Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarising internet personalities, were arrested in Miami on Saturday as British authorities sought their extradition on charges of rape and sex trafficking.
The brothers were taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service under a sealed arrest warrant, agency spokesperson Brady McCarron told the Associated Press, putting the United States at the heart of an international legal saga stretching from Romania to the United Kingdom.
British prosecutors announced on Saturday that they were seeking the brothers' extradition over allegations that they raped and trafficked women between 2010 and 2017.
2022 arrest of Tate brothers in Romania
The brothers, who hold dual U.S. and British citizenship, moved to Romania in 2016. They were arrested there in 2022, accused of involvement in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They rejected those allegations and the Romanian case stalled because of legal and procedural issues.
