The Alexander brothers always relished taking risks and weren’t shy about letting the world know it.
When their father and the other developers of a lavish Miami estate had trouble selling it for $52 million in 2012, brokers, Oren and Tal Alexander didn’t do the obvious and lower the price. That was for losers. They put it up – to $60 million.
‘We got a lot of attention,’ Oren boasted to the Wall Street Journal. ‘When you list something for a record price like that, you create the hype.’
Although the property on the private island of Indian Creek eventually went for $47 million, it did at least sell and it put the Alexanders on the map for setting a record in the city’s real estate market.
Just two months later, the Journal rewarded Oren – then just 25 – with a glowing profile as a superstar broker, the leader of a pack of ’20-something power brokers’ who were ‘fueling the rise of well-connected young agents.’
‘Quite frankly, I’m addicted to my job – the hours, the lifestyle. I love that I get to hang out with the wealthiest people in the world and it’s considered work,’ Oren said with his typical uber self-assurance.
Now, 14 years later, Tal, 39 and Oren, 38 – along with Oren’s twin Alon who ran the family security business – will ‘get to hang out’ with an altogether less glamorous crowd in federal prison for horrendous offenses.
On Monday, they were found guilty on all the charges they faced after 21 hours of deliberation by a federal jury in Manhattan. They each now face a minimum of 15 years and up to life in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and other sex offenses.
The Alexander brothers always relished taking risks and weren’t shy about letting the world know it
Now, 14 years later, Tal, 39 and Oren,38 – along with Oren’s twin Alon who ran the family security business – will ‘get to hang out’ with an altogether less glamorous crowd in federal prison for horrendous offences
The 12 count indictment – reduced to ten – saw them charged with the sex trafficking, rape and sexual assault of drugged victims, in a series of crimes committed over more than 20 years.
The accusations came from women who were as young as 13 when they say they fell prey to the Alexanders.
The men – who were fawned on for years by the real estate and business media (no doubt fueling their attractiveness to some women) – also face more than two dozen civil lawsuits from accusers.
Monday’s verdicts complete the spectacular downfall for the trio – Oren and Tal were once the so-called ‘A Team,’ celebrity brokers to clients including Ivanka Trump, Lindsay Lohan, Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
The trial revealed that the real risks that the Alexanders took weren’t the outrageous prices they demanded for their clients’ multi-million-dollar properties, but their reliance on the silence of the many women they attacked.
The case had echoes of two notorious multiple rape cases. The playboy trio’s habitual drugging of their victims evoked the allegations against fallen TV star Bill Cosby brought by more than 60 women, many of whom accused him of spiking their drinks, causing them to lose consciousness, then later wake convinced they’d been abused.
Cosby has denied wrongdoing. His only criminal conviction which came in 2018 following his trial on charges of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand was overturned in 2021.
However, the Alexanders probably have more in common with disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in using their wealth and power to entice women before raping them – and in later relying on that power, and explicit threats, to intimidate them into remaining silent.
Like Weinstein, who primarily preyed on actresses desperate to make it in the movie industry, jurors in New York’s federal courthouse heard that the Alexanders saw sex as somehow their due.
And as with Weinstein, whose attorneys pushed the idea that he was simply indulging in the time-honored Tinseltown tradition of the ‘casting couch,’ the Alexanders’ lawyers insisted that their clients had engaged in entirely consensual, if transactional, relationships.
The women – 11 of whom gave evidence at trial although prosecutors say 60 women have made accusations – chose to attend the Alexanders’ lavish trips and parties willingly, while attorneys for the siblings insisted that there was no evidence they were drugged without their knowledge.
They might not approve of the siblings’ morals and their cynical pursuit of sex, jurors were told, but that didn’t make any of it illegal. The jury – six men and six women – begged to differ.
A photo released by the court shows the three brothers partying on a boat with one alleged victim redacted
The brothers were luxury real estate tycoons. Tal, left, and Oren at a property in Miami Beach
Tal Alexander, 39, and twins Oren and Alon, 38,have been found guilty on all charges
Over a five-week trial in New York, they heard how the obscenely arrogant and entitled brothers offered access to their glitzy, jet-set lifestyle and famous friends – paying for the young women they found in nightclubs and online dating sites to come to parties in New York, Miami and The Hamptons.
