Andrew Tate

Early life Emory Andrew Tate III was born on 1 December 1986 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He is multiracial; his African American father, Emory Tate (1958–2015), was an Air Force staff sergeant who later became a chess international master, while his White English mother, Eileen Tate, worked as a catering assistant. He has a younger brother, Tristan, and a younger sister, Janine. He was raised in Germany, Elkhart, Indiana, and Goshen, Indiana. They "lived on Marsh Farm, an infamously rough council estate which Tate has described as the 'worst area of the worst town. He was educated at Halyard High School and Luton Sixth Form College.

Career

2005–2016: Kickboxing career Tate began kickboxing in 2005, competing as a full-contact fighter under the nickname "King Cobra" while working in television advertising to support himself. He returned briefly in 2020 to fight lower-ranked opponents in Romania before retiring a second time with a career record of 76 wins, 9 losses, and 1 draw in the K-1 Rules and full-contact styles.

Tate's brother, Tristan, was also a professional kickboxer, twice winning the ISKA British light cruiserweight title before retiring early because of a shoulder injury, with a record of 43–9.

In 2023, Enfusion announced a new promotional label named after the brothers, T8KO, with Tate and Tristan as media partners. After Tate's arrest, the Dutch Fight Sports Authority required Enfusion to drop the brothers from the project and rename it 8TKO.

2014–2022: Webcam business In early 2014, while still competing as a professional kickboxer, Tate began a webcam pornography business with several women he was then dating. Tate has said that in the business's first month he made more than $100,000; he and his brother subsequently bought an Aston Martin. In the series, Tate was a member of a secret second house, part of a group called "The Others." He was removed from the show after six days, with producers saying that it was because of events outside the house and Tate saying that it was about a video which appeared to show him striking a woman with a belt on the show. Producers also said that he was not let go because of the uncovered tweets. Tate and the woman said that they were friends and that the actions in the video were consensual.

2017–2022: Online ventures Online ventures pyramid as depicted in Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World?, BBC Three documentary, August 2023. Numbers correspond to followers and subscribers of platforms. Tate's website offers training courses on accumulating wealth and "male–female interactions". Tate and his brother, Tristan, started the webcam business, employing as many as 75 webcam models claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so. and The Guardian wrote of his transition from a kickboxer to "a webcam pimp". Tate later acknowledged that the business model was a "total scam". In August 2023, it was estimated that The Real World and The War Room generated US$5 million monthly from subscriptions. The site employed an affiliate marketing program, where members received a commission for recruiting others to the platform.

Tate became prominent in 2022 by encouraging members of Hustler's University to post videos of him to social media platforms, in an effort to maximise engagement. The Irish-American financial services company Stripe pulled out of processing subscriptions for the platform, and Hustler's University shut down its affiliate marketing program. Paul Harrigan, a marketing professor at the University of Western Australia, said the affiliate programme was a social media pyramid scheme. Tate described the claim that Hustler's University's operated as a pyramid scheme as false.

The Real World primarily targets male teenagers. Former Real World students have described the programme as having a "cult-like atmosphere." The Real World has been described by a lawyer for former members as the male version of the Tate brothers' "digital grooming". Members refer to each other as "G" with Tate being the "Top G". The group is centred on Tate's "41 Tenets for men." The Real World course offering included cryptocurrency, e-commerce, and drop shipping. In January 2024, analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found The Real World official YouTube channel had received 450 million video views, and according to the researchers, a third party's channel had gained nearly 300 million views reposting The Real World content. The researchers suggested that YouTube had earned up to £2.4m in revenue from advertisements on these two channels, and criticised the company for not banning similar third party channels sooner. YouTube responded by describing the estimate as "wildly inaccurate and overinflated".

In May 2024, the website for The Real World leaked the personal data of 968,447 user accounts due to a misconfigured database. Leaked information included email addresses and account passwords. In addition, 22 million messages sent by users on the platform were also openly accessible. In November, the website suffered a cyberattack which leaked the usernames of 794,000 former and current members, 324,382 registered email addresses, as well as the contents of 221 public and 395 private chat servers.

