The brothers operated in the glitz and glamour of the Hamptons and South Beach. Two were high-end real estate brokers dubbed "The A Team." The third went to law school and ran their family's private security firm, which caters to heads of state and the rich and famous. They frequented nightclubs, cruised on yachts, and flew on private jets. One lived alongside celebrities and corporate titans on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row. The others had multimillion-dollar waterfront mansions in Miami. But behind their posh facade, prosecutors say, Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander were predators who sexually assaulted, trafficked, and raped dozens of women from 2008 to 2021, often after incapacitating them with drugs and sometimes recording their crimes on video.
The brothers met victims at nightclubs, parties, and on dating apps, and recruited others for trips to ritzy locales, paying for their flights and lodging at high-end hotels or luxe vacation rentals before drugging and raping them, prosecutors said. In all, dozens of women have accused them of wrongdoing, reports the AP. Now, the brothers—Tal, 39, and twins Alon and Oren, 38—face a reckoning that prosecutors say was more than a decade in the making: a sex-trafficking trial that could put them in prison for the rest of their lives. Opening statements are slated for Tuesday in the brothers' trial in federal court in Manhattan, after they were delayed a day because of heavy snowfall over the weekend in New York.
Oren and Tal Alexander, the real estate dealers, have pleaded not guilty, along with their brother Alon. All three have been held without bail since their December 2024 arrests. They were indicted months after several women filed lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct. A rep for the brothers said they "categorically deny that anyone was drugged, assaulted, or coerced, and the government has presented no physical evidence ... or objective proof to establish those claims."
The brothers' attorneys have promised to show the jury of six men and six women that prosecutors have taken innocent romantic and sexual encounters and converted them into criminal activity through clever lawyering. Oren Alexander's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, has said the defense plans to prove that witnesses have lied to the government and that their testimony can't be trusted. Judge Valerie Caproni, who will preside over the trial, has rejected defense requests to toss out the charges or send the case to state court. The Alexanders' lawyers have said the allegations against them resemble "date rape" crimes more commonly prosecuted in state courts, but Caproni disagreed. "That badly misrepresents the nature of the charges," the judge wrote.
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