For them, and their sleazy friends, who behaved like a hungry wolf pack as they leered over the photos of the girls that were shared online, there was a clear quid pro quo for their generosity in paying for their flights and hotels – even if the women didn’t see it.
Indulging in behavior that even Weinstein never came close to, they would refer to their victims as ‘b**ches’ or ‘cheap hookers’ and joke about gang-raping them – an ordeal they lightly referred to as ‘running train.’
Beyond any feelings of shame, the Alexanders would rarely waste an opportunity to film each other raping the women so that too could be smirkingly shared later.
The brothers were still occasionally smirking when they went to trial but inevitably their bravado failed them as the court was privy to weeks of harrowing testimony, including videos, from tearful accusers whose jaw-dropping accounts were ultimately just too similar to be dismissed – as defense lawyers had urged – as fiction.
Some of the victims had been underage at the time. One of them said she was filmed having sex with Oren in 2009 when she was a 17-year-old aspiring model.
Prosecutors said the twins contributed to a blog titled ‘Vent on B**ches’ that discussed drugging women and the legal issues of what constituted rape. When passages from the blog were displayed in court, even their parents, Shlomi and Orly, couldn’t look at them.
Another victim, using the pseudonym Isa Brooks, testified that she felt like she was being ‘mauled by wild animals’ during a gang rape by Tal, Alon and two other men.
Witnesses described being invited to what they’d been assured would be big parties only to find that it was a small mainly male gathering where the atmosphere suddenly took on a somewhat threatening air as their hosts pushed cocktails on their female guests.
Several women testified that the drinks left them feeling ‘paralyzed’ or waking up later unable to remember what had happened to them although they’d clearly been sexually abused.
Those girls and women who were sufficiently conscious to scream at the accused to stop say they were ignored. In a particularly stomach-churning detail, the brothers would frequently come and watch each other raping their victims or record it on video.
‘There were no words needed or directions said,’ recalled a victim. ‘It was very routine for them.’
Before being accused of drugging and raping dozens of women, Oren (left), Tal (second left) and Alon (right) lived a lavish life of private jets and luxury homes in New York and Miami
In this courtroom sketch, assistant US Attorney Madison Smyser gestures to Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander and Tal Alexander
The brothers’ parents Shlomy and Orly also stood by their boys. Each brother now faces up to life in prison
Helping explain why the accusations against the siblings took so long to surface, many victims say they were terrified that the intimidating Alexanders might hurt or even kill them if they went to the police.
It will be for experts to decide whether the narcissistic brothers are sociopaths but they certainly sound like it.
A 26-year-old model who accused Oren of raping her in his Miami home nine years ago, recalled him telling her in the middle of her ordeal: ‘Stop crying, be quiet, you’re ruining it.’
In his closing argument at the trial, assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Jones said the brothers ‘used a consistent playbook to lure, isolate and rape their victims,’ adding: ‘Not only did they commit these crimes without remorse, they did it with callousness, with a perverse sense of pride.’
The Alexanders had something else in common with Weinstein. His predatory behavior had been an open secret in Hollywood for years and so had theirs inside the property world.
In fact, the Alexanders were already notorious when they were still at high school in Miami, sharing sex videos they’d filmed involving girls at their school. (At least two of their accusers were underage when they said the brothers sexually abused them).
‘At the end of the day, these kids, ever since I can remember, they’ve been a**holes,’ a childhood friend told the Miami Herald in 2024. ‘I’ve seen the videos.’
Oren said in his school yearbook that his favorite memory from his time at Michael Krop Senior High School was ‘riding my first choo-choo train’ – those in the know would have realized he was referring to the ‘running train’ gang rapes they carried out.
However, in the same state where Jeffrey Epstein was notoriously handed the lightest of sentences for child sex offenses, the Alexanders were able to escape prosecution.
Oren and Tal went into real estate and worked together at the large brokerage Douglas Elliman.
