Bangladesh, Aug. 26 -- Controversial social media personalities Andrew and Tristan Tate rented multimillion-dollar supercars and borrowed other luxury items to cultivate an image of extraordinary wealth online, their lawyers have told a US court.

The claims were made in filings opposing efforts to extradite the brothers from the United States to the United Kingdom, where they face charges including rape, assault and facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, The Guardian reports. The brothers deny wrongdoing.

Their lawyers argued that the lavish lifestyle displayed across the brothers' social-media accounts should not be taken at face value because exaggerating their wealth was central to the business model behind their online p...