The War Room The War Room promotes self-discipline, motivation and confidence building whilst giving members access to thousands of professionals from around the world who encourage personal responsibility and accountability, emphasising the importance of taking ownership of your choices and actions. — Andrew Tate, August 2023 A senior member of the group, Miles Sonkin, also known as Iggy Semmelweiss, is the supposed leader of the group according to a BBC investigation. Semmelweiss reportedly met Tate in 2018, with the group established in 2019. described as an all-male secretive society. As of August 2022, there were 434 members and 45 potential victims, based on the leaked chat logs. He has encouraged those who hold the coin to join The Real World and has promoted the coin heavily on his social media.

In October 2024, Andrew Tate was sent a series of questions by the YouTube channel Coffeezilla about his meme coin DADDY. In response, Tate doxxed Coffeezilla and encouraged his supporters to email abusive content to Coffeezilla with Tate specifically requesting that they call him "gay".

Boxing

In August 2025, sports journalist Ariel Helwani broke the news that Tate was in advanced talks with Misfits Boxing to compete in a heavyweight bout by the end of the year. However, a day later BBC Sport contacted DAZN and were informed that Tate was in fact not in negotiations with Misfits despite the earlier reports, Misfits declined to comment. On 15 October Daily Mirror reported that Tate was set to make his face reality star Chase DeMoor for the MFB heavyweight title, with the bout set to take place on 20 December at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, UAE. On 19 October, Misfits formally announced the event with a promotional video that featured a cobra wrapping around a Christmas tree, a subtle nod to Tate's fighting alias. On 30 October, the bout between Tate and DeMoor was announced to headline Misfits Mania – The Fight Before Christmas, accompanied with a promotional video that claimed Tate had replaced KSI as the CEO of Misfits. Tate was defeated by DeMoor via majority decision.

Criminal investigations and civil cases

2010s Tate was first arrested in Britain in July 2015 after two women filed complaints accusing him of rape and assault and was again arrested on suspicion of rape in December 2015.

2018 Canadian alt-right YouTuber and political activist Lauren Southern wrote in her 2025 memoir that she had met Tate in Romania in 2018. She said in the book that, after he had taken her from a nightclub to her hotel room, "He kissed me. I wasn't expecting it, and I wasn't looking for it, but I kissed him back briefly and then told him I wanted to sleep." She said that, after he insisted in touching her and she tried to fight back, he "put his arm around my neck and began strangling me unconscious. I tried to fight back…. I'd prefer not to share the rest. It's pretty obvious."

2020s

2022 The brothers have appealed multiple times to the Bucharest Court of Appeal, located in The Palace of Justice (pictured). The court has overturned tribunal decisions and rejected other appeals. In April 2022, the US embassy received a report that an American citizen was being held against her will in a property the Tate brothers own in Pipera, Romania. Romanian police raided the home and a nearby webcam studio belonging to the Tates, where they discovered four women. Two of them, the American and another Romanian woman, told the police they were being held against their will, sparking an investigation into human trafficking and rape by DIICOT, the Romanian anti-organised crime agency. Later in December, police arrested the Tates and two women. All four were suspected of human trafficking and forming an organised crime group, and one of them is suspected of rape. Romanian authorities seized 29 assets, including cars, properties, watches, and money, totalling almost US$4 million.

2023 In June 2023, DIICOT adjusted the charges from human trafficking to "human trafficking in continued form", a more serious charge, with seven victims identified. The four accused were indicted on charges of rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women. They continue to deny all charges and remain under investigation for money laundering and trafficking of minors.

2024 In January 2024, the Romanian criminal case was heard in the preliminary chamber before a trial date was set, That same month, US District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg dismissed another of the brothers' defamation lawsuits. They had sued a former United States Marine Corps sergeant who reported Tate to the US Embassy in Romania and military officials, leading to his arrest by Romanian authorities.

In March 2024, Westminster Magistrates' Court issued a European arrest warrant against Andrew and Tristan Tate. According to Tate's representative, the charges are based on allegations of sexual aggression from 2012 to 2015. Two months later, the three women involved in the British investigation, along with a fourth British woman, brought a civil case against Tate.

In August 2024, Romanian police expanded their investigation against Tate to include trafficking minors, sex with a minor, money laundering and attempting to influence witnesses. Prosecutors said the new investigation involves 35 alleged victims, including a woman who was a minor at the time.

