Lawyers for social media personalities Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate asked a federal judge Friday to release the brothers from a Miami jail while they fight extradition to Britain on charges of rape, assault and facilitating sex trafficking.
In a filing in Miami federal court, the brothers’ attorneys argued their “extraordinary public visibility” would make it nearly impossible for them to disappear, so there is no need to keep them detained while the extradition case plays out. “It would be extraordinarily difficult for Andrew or Tristan to travel undetected or avoid attention,” their lawyers wrote. The attorneys asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis to release the brothers on bail if they surrender their passports and submit to location monitoring.
Andrew Tate, 39, and Tristan Tate, 38, were arrested in Miami on July 18. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said the next day it had filed new charges against the pair tied to four alleged victims between July 2010 and August 2017. Those new counts bring the brothers’ combined tally to 59 charges in Britain, including rape, sex trafficking and offenses involving indecent images of a child.
The Tate brothers, both former professional kickboxers who hold dual U.S. and British citizenship, deny any wrongdoing. The brothers built a large online following promoting their views on masculinity and wealth; Andrew Tate has previously described himself as a misogynist.
Prosecutors with the Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office are due to respond to the bail bid by Monday, and Judge Louis has set a hearing on the brothers’ possible release for Thursday. Prosecutors have previously argued the brothers should stay detained because they pose a flight risk and a danger to the community.
Whether the brothers are ultimately extradited will not rest with the courts alone. Judge Louis or another judge assigned to the case must first determine whether Britain has supplied enough evidence to establish probable cause, after which the final call belongs to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Mr. Rubio told reporters in Manila last month, “There’s no role for us to play at this moment or maybe ever.”
Britain has until Sept. 16 to submit its full extradition request to the State Department. Britain’s original case against the brothers, authorized in January 2024 and tied to three alleged victims, runs to 21 counts — rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution for gain and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. A British judge issued a warrant for their arrest that same month, and they have not entered pleas to those charges. Britain is seeking to extradite the brothers to face both sets of charges.
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