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Emory Andrew Tate III (born December 1, 1986) is a British and American social media personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer.

Tate began practicing kickboxing in 2005 and gained his first championship in 2009. He attracted wider attention in 2016, when he appeared on the British reality show Big Brother and was removed after his comments on social media attracted controversy. He began offering paid courses and memberships through his website and rose to fame as an internet celebrity, promoting an "ultra-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle". Tate's misogynistic commentary has resulted in his suspension from several social media platforms.[4][5][6][7]

On December 29, 2022, Andrew and his brother Tristan were arrested in Romania along with two women; all four are suspected of human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. Romanian police allege that the group coerced victims into creating paid pornography for social media.[8] On March 31, all four were moved to house arrest while the investigation continues. No indictment has yet been filed, and prosecutors have said that they have until late June to send the case to trial.[9][10]

Early life
Emory Andrew Tate III[11] was born on December 1, 1986,[12][4] in Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.[13] He is mixed-race.[14] His African American father Emory Tate was a chess international master[15] and his English mother worked as a catering assistant.[16] He has a younger brother, Tristan. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Goshen, Indiana. After his parents divorced, his mother took both brothers to England.[17] Tate was raised in the Christian faith.[18]

Kickboxing career
Tate started practicing boxing and other martial arts in 2005, and worked in the TV advertising industry to support himself. In November 2008, he was ranked the seventh-best light heavyweight kickboxer in Britain by the International Sport Kickboxing Association (ISKA).[19] In 2009, he gained his first championship when he won the British ISKA Full Contact Cruiserweight Championship in Derby, and was ranked number one in his division in Europe.[20][21] Tate's kickboxing nickname was "King Cobra".[22]

In 2011, Tate won his first ISKA world title in a rematch against Jean-Luc Benoit via knockout, having previously lost to Benoit by decision.[23] 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.[24] 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.[25]

Big Brother
Tate came to public attention in 2016 when he appeared on the British reality show Big Brother, during its seventeenth series.[26] While appearing on the show, he came under scrutiny for having made homophobic and racist comments on Twitter.[27] He was removed from the show after six days, with producers citing a video apparently showing him hitting a woman with a belt.[28] Tate and the woman said that they were friends and that the actions in the video were consensual.[29][28][30] Vice later reported that the removal was caused by an ongoing police investigation, closed in 2019 with no charges filed.[31]

Online ventures
Tate's website offers training courses on accumulating wealth and "male–female interactions".[28] According to the website, he also operated a webcam studio using his girlfriends as employees.[28] Tate and his brother Tristan started the webcam business, employing as many as 75 webcam models[32] to sell "fake sob stories" to male callers,[33] claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so. He later said that the business model was a "total scam".[34]

Tate operated Hustler's University, a platform where members paid a $49.99 monthly membership fee to receive instruction on ways to make money outside traditional employment, such as cryptocurrency, copywriting, and e-commerce, which was facilitated by pre-recorded videos and a Discord server.[35] The website employed an affiliate marketing program, where members received a commission for recruiting others to the platform.[36] Tate became highly prominent in 2022 by encouraging members of Hustler's University to post large numbers of videos of him to social media platforms in an effort to maximize engagement.[29] As of August 2022, its website had amassed over 100,000 subscribers.[37] That same month, the Irish-American financial services company Stripe pulled out of processing subscriptions for the platform, and Hustler's University shut down its affiliate marketing program.[36] Paul Harrigan, a marketing professor at the University of Western Australia, stated the affiliate program constituted a social media pyramid scheme.[38]

After Hustler's University was shut down, Tate launched a rebranded version of the program called "The Real World" in October 2022.[39]

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