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Accused rapist brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate kept multiple passports under different aliases to travel abroad — including one name ripped from a James Bond novel.
Tristan Tate had a Mexican passport with his photograph and date of birth, but under “Vladimir Scorpius” — the name of the main villain in the 007 spy novel “Scorpius,” according to court documents against the misogynist influencers facing dozens of charges for rape and sex trafficking.
Tristan also posted an online video of himself on a ship declaring “I’m Vladimir Scorpius” and registered a UK company called “Scorpius Ltd.” in an apparent nod to the fictional arms dealer who appeared in the 1988 novel penned by John Gardner.
Andrew Tate, meanwhile, openly bragged on social media about having “8 lives … 8 licenses and passports,” and evading authorities in multiple countries, according to the document.
He’s alleged to have a stash of travel documents from the UK, US, Estonia, Nigeria, Poland and the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, British prosecutors said.
The details about the manosphere influencers’ slew of identities was revealed in new filings from the British Embassy in Washington this week in the Southern District of Florida opposing the brothers’ bid to be released on bond as they fight extradition to the UK.
The filing warns that they are a flight risk, and includes dozens of posts by Andrew Tate that “demonstrate that he has access to multiple passports, and that he is willing to use false identities to evade law enforcement.”
British prosecutors also claimed that “there are substantial grounds to believe that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate would attempt to identify and interfere with witnesses if released.”
Andrew Tate, 39, and his brother Tristan, 38, were arrested by US Marshals at a bare-knuckle boxing event in Miami on July 18 and are being held in secure housing in federal detention.
The brothers are fighting extradition to the UK, where they face a combined total of 59 criminal charges there, including rape, sex trafficking and offenses related to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
A detention hearing for the controversial siblings is scheduled for Thursday.
Their lawyer, Joe McBride, admitted to The Post outside of the federal courthouse in Miami last month that “it’s a tall climb” for the judge to accept the brothers’ release.
The brothers were being harassed by other inmates, according to McBride, who said the charges against them have “put a target on their back for them to get stabbed, jumped, murdered.”
“Every time somebody walks by their cell they get called a word that starts with a ‘P’ that’s more appropriate to (Jeffrey) Epstein and not appropriate to them,” McBride said.
Prosecutors in Britain have said the latest charges were brought forward after British authorities investigated claims made by an additional four victims.
The new claims are the latest in a long-running international legal battle involving the Tates which has spanned the US, Britain and Romania.
The brothers are being criminally prosecuted in Romania over allegations which include having sex with a minor, trafficking minors, running an organized crime operation and money laundering.
They’ve denied all the charges against them.
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