Meta wants Andrew Tate’s lawsuit dismissed or moved from Los Angeles to a location closer to Silicon Valley
Among a number of other personality traits that could use an improvement or two, it turns out that Andrew Tate needs some geography lessons.
Lessons That Mark Zuckerberg Was Ready To Learn Today By Filing In Federal Court To Teach The Alleged Rapist And The Widely Followed Ex-RapistBig brother A British contestant in the $50 million lawsuit Tate filed in August against the social media giant and others over its withdrawal from Instagram and Facebook, as well as other social media platforms, in 2022.
“The court should transfer this case to the Northern District of California,” Meta Kirkland & Ellis of Los Angeles and D.C. wrote Thursday to Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald of the Central District of California with an unseen smile. “To be clear, Meta has no contract with Plaintiffs, so Plaintiffs have no claims against Meta,” the lawyers continued, noting that Meta’s real headquarters are actually located in Ireland (long tax story short).
The multimillion-dollar demands that Tate and his brother Tristan insist are due to their expulsion from Facebook and Instagram, as well as TikTok (which they are also suing for $50 million), YouTube and then Twitter (which allowed the self-described blowhard Tate to return to Elon Musk’s regime), were “the culmination of a coordinated campaign to suppress, silence and destroy the reputations and livelihoods of two controversial but controversial men.” Law abiding.
Claiming international victims, these law-abiding men are effectively the subject of charges and investigations from the United States to Europe. Last month, the UK Crown Prosecution Service announced that allegations of rape and sexual violence made by four women against Andrew Tate were unlawful because “our legal test for prosecution had not been met, and that no further action should be taken.” UK prosecutors are still pursuing 10 charges, including rape and human trafficking, against Andrew Tate and 11 such charges against his brother earlier this year. They are waiting to delve deeper into these cases until the 2022 Romanian fratricidal rape and trafficking indictments are resolved.
“But for now, Meta is the defendant in this lawsuit,” added the Meta Kirkland & Ellis team on this side of the Atlantic today. “And although the plaintiffs’ complaint acknowledges that venue is appropriate as Meta is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County, apparently in the mistaken belief that Menlo Park is located here. Because of this Error, and because litigating this case in the Northern District of California would serve the interests of litigation, convenience, and efficiency, the court should transfer this case. Doing so will enable a speedy resolution of this dispute and will not constitute any prejudice to the plaintiffs, who reside in Romania and who appear to have chosen this forum on the basis of geographical error.
The fact that Tate’s Los Angeles attorneys at Brenneman APC who teamed up with Miami’s Equity Legal PLLC could find out where Menlo Park, a somewhat well-known meta, is located, would be quite laughable if this case and the Tates case weren’t so serious with broader implications in MAGA America today.
So, perhaps the real goal here is to sell to Meta that Golden State’s move will bring a little “hardship” to the Tets group in Eastern Europe, and will make things a little easier for a potential Meta witness, all of which belongs to the “exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts” anyway. Additionally, “Meta will move to dismiss this case at the appropriate time,” it announces in today’s nine-page filing.
Until then, Meta is seeking a hearing on January 12, 2026 on the change of jurisdiction.
This won’t be his only court date, as Tate will likely face off in the City of Angels.
Currently facing rape claims in Los Angeles Superior Court from ex-girlfriend Brianna Stern over an alleged assault on March 10 at a Beverly Hills hotel, Tate went after the former model in mid-August with countersuits and cries of a “smear campaign.” Loving to talk tough on his brother, Tate complained in his countersuit about losing “sponsorships, canceled business deals and irreparable damage.” “repairing his global reputation” due to Stern. Allegations.
Today, based primarily on First Amendment grounds, Tony Buzbee, who represents Stern, moved to dismiss Tate’s counterclaim. “Our focus is to win the case in California, which we intend to do,” the attorney told Deadline on Thursday. “We have moved today to dismiss the counterclaim because it is completely baseless.”
In the Meta case, Tates’ lawyers did not respond to Deadline’s request for comment on the tech company’s efforts to move and ultimately dismiss the case — perhaps they were busy purchasing some Rand McNally maps.