Three brothers who once enjoyed a lavish lifestyle may spend the rest of their lives in prison after prosecutors accused them of using wealth and influence to drug, sexually assault and rape women over a period of years.
Twins Oren Alexander and Alon Alexander, both 39, and their 40-year-old brother, Tal Alexander, are expected to be sentenced Oct. 27. In March, they were convicted on charges that included conspiracy, sex trafficking and sexual abuse.
“They were not party boys, playboys, womanizers, or misguided young men,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum provided to Oxygen. “They were predators. They spent years hunting and preying upon women because they wanted to, because they could, and because they kept getting away with it.”
Prosecutors have described the brothers as “serial rapists” after at least 70 women came forward alleging that they had been raped or sexually assaulted by the men.
The government is seeking life sentences, while defense attorneys have urged the court to impose the minimum 15-year prison term.
Although the defense acknowledged that the brothers had “engaged in conduct that was, at times, insensitive toward the feelings of certain women at certain times,” and apologized to those they “insulted or offended,” their lawyers continued to insist that the men are innocent.
“Alon, Oren and Tal steadfastly maintain their complete innocence of these awful charges,” the defense attorneys wrote in a sentencing memorandum obtained by Oxygen. “At no time did Alon, Oren or Tal rape or sexually assault another person.”
Here is what to know about the disturbing case and the brothers at the center of the convictions:
Who are the Alexander Brothers?
Before their arrests in 2024, the brothers lived in extraordinary luxury, with waterfront mansions, yachts and private jets, according to The Associated Press.
Oren and Tal worked as high-end real estate agents representing celebrities and extremely wealthy clients. They reportedly set sales records at Douglas Elliman before launching their own brokerage.
Alon, meanwhile, earned a degree from New York Law School and later took a leadership role in his family’s private security company, the outlet reported.
What Were the Alexander Brothers Accused Of?
Prosecutors, however, say the brothers’ public success concealed a far darker reality.
They allege the siblings began sexually assaulting women as early as 2001 or 2002, when they were teenagers attending high school in Miami.
The convictions focused on crimes prosecutors said occurred from 2008 through 2021, according to CNN. During that time, authorities alleged, the men used their money, status and connections to lure women with luxury travel and lavish parties.
“The defendants, worked together and with others known and unknown, to repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims,” prosecutors said in a federal indictment. “At times, the Alexander brothers arranged for these sexual assaults well in advance, using the promise of luxury experiences, travel, and accommodations to lure and entice women to locations where they were then forcibly raped or sexually assaulted, sometimes by multiple men, including one or more of the Alexander brothers.”
The indictment also states that the brothers sometimes encountered women by chance. Prosecutors said they frequently drugged victims before attacking them, “preventing them from fighting back or escaping.”
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Alexander Brothers’ Victims Testify at Trial
The five-week trial began Jan. 27 and featured testimony from 11 women who said they had been sexually assaulted by at least one of the brothers, according to U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.
One witness described, according to the AP, feeling excited after being invited to a party at actor Zac Efron’s New York City apartment. Efron, who is not accused of wrongdoing, was not implicated in the case. The woman said she met two of the Alexander brothers there.
She later attended an afterparty at a nightclub, where she was given a drink and blacked out. The woman testified that she awoke naked in a bed with Alon standing over her. When she told him she did not want to have sex, she said he laughed and replied, “Haha, you already did,” according to the AP.
Defense attorneys argued that the sexual encounter had been consensual.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Smyser said in her opening statement that the brothers would use “whatever means necessary” whether it was trips or drugs to gain control over their victims.
“They held their victims down and ignored pleas for help and attempts to fight back and escape,” prosecutors wrote in the sentencing memorandum. “They recorded their assaults and kept the videos and photographs as trophies.”
Jurors heard evidence that the men carried out the sexual assaults during ski trips to Aspen, weekends in the Hamptons and a Caribbean cruise, with one woman testifying under the pseudonym Maya Miller that she’d been violently raped by Tal in a shower at a Hamptons house party, according to CNN.
Another using the alias Bela Koval said it felt like her “whole body was tranquilized,” after she was given a drugged drink at a Sag Harbor mansion, before being raped by Oren.
What Were the Alexander Brothers Convicted Of?
In March, the brothers were convicted on all counts against them, including sex trafficking, as their stunned parents looked on.
Alon and Tal were also convicted of sex trafficking a minor, while Oren was convicted of sexually exploiting a minor, The Associated Press reported. Additionally, Alon and Oren were convicted of aggravated sexual abuse by force or intoxicant and sexual abuse of a physically incapacitated person.
“The jury saw the Alexander’s conduct for what it was—calculated, brutal sexual abuse that, unimaginably, the defendants celebrated,” Clayton remarked after the verdict. “This verdict cannot undo the effects of heinous abuse the Alexanders’ many victims endured, but it does send a message: New Yorkers want to bring an end to sex trafficking in all our communities.”
The brothers now face an hours-long sentencing hearing on Oct. 27, expected to include testimony from some of their victims.
Prosecutors believe the siblings should face “severe punishment,” arguing for a life sentence.
“The defendants’ damage can never be undone, but some degree of justice can be achieved through a fair sentence,” they wrote in the court records. “To account for the scale of the crimes, the harm the defendants caused, the blatant disrespect for the law they exhibited, and the need to prevent future assaults and to keep society safe, as well as the absence of countervailing mitigating circumstances, a severe punishment is required—one that is commensurate with the extraordinary nature of the crimes.
Meanwhile, the brothers’ defense attorneys have argued for the minimum of 15 years, while continuing to proclaim their innocence.
“They are innocent of these charges,” they wrote in the sentencing memorandum, “and they show honor and respect to our system of justice by vowing to fight for their innocence with all of their power for as long as is required, confident in the notion that one day they will be free to live out their lives with their children and families.”