtalk me. You are my property,’” Stern wrote in a statement.
Tate’s attorney dismissed the lawsuit: “This is a blatant cash grab — a desperate attempt by a sad individual to exploit Andrew’s success and reputation for personal gain.”

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