The brothers operated within the glitz and glamour of the Hamptons and South Seaside. Two had been high-end actual property brokers dubbed “The A Workforce.” The third went to legislation college and ran their household’s non-public safety agency, which caters to heads of state and the wealthy and well-known.
They frequented nightclubs, cruised on yachts and flew on non-public jets. One lived alongside celebrities and company titans on Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row. The others had multimillion-dollar waterfront mansions in Miami.
However behind their posh, peripatetic facade, prosecutors say, Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — identified collectively because the Alexander Brothers — had been predators who sexually assaulted, trafficked and raped dozens of ladies from 2008 to 2021, usually after incapacitating them with medicine and typically recording their crimes on video.
The brothers met victims at nightclubs, events and on courting apps, and recruited others for journeys to ritzy locales, paying for his or her flights and lodging at high-end motels or luxe trip leases earlier than drugging and raping them, prosecutors stated. In all, dozens of ladies have accused them of wrongdoing.
Now, the brothers — Tal, 39, and twins Alon and Oren, 38 — face a reckoning that prosecutors say was greater than a decade within the making: a sex-trafficking trial that would put them in jail for the remainder of their lives.
Opening statements are slated for Tuesday within the brothers’ trial in federal court docket in Manhattan, after they had been delayed a day due to heavy snowfall over the weekend in New York.
Oren and Tal Alexander, the true property sellers who specialised in high-end properties in Miami, New York and Los Angeles, have pleaded not responsible, together with their brother Alon, who graduated from New York Regulation Faculty earlier than taking his place with the safety agency.
All three have been held with out bail since their December 2024 arrests. They had been indicted months after a number of ladies filed lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct.
A spokesperson for the Alexander Brothers stated they “categorically deny that anybody was drugged, assaulted, or coerced, and the federal government has introduced no bodily proof, medical information, contemporaneous complaints, or goal proof to determine these claims.”
“This case highlights a broader concern about how the federal sex-trafficking statute is being utilized,” stated the spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer. “Congress enacted that legislation to handle pressure, coercion, and exploitation; to not retroactively criminalize consensual grownup relationships by way of inference or narrative.”
“Because the protection has persistently stated, allegations usually are not proof,” Engelmayer added.
The brothers’ attorneys have promised to point out the jury of six males and 6 ladies that prosecutors have taken harmless romantic and sexual encounters and transformed them into legal exercise by way of intelligent lawyering.
Oren Alexander’s legal professional, Marc Agnifilo, has stated the protection plans to show that witnesses have lied to the federal government and that their testimony can’t be trusted.
Choose Valerie E. Caproni, who will preside over the trial, has rejected protection requests to toss out the costs or ship the case to state court docket. The Alexanders’ attorneys have stated the allegations in opposition to them resemble “date rape” crimes extra generally prosecuted in state courts, however Caproni disagreed.
“That badly misrepresents the character of the costs,” the decide wrote.
Agnifilo has stated the jury will hear proof of group intercourse, threesomes and promiscuity. Throughout jury choice final week, potential jurors had been requested questions associated to sexual exercise and intercourse crimes.
“The case is about intercourse and sexuality,” stated Agnifilo, who represented Sean “Diddy” Combs final 12 months because the hip-hop mogul was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy fees however convicted on lesser prostitution-related counts.
In court docket papers, the Alexander Brothers’ attorneys wrote that among the many accusers they anticipate to testify at trial, they’d positioned proof “that undermines practically each side of the alleged victims’ narratives.”
Prosecutors have stated their proof will present that the brothers “have acted with obvious impunity — forcibly raping ladies each time they needed to take action.”
—Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister, Related Press
