Emory Andrew Tate III (born 1 December 1986) is an American-British social media

personality, businessman, and former professional K-1 kickboxer. Tate began

practising kickboxing in 2005 and won his first championship in 2009; he later
became a four-time world champion. In 2016 he appeared on the British reality show
Big Brother but was removed as he was the suspect in an open rape investigation in
the UK. After his kickboxing career, Tate and his brother, Tristan, began operating
a webcam model business, followed by selling online courses; notably Hustler's
University, which gained 100,000 subscribers, later rebranded to The Real World,
and the secretive War Room group, which has been accused of grooming women into sex
work and teaching violence against women.[3]

His controversial commentary has resulted in de-platforming from various social

media platforms[4] and concern from advocacy groups, charities, non-profit
organisations, teachers, parents, mental health experts, as well as UK counter-
terror police. Surveys have found that most Britons have heard of Tate, who is
viewed favourably among many young men, considered influential, and has been dubbed
the "king of toxic masculinity" by multiple media outlets,[5] as part of the
"manosphere".[6] With appearances on conspiracy news site InfoWars, Tate has been
described as a right-wing and far-right influencer, and has described himself as
"absolutely" misogynistic and sexist. In August 2023, it was estimated that Tate's
online ventures generated US$5 million in revenue per month. As of December 2023,
Tate had over 8.5 million followers on X (formerly Twitter) and was the third-most
"googled" person in 2023.

In December 2022, he and his brother Tristan were arrested in Romania along with
two women, all four suspected of human trafficking and forming an organised crime
group. Romanian police alleged that the group coerced victims into creating paid
pornography in a criminal operation to financially benefit the four accused
persons.[7] In March 2023, all four were moved to house arrest while the
investigation continued, after being held in custody since their arrest.[8][9] In
June, they were charged with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised
crime group to sexually exploit women. Tate and his brother deny all charges.[10]
In July, two of the accusers reportedly went into hiding after a campaign of online
harassment,[11] and the Tate brothers filed a defamation lawsuit claiming US$5
million in damages against one of the accusers.[12]

Early life
Emory Andrew Tate III was born on 1 December 1986,[13][14][15] in Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington, D.C.[16] He is mixed-race.[17] His African American
father Emory Tate (1958–2015) was a chess international master[18] and his English
mother worked as a catering assistant.[19] 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 both brothers to England.[20] He was
educated at Halyard High School and Luton Sixth Form College.[21][22] Tate was
raised in the Christian faith.[23]

Kickboxing career
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).[24] In 2009, he gained his first
championship when he won the British ISKA Full Contact Cruiserweight Championship
in Derby, and Won the International Kickboxing Federation British belt and got
ranked number one in his division in Europe.[25][26] Tate's kickboxing nickname was
"King Cobra".[27]

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.[28] In 2012, Tate lost the Enfusion championship tournament to
Franci Grajš.[1] Before his loss, he was ranked second-best light-heavyweight
kickboxer in the world.[29] 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.[30] He defended the ISKA Belt and Won the Enfusion Belt in 2014 making
him a four-time world champion,[31] prior to retiring with 31 recorded fights.[32]

Big Brother
Tate came to wider public attention in 2016 when he appeared on the British reality
show Big Brother, during its seventeenth series.[33] While appearing on the show,
he came under scrutiny for having made homophobic and racist comments on Twitter in
the past.[34] He was removed from the show after six days, with producers citing a
video apparently showing him hitting a woman with a belt.[35] Tate and the woman
said that they were friends and that the actions in the video were consensual.[36]
[35][37] 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.[38]

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.[39][40]
Tate's website offers training courses on accumulating wealth and "male–female
interactions".[35] According to the website, he also operated a webcam studio using
his girlfriends as the employees.[35] Tate and his brother Tristan started the
webcam business, employing as many as 75 webcam models[41] to sell "fake sob
stories" to male callers,[42] claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so.
He later said that the business model was a "total scam".[43] In August 2023, it
was estimated the Hustler's University and The War Room generated $5 million per
month from subscriptions.[44]