The controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have landed in Florida, after Romanian officials announced that judicial restrictions were raised that prohibits them from leaving Romania while waiting for the trial.
The couple traveled aboard a private jet after he was allowed to leave Romania, according to a source close to the brothers.
His spokesman shared a live diet of the plane that reached Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning.
In this archive photo, Andrew Tate greets when he leaves the Bucharest court with his brother Tristan, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, January 9, 2025.
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The charges against the Tates remain in force, and they are expected to return to Romania for appearances in court, according to A statement of the Romania Directorate to investigate organized crime and terrorism, or Diicot.
The brothers had been limited to Romania since the late 2022 when they were arrested for accusations of human trafficking, money laundering and formation of an organized criminal group.
They were accused in 2023 and have denied the accusations.
Tates’s departure follows the reports that Trump administration officials had pressed Romania to have raised a prohibition of traveling while waiting for the trial.
A lawyer for an American woman who is one of the alleged key victims in the Romanian criminal case against Andrew Tate condemned the Trump administration after she was allowed to leave Romania.
“It seems clear that the United States intervened in Romania to help Tate brothers who are being prosecuted for the sexual trafficking of more than 35 women, including minors,” said Dani Pinter, a senior vice president of the National Center for Sexual Exploitation, in a statement. “This is a slap to all the victims of the Tate brothers, especially the American victim who is not being protected by his country.”
The private plane that transported Andrew and Tristan Tate lands at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 27, 2025.
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The governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, said that his office had no participation in the case and discovered through the media that the brothers were traveling to Florida.
“But the reality is that, no, Florida is not a place where he of anything with that kind of behavior in the air,” he said when a journalist asked him at an unrelated press conference on Thursday if Andrew Tate is welcome in Florida.
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