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Alexander Brothers Each Sentenced to 30 Years for Sex Trafficking

Updated 10:12 PM ET · 9:06 PM ETConfirmed

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In Short: The Alexander brothers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of a decade-long sex trafficking scheme.

The Alexander brothers, Oren, Alon, and Tal, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of a decade-long sex trafficking scheme in a federal trial in New York City. ABC News and People reported that the brothers were found guilty on all counts.

According to ABC News and The Times of Israel (Israel), the brothers were accused of using their wealth and social status to lure women to parties and luxury homes, where they sexually assaulted them. The Times of Israel reported that the brothers moved from Florida to New York in 2008.

The BBC (United Kingdom) and SMH.com.au (Australia) reported that the brothers were found guilty in March of 10 counts, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force. The trial included testimony from 11 women who described being lured, drugged, and sexually assaulted over a period of years.

The BBC (United Kingdom) reported that Judge Valerie Caproni sentenced each brother to 30 years in prison, while also imposing 20 years for additional crimes to be served concurrently. The judge also ordered each brother to 10 years of supervised release.

According to Usmagazine, the defense argued that the prosecutors had little evidence to prove that the brothers had drugged anyone due to the lack of toxicology reports, medical reports, and contemporaneous police reports. However, the prosecution maintained that the brothers followed a consistent 'playbook,' using their wealth and influence to lure women to their properties, drug, and assault them.

The Guardian and NBC News reported that several of the women gave testimony on Tuesday using pseudonyms, describing how the assaults by the brothers had destroyed their lives and their ability to trust other people. Maya Miller testified that Tal Alexander raped her in a shower during a 2014 visit to a Hamptons property.

The New York Times reported that the brothers were described as serial rapists who violated women and girls for years. Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa argued for a life sentence, saying the facts 'paint a truly devastating picture.'

The Alexander brothers were also ordered to pay combined fines and restitution. Oren Alexander was ordered to pay an additional $50,000, while Tal Alexander was ordered to pay $350,000, and Oren and Alon Alexander were each ordered to pay $300,000.

The defense maintained that the brothers should serve lighter sentences of 15 years, the minimum for sex trafficking, while maintaining their innocence. However, Judge Caproni called their conduct 'monstrous' and said their assertion that they had been rehabilitated 'rings hollow.'

The brothers are expected to appeal their convictions. The case has also complicated a $4.6 million loan default case against Tal, Oren, and Official Partners, a firm they founded in 2022.

Despite the defense's claims, the prosecution argued that the brothers' pattern of abusive behavior began in high school and continued into adulthood, with crimes starting in 2008.

The accounts from the various publications agree that the Alexander brothers were sentenced to 30 years in prison each for their role in a decade-long sex trafficking scheme, with additional penalties including fines and supervised release.

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Background

What's confirmed

• The Alexander brothers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, after being found guilty on all counts in their federal sex trafficking trial in New York City.
• The former real estate titans, Oren and Alon Alexander, 39-year-old twins, along with their brother, Tal Alexander, 40, were accused by prosecutors of a "decade-long sex trafficking and sexual abuse scheme." This is a developing story.
• Tal Alexander, 40, and twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, were found guilty in March of using their wealth and social status to lure women to parties and luxury homes, where they sexually assaulted them.
• Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa addresses the court and argues for a life sentence during the sentencing of real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon During the five-week trial, 11 women - several said they were minors at the time of the assaults - testified that the brothers gave them gifts and flew them places including Aspen and the Bahamas where they fed them drugs before raping them.
• "I am not here to discount what they have said," Oren Alexander said of the accusers who addressed the court.
• Oren and Tal Alexander were once nicknamed real estate’s "A Team" for their ultra high-end sales and celebrity clientele. After smashing sales records at industry powerhouse Douglas Elliman, the brothers started their own firm. Alon Alexander ran their family’s private security company. Twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, and their brother Tal Alexander, 40, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni after 11 accusers addressed the court. "Your conduct was monstrous," the judge told the men as she announced the sentences, saying their insistence that they have been rehabilitated since getting married and having children "rings hollow."
• FILE - This photo provided by the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department shows Alon Alexander, left, and Oren Alexander, both of whom have been charged with sex trafficking.
• Caproni announced the punishment for Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander Brothers — after 11 accusers spoke in court.
• Tal, Oren and Alon will be in their late 60s when moved to supervised release, judge rules The Alexander brothers were sentenced to 30 years in prison each, capping off the federal sex trafficking case set off by civil lawsuits first reported by The Real Deal nearly two years ago.
• According to WTVJ, Oren and Alon Alexander, 39-year-old twins, and their brother, Tal Alexander, 40, are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.
• A jury found them guilty of multiple federal sex offenses, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, after hearing testimony from 11 women who said they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers.
• "Today's sentence makes clear that this craven, sinister conduct is extraordinarily serious and will be met with serious punishment."

What's still developing

• Maya Miller told the court that after Tal Alexander raped her in 2014, she lost all sense of safety.
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• “I think one of the striking parts about this story is that these were allegations against three brothers. This wasn’t just one powerful man,” executive producer Emma Schwartz exclusively told Us.
• The three brothers allegedly engaged in a scheme to systematically drug and rape dozens of women dating back to 2010.
• "How can someone who never acknowledged the wrongs they did be rehabilitated?"
• One by one, they spoke of the psychological trauma they endured after the Alexander brothers raped them, and their desire for the shame they had felt to instead fall on the defendants.
• Multiple women spoke during the brothers’ sentencing hearing.
• “I’m not going to say that you are monsters, but your conduct was monstrous,” Caproni told the brothers, according to Los Angeles, who was inside the courtroom.
• Oren Alexander, who was also convicted of sexually exploiting a minor by distributing homemade child sex abuse material of a 17-year-old girl in 2009, was ordered to pay an additional $50,000 immediately.
• "The defendants preyed on women and young girls, using drugs and violence to incapacitate them so they could rape them. The defendants did this for years --inflicting unspeakable harm on so many young women. And, for years, the defendants used their careers and social status to conceal the danger they posed," U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said in a statement.
• A spokesperson for the Alexander family called the verdict "deeply disappointing."
• “What happened to me was not a misunderstanding,” said a woman using the pseudonym Maya Miller who spoke at the sentencing in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.

Sources

• ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videoslink
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• CBS Newslink
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• Inman Real Estate Newslink
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• CBS New York — video link