Contrary to general belief (and recent Sam Fender-spurred conversation about “white privilege”), Tate and his brother are bi-racial, raised by their African American father Emory Tate, who was a chess International Master, and their White English mother Eileen Tate, who worked as a catering assistant.
Andrew Tate is the far more popular of the two Tate brothers and is largely responsible for their meteoric rise online, with his views on women, masculinity and transgender people first gaining virality in 2022.
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been allowed to leave Romania despite being under investigation by police on charges of rape, sex trafficking and money laundering in their home country.
Tristan Tate, Andrew’s younger brother, arguably lives in his brother’s shadow — but he doesn’t seem to mind.
He breached the mainstream in 2022, building a strong following on TikTok, Instagram and X. Andrew Tate became the third-most Googled person of 2023, with his Wikipedia page ranking among the top 25 English Wikipedia articles that year.
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