The Alexander brothers are headed to trial.
Former star brokers Oren and Tal, and their brother Alon have spent the final yr in jail, after they have been compelled to commerce their waterfront mansions and an condominium on New York’s Billionaires’ Row for Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart.
Since being arrested in Miami early one December 2024 morning, the brothers have been in limbo, awaiting a verdict on the federal costs that took form after years of rumors and whispered allegations gave solution to a crush of lawsuits and investigations.
However the months of uncertainty are nearing an finish: their long-anticipated trial earlier than a decide and jury within the Southern District of New York is slated to start on Jan. 5.
The stakes are excessive. The trial will ship solutions for the brothers, who’re dealing with a minimal of 15 years in jail, and their household. However it is usually vastly important for ladies who say they’ve been drugged, sexually assaulted or raped by one among extra of the brothers, some whereas they have been minors. Past the assaults, some girls allege the brothers have for many years used their wealth, intensive networks and performed the ladies in opposition to one another to suppress the allegations.
Courtroom filings in current months have raised the curtain on the Alexanders’ all-out protection technique, the arguments they’ll be elevating in court docket and the way the decide is getting ready to listen to the case.
All three brothers have denied the allegations.
The allegations
Prosecutors have expanded the intercourse trafficking case in opposition to the three brothers because the indictment was first unsealed a yr in the past. The newest indictment, revealed in late November, brings the variety of costs to 11.
Prosecutors accuse Tal, Oren and Alon of taking part in a conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking, together with working collectively to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of feminine victims” between 2008 and 2021. The indictment alleges the brothers, “collectively and with others,” perpetrated the scheme by inviting girls to journey and keep in luxurious locations, the place they have been finally attacked.
In a pre-trial movement filed in November, prosecutors cited group chats the place the Alexanders and different males traded graphic pictures and movies of girls, mentioned “hunts” and “kills” as they outlined the logistics for ladies to affix them on journeys, like one to Tulum. Prosecutors say in a single message, Oren talks about making an attempt “ludes” — shorthand for quaaludes, a drug prosecutors say the brothers had readily available — together with Xanax, MDMA and GHB, to incapacitate girls.
Other than the conspiracy cost, Oren, Tal and Alon are additionally dealing with three counts of intercourse trafficking and one depend of inducement to journey to have interaction in illegal sexual exercise. Alon and Tal are charged with intercourse trafficking a minor sufferer, whereas Oren and Alon are charged with aggravated sexual abuse. Tal can be on the hook for 2 further intercourse trafficking costs and one other depend of inducement. Oren faces a sexual exploitation of a minor cost, brought by prosecutors in a fourth superseding indictment in November.
After they have been arrested final yr, the twins have been additionally charged alongside their alleged confederate, household pal Ohad Fisherman, with sexual battery by Miami-Dade’s State Lawyer’s Workplace. The state dropped the cost in opposition to Fisherman earlier this yr over proof tied to the timeline of the alleged assault. Attorneys for Oren and Alon claimed this as a win of their effort to poke holes in prosecutors’ arguments and form public notion of the case.
However the federal trial is a big upscaling of the allegations aired in Miami court docket, with extra victims and purported proof. And the brothers have doubled down on their protection technique.
Oren introduced on attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, who have been dubbed the “dream staff” after representing Sean “Diddy” Combs in opposition to intercourse trafficking costs for which he was acquitted. The Alexander household employed disaster communications skilled Juda Engelmayer, who additionally represented Diddy, and counts fraudster Anna Delvey and Harvey Weinstein amongst his shopper roster.
The staff has largely sought to discredit accusers, accusing girls of in search of monetary achieve by bringing allegations, and to get circumstances dismissed primarily based on time-barred claims. (One civil lawsuit in opposition to Tal was dismissed in January below these phrases. Plaintiff Angelica Parker vowed to attraction.)
“For years, a partial and infrequently inaccurate public narrative has been constructed on allegations that have been by no means confirmed, a few of which have already been dismissed or withdrawn,” a spokesperson for the Alexanders mentioned in a press release. “The federal government’s newest motions repeat those self same disputed claims, stripped of context, and offered as in the event that they have been established reality. They don’t seem to be.”
