Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested on Saturday (July 18, 2026) in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges. They were taken into custody by the US Marshals Service on a sealed warrant, agency spokesperson Brady McCarron told The Associated Press (AP). The arrest of the two brothers has placed the United States at the center of an international legal saga that has stretched from Romania to Britain.What are the charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate?On Saturday, British prosecutors announced that they were seeking Andrew and Tristan Tate’s extradition on charges alleging they raped and trafficked women between 2010 and 2017. The dual US and British citizens moved to Romania in 2016. According to AP, they were arrested there in 2022, accused of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They denied those allegations and the case didn’t go forward because of legal and procedural irregularities.The brothers are expected to appear in Miami’s federal court early next week, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations. The pending charges in the United Kingdom accused the brothers of abusing women in an area north of London, where they grew up. Their lawyers had said they denied the allegations.Tate brothers’ attorney slams new charges Joseph McBride, an attorney representing the Tate brothers, in a phone interview on Saturday evening, told the news agency that he has not been able to speak with his clients but called the new charges out of the U.K. “filth and slander” intended to derail defamation lawsuits filed by the brothers in the U.S. “They’re pulling out all the stops to make sure these guys never get their day in court,” McBride said.“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. America does not do Britain’s political dirty work.”Who is Andrew Tate Andrew Tate, 39, first reached a mainstream audience as a contestant on the U.K. reality television show “Big Brother” in 2016. He was removed from the show when a video surfaced that appeared to show Tate assaulting a woman. He and his brother Tristan Tate, 38, are vocal supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.Andrew has amassed over 10 million followers on X but has been banned from platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram for violating hate speech guidelines. The Tate brothers have consistently denied allegations of abuse and human trafficking, claiming that violent and misogynistic statements have been taken out of context or were intended as jokes.