Earlier this summer, brothers Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander were accused by more than 60 victims, including a minor, of rape and sexual assault in alleged incidents dating back to 2009. The Miami and New York City-based real estate moguls pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges. Their attorneys, who believe that the accusations are being orchestrated by the alleged victims’ personal injury lawyers, have questioned why it took so long for the women to come forward with their claims. Miami Herald reporter Ana Claudia Chacin, who has spoken to several of the alleged victims, shares her insights on the matter with In Touch Investigates‘ Kristin Thorne.

“I’ve learned that the stories that they are telling now are eerily similar,” she says of the victims’ allegations against Oren, 39, and his 38-year-old twin brothers, Alon and Tal. “You know, something the prosecutors in the FBI case said early on [is] that these are stories of women being either drugged or consuming too much alcohol, to a state where they’re completely incapacitated and unable to have consent.”

In early June, federal prosecutors accused the brothers of working together to drug, sexually assault and rape more than 60 alleged victims between 2009 and 2021. The brothers allegedly promised women luxury experiences in exchange for sex. Their legal team has denied the allegations.

“We’ve spoken to a number of women from across several stages of their lives, women in high school, women I spoke to just yesterday, someone who experienced something in 2011, so this would have been when [the brothers] started out in New York as real estate agents after college,” Chacin continues.

As for why the alleged victims are coming forward now, years after the alleged incidents occurred, Chacin says she thinks it was a domino effect, with many women becoming “more empowered” to speak out as others shared their stories.

“It just takes one or two to start it from the beginning, for women to feel empowered, to come forward,” she adds.

Chacin continues, “The woman I was speaking to yesterday was saying how this happened to them 20 years ago, and they were keeping these memories in little boxes, she says, for so many years, for a multitude of reasons, including the shame that they might have felt at the time, fear of not being believed. And it really took these two women going forward with lawsuits against them, naming themselves in these lawsuits, for other women to start wanting to share their stories and either file civilly or speak to the press.”

Chacin also says that she spoke to a woman who did try to report her assault to the police, but she was allegedly “dismissed because they told her that she had willingly consumed marijuana that she thinks was laced, and so she didn’t have a case. She asked for a rape kit, [but] they didn’t give it to her at the hospital.”

In a June interview with In Touch Investigates, the Alexander brothers’ attorneys Edward O’Donnell and Joel Denaro told Thorne that they believe the victims’ claims may be fabricated.

“It is no coincidence that for 10, 15 years, not one person had ever accused these brothers of ever doing anything inappropriate, and all of a sudden, at one time, in the same exact window frame, every single person that you’ve heard of that has accused the Alexander brothers of assaulting them came through a personal injury lawsuit trying to sue them for money,” O’Donnell said.

He continued, “How is it possible for all of these women to come out at the exact same time? Every single one of ’em is suing for money. None of them went to law enforcement. They only went to personal injury lawyers, and that is how law enforcement got involved.”

“There’s zero evidence whatsoever that the assaults occurred,” O’Donnell added.

An attorney for one of the alleged victims said in a statement to In Touch, “It is both predictable and pathetic that counsel for the Alexanders is name-calling the victims as opportunistic for seeking civil remedies after being [allegedly] trafficked and raped. Absent a time machine where the victims could change their fate and erase the horrors they suffered, the alternative remains holding the Alexanders financially accountable for the lives they have ruined.”

In July, the legal team for Oren and Alon Alexander filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit one of the women filed in New York. The motion contains flirty messages and nude pictures the woman sent to the brothers after she said she was allegedly attacked.

The Alexander brothers are scheduled to go to trial in January 2026.