- The Alexander brothers have been hit with federal sex trafficking charges.
- Oren and Tal Alexander are top real estate agents. Police also arrested a third brother.
- The brothers earlier denied the accusations through an attorney.
The Alexander brothers were arrested on Wednesday on federal charges of sex trafficking. Prosecutors accused the siblings of operating a “long-running sex trafficking scheme,” according to an unsealed indictment.
The New York prosecutors said in the indictment that Tal and Oren — who are among the nation’s top luxury real estate agents — and their brother, Alon, collaborated for more than a decade with others both “known and unknown” to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims.”
The indictment says the brothers used their wealth and prominent positions “to create opportunities to rape and sexually assault women” in Manhattan and Miami in a scheme that began in 2010 and lasted more than 10 years.
At times, prosecutors say the brothers planned out the sexual assaults in advance “using the promise of luxury experiences, travel, and accommodations to lure and entice women to locations where they were forcibly raped or sexually assaulted, sometimes by multiple men, including one or more of the Alexander brothers.”
Other times, the Alexander brothers chose their victims by chance, prosecutors say.
The real estate duo, in particular, the indictment says, “used their prominent positions in the industry to induce other women to attend events and parties, and to meet other women at those events and parties, whom one or more of the defendants later sexually assaulted.”
Prosecutors said the Alexander brothers worked together and with other men to arrange events and both domestic and international trips that they used as “bait” to “recruit, entice, harbor, transport, and maintain multiple women.”
Ahead of events and trips, the Alexander brothers would secure drugs, including hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, and GHB, which they agreed to provide women, the indictment says.
On multiple occasions, they and others would “surreptitiously” drug women’s drinks.”
“At times, the defendants physically restrained and held down their victims during the rapes and sexual assaults and ignored screams and explicit requests to stop,” the indictment says.
The brothers’ arrest follows sexual assault allegations by multiple women.
Deanna Paul, a New York attorney for Tal, confirmed to Business Insider that police arrested the brothers in Miami on Wednesday morning but declined to comment further.
The brothers have “strongly” denied any wrongdoing, James Cinque, their New York-based attorney, told Business Insider in September.
“We have asked them not to comment while these matters work their way through the legal system,” Cinque said, “but are comfortable that they will ultimately be vindicated.”
The FBI began investigating the Alexander brothers after The Real Deal first reported in June that two women had filed civil lawsuits against Oren and Alon earlier this year.
The women, Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel, said the brothers took turns raping them in two separate incidents in 2010 and 2012, respectively. About 10 days after The Real Deal’s article was published, another woman, Angelica Parker, filed a lawsuit accusing Alon and Tal of raping her in their New York City apartment in 2012 while Oren watched. In July, a fourth woman, the actor and comedian Renée Willett, filed a lawsuit against Oren, accusing him of drugging and raping her, also in his SoHo apartment in 2015.
“We are glad to hear that there will finally be some measure of accountability for the Alexander brothers and justice for their many victims,” David E. Gottlieb, a partner at Wigdor, the law firm representing Parker, said in a statement to BI. “We applaud all the survivors who have had the strength and courage to speak up about their unimaginable experiences after years of pain and suffering.”
Since June, more than a dozen women have said they were raped or assaulted by the three brothers, sometimes in tandem. Business Insider spoke to four women who described being assaulted or feeling coerced into sexual encounters, including one who said Tal, now 38, raped her in Las Vegas in 2017.
Business Insider’s investigation found that it was an open secret in wealthy social circles for years that the Alexander twins, 37, and their older brother Tal, mistreated women.
Oren and Tal started their real estate careers at Douglas Elliman before launching their own brokerage, Official, in 2022. Alon works for the family’s security company in Florida.
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