Alexander Brothers Each Get 30 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking

Three brothers from Miami were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday for sex trafficking, after being convicted of drugging and raping dozens of women across more than a decade.

Alon and Oren Alexander, both 39, and their brother Tal, 40, were accused by federal prosecutors of using their wealth, power and social standing to lure women and sexually assault them. Prosecutors alleged that the victims included two teenagers.

Several women delivered victim impact statements in the New York City courtroom where the sentences were handed down. New York was one of multiple places where victims said the brothers assaulted them. Some of the women cried as they described what they called a "life sentence" of trauma and pain, and some spoke directly to the defendants.

Bela Koval recalled a trip to the Hamptons. "I never imagined my first time to the Hamptons would become a nightmare," she said. "What looked like a beautiful place became a mansion of horror, a place full of dark secrets."

Lindsey Acree chose not to read her written statement and instead spoke to Oren Alexander. "Why? For you? Because you did some really messed up stuff. I don't think, a life sentence doesn't even begin to cover it," she said. Acree also spoke about her 8-year-old daughter and said she would do whatever it takes to keep her child from living in a world with people as "demented as you guys are." Other victims in the courtroom clapped as she left.

The women and prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni to impose the maximum sentence on each brother. Defense lawyers requested the minimum of 15 years.

Before their arrests in December 2024, Alon and Oren had become well known through their real estate business, brokering luxury properties in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. Tal had an executive role at the family's private security firm after finishing law school.

In March, jurors convicted the brothers on all 10 counts against them, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and several counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. The brothers had pleaded not guilty.

In a court filing, prosecutors said the three raped or sexually assaulted at least 70 women, describing them as "serial rapists" who leaned on their influence as real estate scions and their closeness to celebrities. They said the pattern began as early as 2001 or 2002, when the brothers were still in high school. According to the indictment, the women were drugged and then abused while incapacitated, and photos were sometimes taken during the assaults.

At trial, defense attorneys argued that the encounters were consensual and that the men's "obnoxious" or inappropriate banter "doesn't constitute a crime." U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said at the time that such crimes "are all too prevalent in our society and all too often go unreported and unpunished," adding that "we have not done enough to root it out."