Florida authorities would have helped to extradite Andrew Tate to the United Kingdom if requested, a new email has revealed.
The social media influencer and his brother, Tristan, flew to the US state on a private jet in February after a travel ban imposed on him during a human trafficking investigation was lifted.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the controversial pair were not welcome in the state.
In an email from March 7 to lawyers representing four women who accuse Tate of rape and sexual assault at the High Court in London, Florida authorities said they would ‘assist in executing and complying’ with any extradition request made by the UK.
The Tates are due to be extradited to the UK following the conclusion of proceedings in Romania after Bedfordshire Police secured a European arrest warrant for separate allegations of rape and human trafficking involving different women.
Those allegations, which the two brothers ‘unequivocally deny’, date back to 2012-2015.
The Trump administration reportedly pressed the Romanian government to lift travel restrictions on the brothers before they were allowed to fly to Florida.
In a UK High Court case, which is separate from the Bedfordshire Police investigation, four women are suing Andrew Tate after the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute in 2019.
Three of the British accusers were the subject of an investigation by Hertfordshire Constabulary, which was closed in 2019.
On Tuesday, a hearing at the High Court heard there was a ‘total denial of any wrongdoing’ by Tate.
The email from Florida authorities about his potential extradition, which was addressed to lawyers representing the four women, read: ‘I have advised the Statewide Prosecutor of our conversation and confirmed that should the United Kingdom have an extradition order that needs to be acted upon, our state authorities will assist in executing and complying.
‘I hope this assists in the service of process for the cases in the United Kingdom.’
The brothers were initially arrested in December 2022. In Romania, the Tate brothers are facing allegations of trafficking minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering.
A separate case against them, in which they are accused of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, has been sent back to prosecutors.
The brothers deny all allegations against them.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘As a matter of long-standing policy and practice, the UK will neither confirm nor deny that an extradition request has been made or received. Given the ongoing Romanian investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further.’
Home Office sources indicated that Romanian authorities have agreed that the brothers will be surrendered to the UK after the conclusion of proceedings in their country.
Tate hit back in defiance once his plane had landed in Florida in late February, saying he was ‘innocent until proven guilty’.
In 2016, Andrew Tate was removed from the 17th series of Big Brother after just six days, after a video came out showing Tate hitting a woman with a belt.
When responding to the allegations made towards Harvey Weinstein in 2017, Tate wrote a number of vile tweets in which he stated that women should ‘bare some responsibility’ for being raped.
In the same year, he was also criticised tweeting that depression ‘isn’t real.’
In August 2022, following an online campaign by Hope Not Hate to deplatform him, Tate was permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram, losing 4.7 million followers.
The 36-year-old was arrested in December 2022 in a raid on his property shortly after trolling climate activist Greta Thunberg in a video posted on Twitter – the timing of which has fuelled speculation the clip may have played a role in the police operation.
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