Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by federal officers in Miami on Saturday afternoon after British prosecutors laid additional criminal charges against the brothers and requested their extradition from the United States.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Andrew Tate, 39, was charged with seven further counts of rape, along with charges relating to alleged crimes including sex trafficking and child pornography. Tristan Tate, 37, faces one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape, and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation. The alleged offending is said to have taken place between July 2010 and August 2017. The CPS disclosed the new charges in a statement issued on the same day as the arrests.
Malcolm McHaffie, head of the Special Crime Division at the CPS, said the charging decisions followed receipt of a further file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police and brought the total number of alleged victims in the case to seven. The Tates have previously denied any wrongdoing.
US Marshals confirmed to the BBC that the brothers had been taken into custody, according to AP. The specific US charges connected to the Miami arrest were not immediately made public, though the UK charges from the CPS had already been disclosed. A Justice Department spokesperson said the arrests were made “pursuant to extradition proceedings.” The CPS said it has requested the extradition of the brothers, who are dual British-US citizens, from the US.
Joseph McBride, a lawyer representing the Tates, said “the world knows Andrew and Tristan are innocent” in a statement released after their arrest on Saturday evening. He described the new UK charges as a “political hit” and said they were designed to counter a defamation action filed by the brothers in the US. “Their enemies know it best of all,” McBride continued. “That is exactly why they have been attacked.” “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,” he said. “America does not do Britain’s political dirty work,” he continued.
Prior charges and Romanian proceedings
This is not the first time the Tate brothers have faced criminal proceedings. They were arrested in Romania in 2022 by anti-terrorism authorities on human trafficking and rape charges, and were formally charged with those offenses by the Romanian government in 2023. “We’ve been completely innocent since the beginning of this,” Andrew Tate told the media in 2023 after his release from house arrest. He said he had “absolute faith” in the Romanian judicial system for “finally making the right decision and letting us free.”
A Romanian court recently lifted all preventative judicial control measures against the Tates while authorities conduct further investigations into their charges, according to Reuters. The brothers are based in Romania. They remain under criminal investigation there. In 2024, Bedfordshire Police secured European arrest warrants for the pair to have them returned from Romania to face UK charges.
UK charges mount
In May 2025, prosecutors confirmed a list of 21 charges the brothers will eventually face in the UK, covering alleged offences between 2012 and 2016. Andrew Tate faces 10 charges connected to three alleged victims, while Tristan Tate faces 11 charges tied to one alleged victim, according to the BBC. The charges include rape, actual bodily harm, and human trafficking. The 21 charges confirmed in May 2025 are separate from the further charges announced on Saturday.
In June, the brothers lost a legal bid to be told the names of their UK accusers after the CPS decided it was necessary to withhold the names of alleged victims until legal action formally started. Andrew Tate first came into the public eye as a guest on the UK’s “Big Brother” in 2016. He was removed from the show. A video had surfaced in which he appeared to be hitting a woman with a belt. Tate and the woman later claimed the actions were consensual. Since then, he has risen to internet stardom as a controversial, hyper-masculine influencer, with Variety describing the brothers as manosphere influencers.