(Ed. notice: The brothers filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to The Actual Deal, in search of $500 million in damages.)
New particulars emerge
Prosecutors have indicated {that a} essential tenet of their case lies in disturbing video proof of alleged sexual assaults, obtained when authorities searched Tal’s condominium at 432 Park Avenue in early January 2025.
One video recorded in 2009 exhibits Oren allegedly sexually assaulting one other one who seems to be “severely intoxicated and incapacitated.” Through the alleged assault, Oren moved her physique and had intercourse with the sufferer, who “didn’t actively take part,” in accordance with the submitting.
“When the sufferer spoke, her phrases have been so badly slurred that it’s obscure what she is saying, making clear that she was too incapacitated to consent to any sexual exercise,” prosecutors say.
The pretrial movement laid naked a brand new raft of particulars across the allegations included within the costs Oren, Tal and Alon will face at trial, together with a number of victims who have been minors after they have been allegedly attacked by a number of of the brothers.
The accounts, which vary intimately, add to what prosecutors say was a standard sample.
Prosecutors have described different situations wherein girls say they began feeling unusual after accepting drinks from the brothers, in some circumstances shedding consciousness, after which being raped by a number of of the brothers, together with different males.
“As a lot as defendants need to characterize the charged conduct as simply males behaving badly, this isn’t what the indictment costs. The costs are that three grown males conspired to entice girls and women to journey in interstate international commerce, to supply issues of worth to these girls and women, and to make use of drive and medicines so as to have sexual contact with these victims.”
The earliest allegation prosecutors included in a current submitting is from 2009, when girls invited to rejoice Oren and Alon’s birthday have been introduced from Manhattan to the Hamptons by a celebration bus. After arriving at a rental home, one of many girls says she was given a drink by Alon whereas in a scorching tub. The drink made her really feel drained, and Alon held her down within the scorching tub and raped her as she instructed him to cease, prosecutors allege. The identical evening, the girl noticed Tal having intercourse with a lady who was crying.
One of many extra detailed allegations facilities on a lady who says she met Tal on Instagram earlier than he invited her and a pal to the Hamptons in 2014. He allegedly instructed the girl that he would reimburse flights for her and her pal and e-book them a lodge room, just for them to finish up in a waterfront mansion with Oren and two pals, given a room with a door that didn’t lock. The subsequent evening, the girl says she seen her pal “started appearing erratically” after consuming half of a glass of wine.
She took her pal to their room, the place she piled baggage to dam the door. However Tal got here in, jumped on the mattress and requested if she had been ingesting. She mentioned sure, although she had not, and Tal left. Too nervous to sleep, she once more tried to dam the door with baggage and stayed awake. A few hours later, two males who she believed have been Tal and Oren entered. When the girl requested them, “Can I assist you,” she heard one among them say, “Oh shit,” earlier than they left, in accordance with prosecutors.
Early the subsequent morning, they have been packing to depart when Tal got here into their room. The girl says Tal, upset she was leaving, tackled her onto the mattress, and she or he pushed him off. However his demeanor shifted, and he grew to become offended. He chased her into the lavatory, the place she says he cornered her within the bathe and raped her.
She says she tried to scream however couldn’t increase her voice and as an alternative whispered “no, no, no.” As he left her crying within the bathe, he repeated “You wished that,” and “I care about you.”
The Alexanders’ new A-Staff
As their authorized battle forges on, the Alexander household has placed on a united entrance — for probably the most half.
Their dad and mom, Orly and Shlomy, have been fixtures at hearings in New York and Miami and a driving drive in figuring out the brothers’ subsequent authorized strikes. They’ve publicly stood by their sons as others beforehand of their interior circles tried to distance themselves from the household.
Tal’s estranged spouse, Arielle Alexander, alleged in court docket paperwork that Shlomy and Orly “modified on a dime” after they discovered she’d filed to divorce Tal, regardless of her assurances that she wished to separate “amicably and quietly.”
