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Who is Andrew Tate? Your guide to the self-styled misogynist influencer

Tate, a highly controversial social media celebrity, started his week as the butt of a joke by Greta Thunberg and ended it by reportedly getting arrested in Romania. Here's what you need to know.
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism in Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday.
Updated December 30, 2022 at 3:55 PM ET

Sports cars, a pizza box, Greta Thunberg, Romania, sex-trafficking and a highly controversial internet celebrity. If you've heard someone talking about any of these things this week, chances are you also wanted to ask them: Who, exactly, is Andrew Tate?

The man at the center of it all has long been a magnet for such a question. He's been described as the "King of Toxic Masculinity," one of the "internet's most controversial figures" and "the Top G."

And in the latest news, and say he's been arrested on charges of human

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