Luxury real estate agents Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother used their wealth and prestige to drug and rape dozens of women they lured into their orbit for more than a decade, federal prosecutors charged Wednesday.
The two luxury real estate giants — who in 2019 helped broker the sale of a record-breaking $240 million condo overlooking Central Park — worked with Oren’s twin Alon to leverage “the promise of luxury experiences, travel and accommodations for lured and lured women to countries. where they were then forcibly raped or sexually assaulted”, claim the prosecutors.
“Often, the Alexander brothers drugged their victims before attacking them, preventing them from fighting or fleeing,” the indictment said. Many of the sexual assaults involved “multiple men,” court documents state.
“This conduct, as alleged, was despicable,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said at a press conference in Manhattan announcing the charges Wednesday afternoon.
The brothers staged some of the sexual assaults in advance by setting up meetings on dating apps and social media, and met other victims in random encounters at nightclubs and parties, the feds said.
Investigators believe many of the women were drugged with the painkiller GHB, which is known as a “date-rape” drug, court documents state.
The brothers were arrested in and around Miami Beach on Wednesday morning and were expected to make initial court appearances in Florida. The trio was charged by the feds with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, cause or coercion. The twins face separate state charges in Florida stemming from three other alleged assaults, local officials say.
The charges come after a series of civil lawsuits accusing Oren and Alon Alexander, 37, of indecent assaults, including an allegation that they gang-raped a woman inside a Hamptons mansion called the Playboy Mansion of the East Coast. Prosecutors said they interviewed more than a dozen women who reported being raped by one of the brothers between 2005 and 2021.
The brothers’ sordid history of sexual violence dates back two decades to their high school days in Miami, where they boasted of several “gang rapes,” according to the federal court filing that argued the trio should be held without bail.
“Each of the victims the government has interviewed from this period reported hearing the individuals involved — including Tal Alexander — talk about school attacks, bragging about ‘training’ their victims and saying they wanted to ‘do it again’. “, the prosecutors wrote.
Oren even bragged about the rapes in his high school yearbook, writing that his most memorable moment was “getting fed up with my first ‘choo choo’ train,” according to the Federation filing.
Court documents also outline the specifics of two alleged gruesome sexual assaults.
A victim reported being raped by Tal Alexander and other men in 2021 after being given a glass of wine at a Hamptons home and feeling “not good.” The woman, referred to in court documents as Victim-1, told investigators she remembers Tal holding her down while another man entered the room and later being in a separate room where a video camera was set up.
Another woman, Victim-2, reported being raped by Oren in 2016 after she “started feeling weird and struggled to walk” after Oren gave her a cocktail. Alon Alexander then took the woman to a bedroom to lie down, she recalled. She woke up to find Oren in the room. Oren then pulled down her bathing suit and raped her while she was “physically impaired and unable to move,” court documents state.
Oren and Tal Alexander, 38, co-founded luxury real estate firm Official, which offers prime listings in places like New York City, the Hamptons, Miami and Los Angeles, in 2022 after rising through the ranks of the brokerage giant. Douglas Elliman.
Tal rents an apartment inside a skyscraper in the famous area of Midtown, “Billionaire’s Row”, while Oren and Alon live in “high value” properties in Miami Beach with “direct access to the water” and “private docks” , the federations wrote in a court filing.
Alon has been an executive at Kent Security, a successful private security firm founded by the parents of brothers Orly and Shlomy Alexander, but his name is not currently listed on the company’s website.
Oren’s attorney, Susan R. Necheles, told The Post on Wednesday that her client is “innocent.”
“The evidence will show that neither he nor his brothers ever committed a crime,” Necheles said.
Alon’s attorney, Isabelle A. Kirshner, and Tal’s attorney, Deanna Paul, declined to comment on the allegations.
The three brothers will eventually appear in federal court in Manhattan, where their case has been assigned to District Judge Valerie Caproni. Each faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted.
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