“After I instructed [Orly], she was not understanding,” Arielle claimed in court docket paperwork. Orly “instructed me I ought to be standing by my husband, and questioned my morals, amongst different disrespectful statements she made to me.”
Arielle additionally alleged the Alexanders’ dad and mom “started to terrorize, harass and scare me, appearing as their son’s agent and proxy from federal jail.” She accused Shlomy and Orly of barging into the Billionaires’ Row condominium she beforehand shared with Tal and stealing a number of watches, wines and different luxurious items, together with $50,000 in money that belonged to Arielle.
After their sons’ arrest in December, Shlomy and Orly appeared ready to throw the whole lot of their wealth in a bid to safe their launch on home arrest — a request federal judges have repeatedly denied, citing prosecutors’ arguments that they pose a flight danger and hazard to the neighborhood.
On the time, the dad and mom prompt their belongings, mixed with these of their sons, have been value about $1 billion. The household belongings embrace Shlomy and Orly’s waterfront house in Bal Harbour, the workplace constructing the place their safety firm, Kent Safety, is headquartered, plus properties in Israel and the Bahamas. The household additionally owns a 48-acre ranch close to Aspen, Colorado.
As authorized payments pile up, Shlomy has tried to promote some of his sons’ properties. In June, the household sold the waterfront Miami Seashore mansion the place Oren lived along with his spouse, Kamila Hansen Alexander, earlier than his arrest. A hidden purchaser paid about $52 million for the ten,000-square-foot house. Orly signed the deed on Oren’s behalf.
The household additionally tried to dump one other Miami Seashore property earlier this yr, this one belonging to an LLC tied to Alon. The property at 969 West thirty fourth Road, a deliberate Alexander Group growth, hit the market in February asking $2.2 million, although it was pulled about six months later with out discovering a purchaser, in accordance with a Realtor.com itemizing. One other waterfront house was listed for lease.
The brothers’ in-court circle appeared to develop for a November listening to to incorporate Gil Neuman, Orly’s brother and a fellow govt on the household’s Kent Safety agency; Alon’s spouse, Shani Alexander; and their oldest brother, Niv Alexander, who hadn’t been noticed at earlier hearings.
On the listening to, Decide Valerie E. Caproni raised the potential of pushing the trial to Could if excellent points aren’t resolved earlier than the Jan. 5 trial date. Her warning sparked an outburst from Niv, who was seated behind his dad and mom, uncle and sister-in-law.
“It’s not humorous, it isn’t,” Niv mentioned, shaking his head in an obvious response to the potential delay.
Courtroom safety and a U.S. Marshal came visiting to quiet Niv, warning him and his dad and mom that they must go away in the event that they continued talking whereas the decide was within the room.
Trial comes into focus
In a choice issued in November, Caproni cleared the best way for prosecutors to take the intercourse trafficking case to trial, rejecting a lot of the protection’s bid to dismiss the fees. She did, nevertheless, order prosecutors to drop tried intercourse trafficking from one of many costs because the statute of limitations on the 2009 allegation had already expired.
In her choice, Caproni pushed again on a number of claims from the protection, together with attorneys’ makes an attempt to border the fees as, at finest, state-level “date rape.”
“As a lot as defendants need to characterize the charged conduct as simply males behaving badly, this isn’t what the indictment costs,” Caproni acknowledged. “The costs are that three grown males conspired to entice girls and women to journey in interstate international commerce, to supply issues of worth to these girls and women, and to make use of drive and medicines so as to have sexual contact with these victims.”
She added that the indictment “isn’t charging sexual assaults that serendipitously occurred when a gaggle of 20- to 30-somethings [went] on trip and one aspect of the romantic equation fund[ed] a part of the holiday.”
She additionally rejected core arguments from the protection which have come up in earlier hearings, together with that prosecutors’ interpretation of the “something of worth” portion of the intercourse trafficking statute is just too broad.
“To the extent the Defendants argue that ‘there is no such thing as a money for intercourse,’” Caproni wrote, “their argument is irrelevant.”
