Andrew Tate has a new emergency to announce, and once again there’s no way to check whether it’s true.
In a post on X on September 18, the former kickboxer and self-proclaimed “Top G” claimed that the mother of his daughter had been badly hurt.
“The mother of my daughter was in a serious car crash. She is in hospital,” he wrote, before pivoting to a separate complaint about jail conditions. “Since I came to FDC, I have not been afforded a single phone call in 60 days. Not one. This is against the law. In Romania, I had phone calls. Here, I have zero. I asked the staff urgently for my first phone call in 60 days, to speak to the mother of my child who’s in hospital after a car crash. They declined my call. Walked away. Nobody has been outside of my cell for 12 hours since, I have nobody to protest to.”
He tagged the Federal Bureau of Prisons account directly. The post has racked up 1.6 million views.
There’s just one problem: the Department of Justice has already contradicted his account of being cut off from the outside world. Given how often the Tate brothers have reached for a sick or injured family member when they wanted sympathy, public pressure, or a legal favor, it’s worth asking whether this latest claim deserves the benefit of the doubt.
It wouldn’t be the first time. Andrew and his brother Tristan have a well-documented pattern of citing a relative’s supposed medical crisis when it suited them. Both brothers have claimed their own mother suffered a heart attack, using the claim in an attempt to secure permission to leave Romania while they were under investigation there. Medical records produced afterward told a different story than the one they had presented.
During an earlier stretch in Romanian custody, Andrew posted dramatic photos alleging he’d been poisoned, while associates of his separately and falsely claimed he had been diagnosed with cancer.
In 2023, members of his Hustler’s University affiliate network were mobilized to produce videos pressuring the US embassy to let the brothers travel to see their ailing grandmother.
Taken together, it’s a track record that shows a willingness to invoke a loved one’s health for leverage, whatever the cost to accuracy.
The new claims arrive alongside a second post, dated a day earlier, in which Tate described conditions inside FDC Miami’s Special Housing Unit in far bleaker terms than the standard complaints about pretrial detention.
“My situation is deteriorating,” he wrote. “Despite spending 61 days in the SHU, the punitive unit for inmates who attack other prisoners and guards, I have once again had my conditions downgraded.”
He said he’d been moved to a cell with no hot water, no air conditioning, and what he described as a serious roach infestation. “I have stone-cold water and filth. That’s it. Nothing else.”
He went further, drawing a comparison between his treatment and that of immigration detainees.
“I understand that after large-scale protests, ICE detainees are no longer held in the SHU unit because of the damage done to their physical and mental health,” he wrote. “So illegals are too good for these rooms, but I’m in one. I, an American citizen, here legally, with zero criminal record globally and no accusations of wrongdoing in the United States, am held in the SHU unit. This is unusual punishment. This violates civil rights. This is being done to me on purpose.”
Tate said he’d been respectful throughout his detention and pointed to a specific incident to illustrate what he described as unfair treatment.
“The last time he spoke to me, was two weeks ago, when during Rec he stormed into the yard with other guards, handcuffed me and Tristan behind our backs and screamed in our faces,” he wrote, adding that the outburst was reportedly triggered by the brothers having extra books in their cell. “He lost his mind over books. I’ve never seen a man so angry, over a book. I felt sorry for him.”
He claimed he has compiled a dossier for his legal and public relations teams.
“I have prepared a package, currently with my legal and PR teams, of every single infraction I have witnessed in this facility,” he wrote, inviting other former detainees to come forward. “ANYONE who has previously complained against this facility can contact my legal team.”
All of this is unfolding against a serious legal backdrop. UK prosecutors have formally requested that the United States extradite both Andrew and Tristan Tate to face a combined 59 charges, including r[]pe and s[]x trafficking, tied to allegations spanning 2010 to 2017.
The Crown Prosecution Service originally filed 21 charges before adding 38 more in July. Both brothers deny any wrongdoing. The State Department received the extradition paperwork last week and must now determine whether it satisfies the terms of the existing US-UK extradition agreement before the request moves to the Justice Department and, eventually, a court.
The brothers have been held in Florida since their arrest in July and were denied bail last week.
Their lawyer, Joe McBride, has signaled he intends to dispute the extradition request on procedural grounds, arguing British authorities haven’t handed over what’s legally required. He told the BBC the UK had failed to provide “a warrant, a charging document, and information that provides a reasonable basis to believe my clients committed these offences.”
McBride said neither brother had even been given a copy of the extradition request or its supporting paperwork, and didn’t hold back in characterizing the process. “This cloak-and-dagger act speaks to the deception behind these accusations and to their weakness,” he said.
The Home Office, for its part, offered no specifics when asked about the case. A spokesperson said only, “As a matter of long-standing policy and practice, we do not routinely comment on individual cases.”
