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Alexander Brothers Sentenced to 30 Years Each for Sex Trafficking
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In Short: The Alexander brothers, Oren, Alon, and Tal, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for their role in a decade-long sex trafficking scheme.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni handed down the sentences on Tuesday, following a federal trial in New York City where the brothers were found guilty on all counts.
The Alexander brothers, who were once prominent real estate brokers, were accused of using their wealth and social status to lure women to parties and luxury homes, where they sexually assaulted them.
Prosecutors argued that the brothers' pattern of abusive behavior began in high school and continued into adulthood, with crimes starting in 2008.
During the five-week trial, 11 women testified about being lured, drugged, and sexually assaulted by the brothers over a period of years.
Judge Caproni also ordered the brothers to pay a combined $4.75 million in fines and restitution to some of their victims.
The brothers were found guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, among other charges.
One victim, using the pseudonym Maya Miller, testified that Tal Alexander raped her in a shower during a 2014 visit to a Hamptons property.
Another victim, identified as Isa Brooks, said she lost the ability to trust herself after being raped by Tal and Alon Alexander when she was 16.
The defense argued that the prosecutors had little evidence to prove that the brothers had drugged anyone due to the lack of toxicology reports and medical records.
Despite the defense's arguments, Judge Caproni called the brothers' conduct 'monstrous' and said their assertion that they had been rehabilitated 'rings hollow.'
The brothers are expected to appeal their convictions, but for now, they face a minimum of 30 years in prison each.
What this adds
The brothers were also ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release after their prison terms.
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.
- 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.
- "It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was," one woman, who used a pseudonym, told the court, the AP reported.
What's still developing
- 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.
- In 2022, they founded their own New York-based firm called Official.
- Several of the women gave testimony on Tuesday using pseudonyms, and told of how the assaults by the brothers had destroyed their lives and their ability to trust other people.
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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.
- In the Florida sex trafficking charges against the brothers, a state judge granted bail to Oren and Alon, pending the ruling at the federal level.
- Side has also sued Tal, Oren and Official Partners for allegedly defaulting on a $4.6 million loan extended to the brothers in 2022, a case that’s been complicated by their incarceration.
- 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?"
- Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa said the brothers deserved the maximum punishment for their crimes, saying facts "paint a truly devastating picture".
- 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.
- While the three siblings’ New York federal case concerned sex-trafficking conspiracy, Florida prosecutors are aiming to convict 39-year-old twins Oren and Alon on sexual-assault and battery charges.