Abstract. We prove some probabilistic estimates for tensor products of random vectors, generalizing results that were obtained by Gordon, Litvak, Schütt, and Werner [Ann. Probab., 30(4): 2002], and Prochno and Riemer [Houst. J. Math., 39(4): [1301][1302][1303][1304][1305][1306][1307][1308][1309][1310][1311] 2013]. As an application we obtain embeddings of certain matrix spaces into L 1 .