In December 2024, the Westminster Magistrates' Court ruled in favour of the Devon and Cornwall Police, allowing them to seize £2.8 million worth of unpaid taxes from the Tate brothers' online businesses.

2025 In February 2025, Alison Hernandez, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall in the UK, announced that the force had received around £1.2 million and she hoped that the funds would be used to support the victims of violence against women and girls.

Later that month, Romanian authorities lifted the travel ban that had confined the Tate brothers to the country since their arrest. Tate left Romania by private jet for the United States and arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he had become the subject of a statewide criminal investigation. According to reporting by The New Yorkers Heidi Blake, the decision followed lobbying from Trump-administration figures, including special presidential envoy Richard Grenell; a senior Romanian law-enforcement source told Blake the removal of the ban appeared to have been "imposed from outside the judicial system." Tate's ex-girlfriend, Brianna Stern, has accused him of choking and beating her at The Beverly Hills Hotel on 10 March, and Stern claims she was later diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome. She subsequently filed a lawsuit against Tate accusing him of physical and sexual abuse. Tate has denied her accusations.

In May 2025, the UK Crown Prosecution Service brought 21 charges against Tate and his brother Tristan including for rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking.

In June 2025, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office declined to prosecute Tate over Stern's allegations, citing insufficient evidence; Tate's attorney, Joseph McBride, said he had supplied a "do-not-prosecute packet" and subsequently filed a $50 million defamation countersuit against Stern. The UK Crown Prosecution Service announced they are seeking extradition of the brothers to the United Kingdom for pending seven charges of rape, three counts of sex trafficking, three counts of assault with bodily harm and 19 charges for child and extreme pornography, in addition to the charges previously filed in 2025. US Magistrate Lauren Louis set a hearing on 13 August to determine whether the brothers will remain detained while extradition hearings take place.

Following the arrests, Representative Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, asked chairman James Comer to investigate whether political connections between the Tate brothers and people close to President Donald Trump influenced the federal government's handling of their legal proceedings or extradition. In a letter, she requested records from the Department of Justice, the State Department, and the White House, and asked that Barron Trump testify before the committee regarding his knowledge of the Tate brothers, any involvement he may have had, and whether he communicated with members of his father's administration or the president concerning their legal proceedings. Ansari also cited investigative reports describing direct communications between Andrew Tate and Barron Trump. Barron Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing, and it remained unclear whether the Republican-led committee would pursue the requested investigation.

Views

Manosphere Tate in an interview on Anything Goes with James English, 2021Tate is an influencer in the manosphere and "alpha male" community, described as both right-wing and far-right. According to The Conversation, he is a recognised "thought leader" in the online manosphere who mobilises his supporters to spread his ideas to a broader audience. He otherwise identifies as a libertarian and has been dubbed the "king of toxic masculinity". American conservatives such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have platformed Tate as a proponent of "traditional views on men in the culture war raging over gender". and are "given to the man and belong to the man" and that women who do not stay home are "hoes".

Sexual harassment In 2017 Tate received attention for his tweets describing his view of what qualifies as sexual harassment amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases, and for tweeting several times that sexual assault victims share responsibility for their assaults.

Far-right ideologies

Tate is associated with far-right ideologies and individuals, including the British activist Tommy Robinson. Before 2022, Tate became known among the online far-right through his appearances on InfoWars and acquaintances including Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Paul Joseph Watson. He attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2019. Hope not Hate accuses Tate of a "long history of racist statements, homophobia and links to the organised far-right". The Conversation called Tate "not explicitly far right" but otherwise as a figure who has promoted far-right propaganda, including the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

Tate has questioned whether the Nazis were really the "bad guy" in World War II. In January 2025, after Elon Musk made a salute interpreted by many as a Nazi salute, Tate responded by saying, "we're so back".

Life discipline In a June 2023 interview with the BBC, Tate said that he was "acting under the instruction of God to do good things" and that "I preach hard work, discipline. I'm an athlete, I preach anti-drugs, I preach religion, I preach no alcohol, I preach no knife crime."

Other views

Tate has said that depression "isn't real." Tate stated that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is a hero. In March 2024, after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Maryland, Tate falsely claimed the ship that collided with the bridge "was cyber-attacked". Tate was accused of inciting online hate after becoming one of the first influencers to amplify misinformation about the 2024 Southport stabbings, leading to the far-right riots in the UK.

