Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, the controversial social media influencers, have been arrested Saturday night in Miami, after British prosecutors introduced new costs of rape and intercourse trafficking in opposition to them, in keeping with U.S. and U.Okay. authorities.
The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to ABC Information the brothers have been taken into custody into Miami.
Andrew Tate, proper, and his brother Tristan arrive an occasion, April 11, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photograph/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool, File)
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The Crown Prosecution Service stated in a news release that the brothers have been charged in reference to sexual offenses involving 4 ladies that allegedly happened between July 2010 and August 2017.
Andrew Tate, 39, was hit with “seven additional counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning precise bodily hurt and 19 further costs for offences regarding indecent pictures of a kid and excessive pornography,” prosecutors stated.
Tristan Tate, 38, was charged with “with one depend of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation,” in keeping with the CPS.
They’re each awaiting extradition, in keeping with prosecutors.
“These arrests have been made in accordance with the treaties and regulation enforcement agreements governing Justice Division extraditions,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Division of Justice stated in an announcement Saturday.
Legal professional data for the brothers was not instantly accessible.
The brothers are slated to make a court docket look in Florida subsequent week, in keeping with a regulation enforcement supply.
The arrests mark the most recent growth in a sequence of court docket circumstances spanning a number of nations.
Andrew Tate (L) and his brother Tristan Tate are pictured inside The Courtroom of Attraction in Bucharest, Romania, on December 10, 2024.
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The brothers have been beforehand charged within the U.Okay. in Might 2025 with a complete of 21 counts — together with a number of counts of rape, bodily hurt and human trafficking. That case concerned three ladies, British prosecutors stated.
The brothers denied all costs in that case.
When the fees have been approved final 12 months, legal professionals for the Tate brothers accused U.Okay. prosecutors and police of refusing to provide “even probably the most fundamental data” in regards to the costs, together with who the alleged victims have been. Additionally they accused the media of a “vendetta” and broadcasting a “huge quantity of misinformation,” suggesting it might have an effect on the Tate’s proper to a good trial.
In Romania, the place Andrew and Tristan Tate made their dwelling for a number of years, they have been charged in each 2023 and 2024 with human trafficking, sexual abuse, cash laundering and forming an organized legal group.
In December 2024, a Bucharest court docket dominated that the primary case in opposition to the Tates and their two feminine associates could not proceed to trial due to a number of authorized and procedural irregularities and despatched it again to prosecutors. The fees weren’t dropped. The second human trafficking case in opposition to the brothers in Romania was additionally nonetheless ongoing as of February 2025.
The Tate brothers have additionally denied the fees within the circumstances in Romania.
Chatting with reporters upon arriving in Florida in February 2025 Andrew Tate stated he believed he and his brother have been “largely misunderstood.”
“We have but to be convicted of any crime in our lives ever. We now have no legal report wherever on the planet, ever,” Andrew Tate stated.
