The Tate brothers spent years untouchable — now the manosphere's kings are in a Miami cell
US federal agents have arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami on a UK extradition request, with prosecutors adding rape and child-abuse image charges.
Andrew and Tristan Tate — the influencers who made misogyny a business — are sitting in a Miami cell.
US federal authorities arrested the brothers on Saturday after an extradition request from the United Kingdom, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service confirmed.
And the charge sheet has grown.
"We have decided to prosecute Andrew and Tristan Tate for further offences including rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offences relating to indecent images of a child," said Malcolm McHaffie, head of the CPS's Special Crime Division.
The new file of evidence, from Bedfordshire Police, brings the total number of alleged victims to seven.
The offending is alleged to have taken place between July 2010 and August 2017.
The brothers now await extradition proceedings to the UK, where they already face rape and human trafficking charges relating to alleged abuse of women between 2012 and 2015, north of London, where they grew up.
They deny all of it.
If the names don't land, the reach will.
The former professional kickboxers built an empire on a single product: the fantasy of the alpha male.
Fast cars, private jets, a Bugatti, a garage of supercars they'd photograph and brag about — all wrapped in unapologetic misogyny and sold to millions of young men and boys as a blueprint for success.
Andrew Tate has close to nine million followers on X alone.
Teachers across Britain, Australia and beyond have raised the alarm for years about the way his content radicalises schoolboys, reframing contempt for women as strength.
The dual US-British citizens moved to Romania in 2016 — a relocation Tate himself once suggested was partly about the country's laxer approach to certain charges.
It was there, in December 2022, that the myth collided with reality in the most fitting way imaginable.
Tate had been feuding online with climate activist Greta Thunberg, taunting her with a boast about his fleet of cars and their "enormous emissions".
He filmed a response — Versace robe, cigar — and had pizza brought in, making a point of the branded boxes on the table.
"Make sure that these boxes are not recycled," he quipped.
Hours later, Romanian anti-organised-crime agents raided his Bucharest villa.
A viral theory held that the Jerry's Pizza boxes had confirmed he was in the country and tipped police off.
Romanian authorities later said that wasn't how they found him — but the timing was too good, and #PizzaTate was born.
Thunberg's verdict: "this is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes."
That 2022 case stalled on procedural grounds. The brothers walked, kept posting, kept selling.
This time the request came from Washington's ally in London, and the men who spent years insisting no jurisdiction could touch them are waiting to find out if one finally can.