The Alexander brothers made their remaining appearances in federal court docket earlier than their intercourse trafficking trial is formally underway.
Choose Valerie Caproni waded via the arguments and requests by disgraced brokers Oren and Tal, together with brother Alon, in court docket final week, together with arraigning Oren and Alon on a brand new cost. The brothers will probably be again within the courtroom on Tuesday, Jan. 20 for jury choice, with the opening statements of their trial scheduled to start on Jan. 26.
On Monday morning, U.S. marshals led the Alexanders, clad in khaki uniforms, right into a Downtown Manhattan courtroom for what was imagined to be a public listening to discussing which alleged victims would testify on the upcoming trial and below which names. Nonetheless, shortly after Caproni took the bench, prosecutors requested that she seal the courtroom to guard the identities of victims. Members of the press, together with The Actual Deal, New York Instances and ABC, had been requested to depart.
Earlier than kicking reporters and members of the general public out, Caproni talked about for the primary time that prosecutors had issued a fifth superseding indictment, which introduced the total number of charges in opposition to a number of of the brothers to 12. Prosecutors allege the brothers participated in a intercourse trafficking conspiracy between 2008 and 2021.
The newest addition prices Oren and Alon with sexual abuse by bodily incapacitation associated to an alleged assault on a cruise ship bearing a Bahamian flag in 2012. The brand new rely is said to the identical incident and sufferer already described in a rely within the indictment accusing the twins of aggravated sexual abuse by drive, risk or intoxication.
The Alexanders returned to the courtroom on Tuesday for his or her final pre-trial convention, throughout which one in every of Oren’s attorneys, Zach Intrater, pushed again on the added cost, arguing that prosecutors attaching two prices to the identical incident “leads us to imagine that the federal government doesn’t know what really occurred.”
The protection included their place in a movement to dismiss the rely, which additionally argued prosecutors failed to make use of the precise language of the legal statute within the indictment. Caproni denied the movement on Thursday.
All three brothers have repeatedly denied the allegations and have pleaded not responsible.
At a listening to in November, Alon’s legal professional, Howard Srebnick, argued that Alon’s 2019 engagement to his now spouse, Shani Zigron Alexander, marked his official withdrawal from the alleged conspiracy, or as Srebnick described it, the top of the “single life” he’d been dwelling together with his brothers.
Srebnick additional claimed that as a result of the conspiracy cost has a five-year statute of limitations, Alon’s withdrawal from it in 2019 would imply that he was charged exterior of that window and may due to this fact be acquitted from the conspiracy rely.
Nonetheless, in a choice filed Monday, Caproni rejected Alon’s bid, arguing as a substitute that Alon’s engagement solely signaled to his brothers his determination to get married, not that he would now not take part in or assist his brothers take part within the “intercourse trafficking scheme” alleged by prosecutors.
“Even when it may very well be stated that Defendant’s proffered statements point out his intent that ‘he himself [would] be monogamous,’ it’s a rare (and unsupported) leap to deduce from his pre-marital statements that ‘he additionally supposed to cease aiding his brothers [with] their actions with ladies,” Caproni wrote within the determination.
The brothers are additionally going through a number of civil lawsuits over drugging and sexual assault allegations, a few of which have been dismissed. Kate Whiteman, one of many first two ladies to accuse Oren and Alon of rape, was found dead close to Sydney, Australia late final yr, the New York Instances reported earlier this week. Whiteman alleged in a lawsuit that the twins raped her throughout a celebration within the Hamptons in 2012.
Her loss of life was reported to the New South Wales coroner’s workplace in Australia on Oct. 31, 2025.
A spokesperson for the Alexanders, Juda Engelmayer, stated the brothers realized of Whiteman’s loss of life from media stories and added that “the choice to launch this data publicly on the eve of the trial invitations apparent questions.”
After the Instances revealed the story on Whiteman’s loss of life, members of the Alexanders’ protection group reached out to the New South Wales police. A spokesperson for the area’s coroner’s workplace later confirmed the police had completed investigating Whiteman’s loss of life and located the circumstances surrounding it to be “non-suspicious.” The reason for loss of life stays unclear.
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