Three Florida brothers who exploited their family’s luxury real estate wealth and influence to drug and rape dozens of women have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison. in New York on Tuesday on sex trafficking charges.
Twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted in March on multiple counts after a five-week trial heard details of years of sexual assaults committed in Miami, New York and other high-end locations, including the Hamptons; Aspen, Colorado; and on a Caribbean cruise.
About a dozen of their victims took the stand Tuesday at the brothers’ sentencing hearing in Manhattan.
Several women testified Tuesday under pseudonyms and described how the brothers’ assaults destroyed their lives and their ability to trust others.
“I carry within me the quiet funeral of the person I could have become if this had not happened to me,” said one woman, who described being raped by Tal Alexander in August 2014, and said the attack changed the way she approached relationships.
“Every second that Tal raped me in that shower seemed like an eternity of terror.”
Another told the court she was raped at a Hamptons property after being drugged and taken to a bedroom.
“What seemed like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets,” she said.
The three brothers, dressed in beige prison suits, sat impassively, listening to the women speak. At their trial, their lawyers acknowledged that the brothers were “womanizers” and said they apologized for being “insensitive to the feelings of certain women at certain times”, while maintaining that all sex was consensual.
The brothers moved from Florida to New York in 2008. Oren and Tal Alexander were star representatives at real estate firm Douglas Elliman, before starting their own brokerage firm, Official, which made hundreds of millions of dollars selling condos to a rich and famous clientele.
Alon Alexander ran their family’s private security company and was also deeply involved in their opulent lifestyle of superyachts, private jets, exotic trips abroad and parties at waterfront mansions in Miami and elsewhere.
Their easy access to money and women, prosecutors said, allowed them to exploit their victims and lure them to parties or luxury trips, during which the Alexanders would drug and rape them, together or in the company of others.
“They acted to exert maximum dominance over their victims,” the lawyers said in their sentencing statement presented to the court before Tuesday’s hearing.
“The defendants felt entitled to take whatever they wanted from any woman or girl who agreed to get on a plane, go to a party, or sit at their table at a nightclub. The defendants made no effort to have consensual sex with the victims; they didn’t want that. Instead, they slipped drugs into their drinks and forced themselves on their victims.
“The drugs they used not only rendered the victim immobile, but also impacted her ability to remember every detail of her assault. The defendants’ tendency to mock and humiliate their victims served the defendants’ goal of dehumanizing these women as much as possible, and also shamed the victims into silence.”
Dozens of other women came forward after the allegations against the Alexanders were revealed in an explosive article published by real estate media outlet Real Deal in June 2024.
At least 70 women were raped or sexually assaulted by the men, prosecutors said in a previous court filing, describing them as “serial rapists.”
U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni said she believed the brothers should not be incarcerated in the same prison because they were a bad influence on each other. The brothers’ lawyers argued Tuesday that they should be able to serve their sentences together.
The Associated Press contributed report
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