In the context of the Gaza war, Tate has accused Israel of "genociding" Palestinians and said that the October 7 attacks was "an eye for an eye". In response to the killing of Yahya Sinwar, he stated, "I can only pray for a death as heroic as Yahya Sinwar". Mother Jones reported that Tate also promoted an antisemitic conspiracy saying that the Matrix' is really just the Jewish mafia." With respect to Adolf Hitler and Holocaust denial, Tate stated, "stop crying over the Hitler crap" and "if they lied to us about Gaza and Israel … Do you think they lied about [the Second World War]?"

Political party launch In January 2025, Tate said on Twitter he was launching a political party, the Britain Restoring Underlying Values Party (a backronym of BRUV). The party website stated, "This is a war to reclaim Britain. No excuses, no compromises, no second chances. We will defend our borders, crush crime, purge corruption, and restore pride to a nation under siege."

The launch was widely ridiculed on social media, with one Twitter user describing its manifesto as a "mix of North Korea and homoeroticism" while another described the party as the "very worst idea in the history of British politics". Some speculated that it was a PR stunt, but Tate said, "I am 100% serious. I am in the next election". The party's Twitter account was suspended, then restored after Tate complained to Elon Musk.

The party manifesto pledged to "restore the once-Great Britain." It said Tate would step down as prime minister if his policies were not implemented within 45 days. The platform included: a 24/7 broadcast showing knife crime; prisoners serving life sentences in solitary confinement; opposition to rescuing migrants crossing the Channel; net-zero immigration; weekly referendums; a Department of Assistance & Development for Domestic Youth (DADDY), for aid, education, and development of British youth.

Reception Beginning in 2022, Tate's views and their influence on teenage boys and young men have become a particular concern of parents, teachers and mental health experts in much of the world, including North America, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The New York Times has described his views as "brainwashing a generation", due to his influence in British schools, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) considers Tate's misogyny mainstream, reporting that he "teaches his acolytes that women are inferior and morally deficient beings [...] who deserve to be physically, sexually and emotionally abused", and equating his philosophy to that of pickup artists.

A number of advocacy and research organisations condemned Tate's content in similar terms. The White Ribbon Campaign called his commentary "extremely misogynistic" and warned of "concerning" long-term effects on his young male audience; Hope not Hate said his presence risked becoming a "dangerous slip road into the far-right" for his audience and later called him a "legitimising force" for misogynistic views; and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue said he posed "a risk of radicalising young men into misogynist extremism". and UK domestic abuse charity Women's Aid said his popularity was "a current representation of existing misogyny" rather than a standalone phenomenon. In response, Tate said his content includes "many videos praising women" and aims to teach his audience to avoid "toxic and low-value people as a whole", and that he plays a "comedic character" that people misunderstand.

Response

In February 2023, courses for teachers in the United Kingdom on how to address Tate's views sold out. Of what was called violent misogyny and other forms of extremist content that Tate distributes online, the head of UK counter-terror policing has said, "I'm concerned about the effect of that kind of rhetoric in the minds of young boys". In April 2023, the Department for Education (DfE) discouraged discussion of Tate, with many citing his influence regarding sexual harassment and misogynistic incidents. The co-founder of the charity Diversify expressed frustration over the refusal to provide any resources or training for teachers.

In February 2024, the Shadow Education Secretary in the UK, Bridget Phillipson, said the Labour Party wanted to use male role models to counter the misogyny of influencers such as Tate. The proposal would implement "peer-to-peer mentoring" programs for school staff to directly address the impact of Tate and others. The general secretary of the National Education Union, Daniel Kebede, welcomed the plans, saying, "schools would welcome more support on how to respond to the online sexism and sexual harassment".

Surveys Several surveys have measured Tate's reach and influence among young people, particularly in the United Kingdom. A February 2023 Hope not Hate poll found eight in ten British males aged 16–17 had viewed Tate's content, with 45 per cent of British males aged 16–24 holding a positive view of him, compared to 1 per cent of British females aged 16–17. A September 2023 YouGov poll found 26–28 per cent of British men aged 18–39 agreed with Tate's views on women, though only 6 per cent of the 63 per cent of British adults who had heard of him held a positive view overall. A Women's Aid and ORB International survey the same month found 40 per cent of children aged 7–18 had heard of Tate, and that exposure to his content correlated with harmful perceptions of relationships, including being "five times more likely to think hurting people is OK". A February 2024 study by King's College London, the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and Ipsos similarly found only 6 per cent of UK adults held a favourable view of Tate, though one in five men aged 16–29 who had heard of him did.

