Andrew and Tristan Tate appeared in a Miami federal courtroom on Monday as extradition proceedings to the U.K. began, after they were arrested Saturday in Miami by the U.S. Marshals Service on a sealed warrant, agency spokesperson Brady McCarron told The Associated Press.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it has requested the brothers' extradition from the United States, and a U.S. Department of Justice spokesperson told the BBC the arrests were "pursuant to extradition proceedings."
The Crown Prosecution Service said Andrew Tate faces seven additional counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges relating to illegal child images and pornography, and that Tristan Tate faces one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation; the allegations cover alleged offenses from July 2010 to August 2017.
Malcolm McHaffie, head of the Special Crime Division at the Crown Prosecution Service, said, "These charging decisions followed receipt of a further file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police and bring the total number of alleged victims in this case to seven."
U.K. authorities said four more alleged victims came forward with accusations including rape, sex trafficking, assault and child pornography.
They have been held in a Florida jail since their arrest, and in court on Monday the brothers wore light brown prison uniforms and were handcuffed and shackled at the waist and ankles; they spoke only when asked if they understood their rights, replying together, "yes your honour."
The Crown Prosecution Service announced 38 new charges against the brothers, and police said the pair now face a total of 59 charges.
Joseph McBride, an attorney representing the Tates, said he had not been able to speak with his clients and 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. He added, "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."
After the hearing the brothers' attorney Joe McBride told reporters, "They've never done nothing wrong. They shouldn't be extradited for crimes they didn't commit," and called the case "garbage" and "a stitch up job," comparing the charges to legal proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump and calling the attempted extradition "political kidnapping." McBride estimated the extradition proceedings would take "around 60 days."
The judge set the brothers' next court hearing for July 27, and any final decision on extradition would ultimately have to be made by the Trump administration.
They were arrested on Saturday nearby a venue where Andrew Tate was due to co-host a bare-knuckle fighting event.
The brothers are dual U.S. and British citizens who moved to Romania in 2016; they were arrested in Romania in 2022 on accusations of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation, and Romanian prosecutors later lifted a travel ban that allowed them to arrive in Florida in 2025. They also face charges in Romania accusing them of human trafficking and of forming an organized group to sexually exploit women, and Andrew Tate has been accused of rape in that case.
In the U.S. they also face a civil case from a woman who alleges the brothers coerced her into sex work and then defamed her after she gave evidence to Romanian authorities.
The Associated Press reported Andrew Tate first reached a mainstream audience as a contestant on the U.K. reality television show "Big Brother," was removed after a video surfaced that appeared to show him assaulting a woman, and has amassed over 10 million followers on X while being banned from YouTube, TikTok and Instagram for violating hate speech guidelines.