The Alexanders soon established themselves as the masters of the highly lucrative sector of buying and selling wildly expensive properties in the world of the mega-wealthy. Their secret to success, they bragged, was that they enjoyed the same private jet, country-hopping lifestyle as the super-rich.
Photos that they snapped on the private jets and super yachts of their billionaire friends and then posted on Instagram and Facebook must have attracted potential clients just as they did young women.
‘You have to be in Saint-Tropez in July, Aspen in the winter, Hong Kong for Art Basel, Cannes for the film festival, Monaco for the Grand Prix,’ Tal told an interviewer.
‘There’s not a person or a client we can’t get to,’ said Oren. ‘While my nights are late, and some may call me a party boy, it’s all about closing deals.’
Alon and Oren in 2015 at the height of their real estate success. ‘There’s not a person or a client we can’t get to,’ Oren once boasted. ‘While my nights are late, and some may call me a party boy, it’s all about closing deals.
Alon Alexander was supported throughout the five week trial by his model wife Shani Zigron
Others in their line of business sniped that the Alexanders’ success was really because the middle-aged male billionaires they targeted were swept away by the brothers’ hard-partying and the posse of glamorous young women that surrounded them.
They were accused – even by some of their high-profile clients – of using overly aggressive and ruthless business tactics such as stealing deals out from under rivals.
In 2015, Oren and Alon celebrated their 28th birthday with a party at a $50 million mansion in Manhattan’s Upper East Side at which guests were invited to drip hot wax on to the body of a half-naked woman lying on a table. Burlesque dancers wearing dog collars and fishnet tights performed risqué acrobatics.
Three years later, they helped Kanye West find a $14 million Miami flat he bought for his then wife, Kim Kardashian.
The following year, the brothers referred the Wests’ new Miami neighbor, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, to a mansion near Buckingham Palace which he bought for £95 million ($127million). It was the priciest home sold in London for nearly a decade.
A few days later, the Alexanders completed the sale of a Manhattan penthouse to Griffin for an eye-watering $238 million – making it the most expensive residence in the US.
And yet, behind all the headlines celebrating their savvy, real estate business insiders heard plenty of stories about the brothers’ dark side.
A woman who works in the New York luxury property world, told the Daily Mail that everyone knew they were ‘as creepy as f**k.’
She said: ‘We all heard rumors, but no one could prove anything. No one would talk because they have so much money, they would threaten to sue anyone who went against them in business or personally.’
The insider went on: ‘Women realtors hated doing business with them, there was an open secret with the experienced agents that you didn’t go anywhere with them, didn’t travel with them, didn’t be alone with them.
‘That’s why the women around them kept getting younger, because they are young and they were flying private and getting to live a lifestyle they aspired to.’
Oren Alexander was supported by his wife, Kamila Hansen, who attended court a handful of times
Arielle Alexander, pictured in December 2023 with then husband Tal, filed for divorce in January 2025
Indeed, it was revealed last week that at least one of the women who crossed paths with them at work is now suing Oren for sexual assault and sex trafficking.
Tracy Tutor, an LA real estate broker who stars in the Bravo reality TV series Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, accuses him of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2014. He denies the claim.
She says she was flown to New York by Douglas Elliman for an industry event and had dinner with Oren and a few other brokers at the firm.
Tutor, who brought a friend, claims that during the dinner she was handed a drink and subsequently blacked out.
When her friend realized she’d disappeared, he went looking for her and discovered her acting ‘out of her mind’ in a men’s room stall with Oren, who was kissing and groping her.
Tutor recalls waking up naked the following morning in someone else’s hotel room. Her tampon had been removed and she was surrounded by a pool of blood, she said.
She says her missing purse was later returned to her by Oren’s assistant, who – after handing it over – asked: ‘Are we good?’
Attorneys for the Alexanders long ago gave up trying to paint their clients as whiter than white, instead just concentrating on arguing they weren’t criminals.
One of their lawyers reminded jurors they were there to decide a criminal case, not judge an ‘a**hole contest.’ If it were the latter, she said, ‘this would be easy – case closed’.
Well, the case is now closed – providing final and hideous confirmation that ‘a**holes’ doesn’t begin to describe them.