A January 2023 survey of 500 teenage boys in Australia by "The Man Cave" found that 28 per cent looked up to Tate, and half of the 24 schools surveyed reported a "significant and negative impact" on their students.

Social media An early YouTube channel Andrew and Tristan made was called the Hateful Tates. Tate became widely known in mid-2022 and was searched on Google more times than both Donald Trump and COVID-19 that July. an increase of 5 million since December 2022. As of August 2024, Tate has 9.9 million followers on X. He was the third-most googled person in 2023, and his Wikipedia article was ranked among the top 25 English Wikipedia articles in 2023.

In December 2022, Tate addressed the environmentalist Greta Thunberg in a tweet extolling his carbon-emitting automobiles and asked for her email address to give her more information. Thunberg replied with the fake, satirical email address "[email protected]". The exchange received substantial attention on Twitter, with Thunberg's retort quickly becoming one of the most-liked tweets ever.

Tate gained notoriety on social media for promoting a "hyper-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle" and a "hyper-macho image".

In January 2023 the BBC reported that Tate and his brother had used social media to contact various young women in an attempt to get them to join their webcam business. A year later, the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that YouTube had earned up to £2.4 million in advertising revenue from Tate's content and accused YouTube of being "happy to continue to turn a blind eye". YouTube called the figure "wildly inaccurate and overinflated", highlighting that most channels are not monetised for such revenue. Their parent company, Meta, said he had violated its policy on "dangerous organizations and individuals". TikTok, where videos featuring Tate's name as a hashtag have been viewed over 13 billion times, also removed his account after determining that it violated their policies on "content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanises an individual or a group". In November 2022, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, Tate's Twitter account was reinstated.

Tate responded to the bans by saying that, while most of his comments were taken out of context, he took responsibility for how they were received. The YouTuber and boxer Jake Paul denounced Tate's sexism but characterised the bans as censorship. Tate's content continues to circulate on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok via fan accounts. After the bans, Tate moved to the alt-tech platforms Gettr and Rumble, causing the latter to briefly become the most downloaded app on the Apple App Store.

Personal life In 2017 Tate and his brother moved from the United Kingdom to Romania, where they run multiple businesses. Tate said that he moved because he liked "living in countries where corruption is accessible for everybody" and believed he would be less likely to face rape charges in Romania. He said that Romanian police ask women reporting rapes for "evidence" or "CCTV proof", whereas in the Western world during the #MeToo movement any woman "at any point in the future can destroy your life". Tate reportedly has a number of children living in Romania whom he occasionally visits.

Tate was raised Christian but later became an atheist. By early 2022, he identified as a Christian again, and said that he tithed £16,000 to the Romanian Orthodox Church monthly. After a video of him praying at a mosque in Dubai went viral in October 2022, he announced on his Gettr account that he had converted to Islam.

In March 2023, while incarcerated in Romania, Tate's legal team said that "he has a dark spot on his lung, most likely a tumor" following a medical consultation in Dubai, sparking online rumours about whether he has lung cancer. Tate later denied on Twitter that he had cancer.

In June 2025, it was reported that Tate had received citizenship of Vanuatu through the country's citizenship by investment scheme in December 2022. A spokesperson for Vanuatu's government later stated that they were "definitely looking into" revoking Tate's citizenship.

Fighting record

Kickboxing record

Mixed martial arts record Professional record Win

Shane Kavanagh KO (punches) Ultimate Warrior Challenge 13

Essex, England Win

Matthew Wilkins Decision (unanimous) Ultimate Warrior Challenge 3

Essex, England Loss

William Morley Decision (unanimous) Ultimate Warrior Challenge 2

Southend-on-Sea, England Win

Lee Mayo Submission (guillotine choke) Ultimate Warrior Challenge 1

Southend-on-Sea, England MF–Professional boxing record