Andrew and Tristan Tate, disgraced influencer brothers, were reported to have requested a stripper pole to be installed in their $3.9 million Doomsday bunker, according to its designer speaking to The U.S. Sun.
The luxurious bunker located in Romania reportedly covers an area of 2,400 square feet, featuring 10 bedrooms and a living room, making it larger than Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg’s apocalyptic hideout.
The Tate brothers have joined a growing list of prominent individuals opting to invest in underground fallout shelters, a trend embraced by billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg, the Kardashians, and Bill Gates.
However, the controversial podcasters made a special request for the builder, Ron Hubbard.
Hubbard, the CEO of Atlas Survival Shelters, told The U.S. Sun the brothers asked for stripper poles to be installed in their luxury bunker.
The shelter is designed to keep its occupants safe in case of nuclear fallout – but the sick brothers clearly had NSFW ambitions in mind when they asked for the feature.
However, nothing surprises Hubbard anymore.
“If you can put it in a house, you can put it in a bunker,” he shrugged.
Atlas Survival Shelter is the largest bomb shelter manufacturer in the world, designing world-class luxury bunkers for elite figures.
While the poles didn’t come as a shock to Hubbard, he was impressed by the size of shelter the brothers requested.
“Their bunker’s larger than Zuckerberg’s,” Hubbard revealed.
Hubbard said the Meta CEO’s bunker in Hawaii, which he helped to design, came out at around 2,000 square feet.
His report goes against the 2023 report from Wired that Zuckerberg built a 5,000-square-foot compound that cost $100 million.
Zuckerberg himself even argued the claim in December 2024.
“That’s just like a little shelter,” he told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on The Circuit
“Whatever you want to call it, hurricane shelter whatever.
“I think it got like, blown out of proportion as if like the whole ranch was some kind of like doomsday bunker, which is just not true.”
If you can put it in a house, you can put it in a bunker.”
Ron Hubbard
Hubbard said the same thing.
“In the world of bunkers, it was large, but it wasn’t as large as what people made it out to be,” Hubbard disclosed.
“Four or five bedrooms, living room, couple bathrooms.”
‘PERFECT GENTLEMEN’
While Hubbard was retained to design Zuckerberg’s bunker, he didn’t stay on to build it.
However, the survival expert created the Tate brothers’ bunker specifically for them.
He revealed that Tristan stocked his bunker, which cost nearly $4 million, with food and equipment for the end of days in a video on his YouTube channel, where he boasts over 605,000 subscribers.
Hubbard also opened up about working with the brothers in a podcast interview last year.
He shared that he had no idea who the brothers were when they called him up for the job.
“They’ve been very humble with me,” he confessed.
“I’ve seen them be nothing but perfect gentlemen with me.”
TATE ARREST TIMELINE
BY Henry Holloway
ANDREW and Tristan Tate were arrested in December 2022 and later charged with human trafficking, rape, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.
Here is a timeline of everything that’s happened since they were nicked:
DECEMBER 29, 2022: The brothers are detained in Romania for 30 days, along with two women, on suspicion of human trafficking, rape, and forming an organised crime group.
JANUARY 3, 2023: Romanian authorities seize Andrew’s luxury car collection.
JAN 8, 2023: A cryptic tweet is posted to Andrew Tate’s account which reads: “The Matrix has attacked me. But they misunderstand, you cannot kill an idea. Hard to Kill.”
JAN 10, 2023: Andrew appears in court in Bucharest to appeal his detention but the judge rules against him.
MARCH 31, 2023: The Bucharest Court of Appeal rules against a judge’s decision to extend Andrew’s incarceration for a fourth time; Andrew is placed on house arrest.
JUNE 20, 2023: The brothers are formally charged with human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
JULY 13, 2023: The Tates launch a $5million lawsuit against a Florida woman who they say falsely accused them of imprisoning her in Romania – which led to their arrest there on human trafficking charges.
AUGUST 4, 2023: Andrew wins an appeal to be released from house arrest in Romania as he awaits trial on charges of human trafficking.
DECEMBER 11, 2023: A judge denies the Tate brothers’ appeals to have £10million worth of assets returned to them.
JANUARY 8, 2024: The Bucharest Court of Appeal overturns the decision; the brothers are to have their assets returned to them.
MARCH 12, 2024: Both brothers are arrested in Romania over allegations of sexual aggression in the UK that date back to 2012 and 2015. They deny the allegations.
MARCH 22, 2024: The brothers lost their appeal to get back £10million worth of assets seized by cops.
APRIL 26, 2024: A Romanian court rules that Andrew and Tristan will face trail over ongoing probe into rape and human trafficking.
JULY 5, 2024: Courts rule that Andrew and Tristan can leave Romania – but must stay in the EU.
While Hubbard signed an NDA with Zuckerberg, he didn’t have to sign one with the Tate brothers.
The Tate brothers even bragged about the bunker on their podcast, three months before they were detained on house arrest.
“Underneath my house, I need another house,” Tristan said on the podcast.
“So I’m building a fallout bunker with 10 bedrooms, stripper pole, living room, all the important things you need to survive the apocalypse.
“That is what I’ve ordered and it’s now under construction.”
‘WHY NOT?’
Hubbard said the brothers wanted a bunker for the same reason most of his customers do – they’d rather be safe than sorry.
“When you’ve got all the money in the world… you’re running out of things to buy,” he said on the podcast.
“I think buying a luxury bomb shelter is the next big thing on their list.
“If you can afford it, why not?”
Romania police revealed Andrew’s wealth after they seized £10million worth of assets, which is about $12,603,650, in a raid of his home in August of last year.
Andrew, 38, is a former kickboxer who has over 10 million followers on social media and is known for making controversial posts and comments online.
He and Tristan, 36, were first arrested in 2022 and charged with human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women.
The brothers both still face the serious allegations of rape as well as trafficking charges.
As cops continue to investigate the duo, Andrew was recently released from house arrest after being locked up for the past five months.
Just days ago, an American woman filed a countersuit against the Tate brothers in the first US case against the influencers.
She’s suing Andrew and Tristan for allegedly luring her to Romania for human trafficking and then suing her for defamation after she cooperated with cops in 2023
“Jane Doe did the right thing by telling the truth of what she saw and experienced while she was in Romania to Romanian authorities,” Jane Doe’s lawyer, Dani Pinter, said in a statement, according to Fox News Digital.
“And for that, Andrew and Tristan Tate have worked to ruin her life by suing her and her parents – an abuse of the legal system and blatant witness intimidation.”
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
