Andrew Tate

His African-American father Emory Tate (1958–2015) was a chess international master, and his English mother Eileen Tate worked as a catering assistant.

He has a younger brother, Tristan, and a younger sister, Janine.

He was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Goshen, Indiana.

After his parents divorced, his mother took him and his brother to Luton, England.

He was educated at Halyard High School and Luton Sixth Form College.

Tate was raised as a Christian.

Emory Andrew Tate III (born 1 December 1986) is an American-British social media personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer.

His contentious commentary has resulted in expulsions from various social media platforms and concern from advocacy groups, parents, teachers, and counter-terror police.

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Surveys have found that most British people are aware of Tate, who has been dubbed the "king of toxic masculinity",Multiple sources:

Emory Andrew Tate III was born on 1 December 1986 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

He is multiracial.

Tate started practising boxing and other martial arts in 2005, and worked in the television advertising industry to support himself.

In November 2008, he was ranked the seventh-best light heavyweight kickboxer in the United Kingdom by the International Sport Kickboxing Association (ISKA).

In 2009, he received his first championship when he won the British ISKA Full Contact Cruiserweight Championship in Derby, won the International Kickboxing Federation British belt and received the top rank in his division across Europe.

Tate's kickboxing nickname was "King Cobra".

In 2011, Tate won his first International Sport Kickboxing Association (ISKA) world title in a rematch against Jean-Luc Benoît via knockout, having previously lost to Benoit by decision.

In 2012, Tate lost the Enfusion championship tournament to Franci Grajš.

Before his loss, he was ranked second-best light-heavyweight kickboxer in the world.

In 2013, Tate won his second ISKA world title in a 12-round match against Vincent Petitjean, making him world champion in two weight divisions.

He defended the ISKA Belt and Won the Enfusion Belt in 2014 making him a four-time world champion, prior to retiring with 31 recorded fights.

In 2016, he appeared on the British reality series Big Brother, but was removed as he was the suspect in an open rape investigation in the United Kingdom.

After his kickboxing career, Tate and his brother, Tristan, began operating a webcam model business, followed by selling online courses.

The latter includes: Hustler's University, which gained 100,000 subscribers, later rebranded to The Real World; and the secretive War Room group, which has been accused by the BBC of coercing women into sex work, and teaching violence against women.

In August 2023, it was estimated that Tate's online ventures generated US$5 million in revenue per month.

He has also been described as a right-wing and far-right influencer, and has described himself as "absolutely" misogynistic and sexist.

In December 2022, Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in Romania along with two women.

All four were later charged with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.

Tate and his brother deny all charges.

Romanian police alleged that the group coerced victims into creating paid pornography in a criminal operation to financially benefit the four accused persons.

In July 2023, two of the accusers reportedly went into hiding after a campaign of online harassment, and the Tate brothers filed a defamation lawsuit claiming US$5 million in damages against one of the accusers.

As of January 2024, the group remains under judicial control with pre-trial restrictions, that Tate has appealed, after being held in custody for three months since their arrest.

Tate gained widespread attention in 2016 when he appeared on the British reality series Big Brother, during its seventeenth series.

While appearing on the show, he came under scrutiny for previously making homophobic and racist comments on Twitter.

He was removed from the show after six days, with producers citing a video apparently showing him hitting a woman with a belt.

Tate and the woman said that they were friends and that the actions in the video were consensual.

Vice later reported that the removal was caused by the producers becoming aware of an ongoing police investigation for rape, closed in 2019 with no charges filed.

Tate's website offers training courses on accumulating wealth and "male–female interactions".

According to the website, he also operated a webcam studio using his girlfriends as the employees.

Tate and his brother Tristan started the webcam business, employing as many as 75 webcam models to sell "fake sob stories" to male callers, claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so.