Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have appeared in a federal courtroom in Miami, marking the beginning of extradition proceedings to the UK over a slate of new charges that includes rape and sex trafficking. <\/p>\n
Speaking outside the court after the hearing, a lawyer for the brothers said they would fight extradition.<\/p>\n
The Tates have been held in a Florida jail since their arrest on Saturday, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which prosecutes criminal cases in England and Wales, announced 38 new charges against them. <\/p>\n
The Tate brothers, who arrived in Florida in 2025 after departing Romania where they face similar charges, have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. <\/p>\n
In court on Monday, the pair wore light brown prison uniforms and were handcuffed and shackled at the waist and ankles. <\/p>\n
They spoke only when asked if they understood their rights to which they replied together “yes your honour”.<\/p>\n
The brothers’ attorney, Joe McBride, told reporters after the brief hearing that his clients are innocent. <\/p>\n
“They’ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they didn’t commit,” McBride said. <\/p>\n
“It’s garbage. It’s a stitch up job,” he added. <\/p>\n
He compared the charges against the men to the legal proceedings against US President Donald Trump – which he called a “witch hunt” – and referred to the attempted extradition as “political kidnapping”. <\/p>\n
When asked how long the extradition proceedings would take, McBride estimated ahead of the hearing that it would be “around 60 days”. <\/p>\n
The judge set the brother’s next court hearing for 27 July, according to AP News. <\/p>\n
Any final decision on extradition would ultimately have to be made by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
The latest allegations against the men were said to have occurred between July 2010 and August 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have appeared in a federal courtroom in Miami, marking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-702165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}