Three Alexander Brothers Each Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking

Three Florida brothers who used the wealth and influence of their family's luxury real estate business to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York on Tuesday for sex trafficking.

Twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, and their brother Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted in March on multiple charges. A five-week trial heard about years of sexual assaults in Miami, New York and other upscale settings, including the Hamptons, Aspen in Colorado, and a Caribbean cruise.

A dozen of the victims spoke at the sentencing hearing in Manhattan. Several used pseudonyms and described how the attacks had wrecked their lives and their ability to trust others. One woman, who said Tal Alexander raped her in August 2014, told the court: "I carry a quiet funeral in me for the person I might have become had this not happened to me." She added that every second of the assault in a shower "felt like an eternity of terror."

Another woman said she was drugged and led into a bedroom at a Hamptons property, where she was raped. "What looked like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets," she said.

The brothers, dressed in tan prison suits, sat impassively as the women spoke. During the trial, their lawyers conceded the men were "womanizers" and said they apologized for being "insensitive toward the feelings of certain women at certain times", but maintained that all sexual encounters were consensual.

The brothers moved from Florida to New York in 2008. Oren and Tal Alexander became star agents at the real estate firm Douglas Elliman before founding their own brokerage, Official, which made hundreds of millions of dollars selling condos to wealthy and celebrity clients. Alon Alexander ran the family's private security company and took part in the group's lavish lifestyle of superyachts, private jets, exotic trips and waterfront mansion parties in Miami and elsewhere.

Prosecutors said that easy access to money and women let the brothers lure victims to parties and luxury trips, where they drugged and raped them, either together or with others. In a sentencing submission, prosecutors wrote that the defendants "acted to exert maximum domination over their victims" and made no effort to have consensual sex. They said the drugs left victims immobile and affected their memory of the assaults, while mocking and humiliating them shamed the women into silence.

Dozens more women came forward after the allegations were revealed in an article published by the real estate news outlet the Real Deal in June 2024. In an earlier court filing, prosecutors described the men as "serial rapists" and said at least 70 women were raped or sexually assaulted by them.

US district court judge Valerie Caproni said she believed the brothers should not be held at the same prison because they were a bad influence on each other. Their lawyers had argued on Tuesday that the three should be allowed to serve their sentences together.