Alexander Brothers Sentenced To 30 Years Each After Sex Trafficking Conviction

Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,

Three brothers guilty of luring women to parties where they were drugged and raped have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded the luxury real estate brokerage Official, while Alon Alexander was an executive at a private security company. The brothers were arrested in December 2024 in Florida.

Prosecutors had requested life sentences for the Alexander brothers, which U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni rejected as "draconian," while defense lawyers asked for the 15-year mandatory minimum on the sex trafficking counts.

"Your conduct was monstrous," Caproni told the men, comparing them to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as she considered their claims that becoming fathers and husbands has changed their behavior.

"It's hard for me to believe the defendants changed their spots just like that," the judge said. She added, "It strains credulity that marriage would change them from sexual predators to model gentlemen."

The brothers will also serve 10 years of supervised release. Oren and Alon must each pay $300,000 in fines, while Tal was ordered to pay $350,000.

Their attorneys did not immediately return a request for comment.

Eleven women testified over the course of the trial at Manhattan federal court that one or more of the brothers sexually abused them.

Those who testified were among no fewer than 70 women who prosecutors said were assaulted by at least one of the brothers over the last two decades in places such as the Hamptons and Aspen, Colorado.

"It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was," one woman, using a pseudonym to protect her identity, said during her testimony.

Artist and gallery owner Lindsey Acree called for a life sentence. She testified that Tal Alexander and another man raped her at a Hamptons home in 2011 after being served a drink that incapacitated her.

"This has wasted my damn time. It's wasted your time. It's wasted everyone in this room's time," Acree told the judge.

Turning to the brothers, she said, "For why? For you. Because you did some really messed up stuff."

"The biggest thing is why? Why did you do this?" Acree said. "I don't understand the cruelty. I don't understand the hatred toward women."

Another woman, also using a pseudonym, testified that Tal Alexander raped her in August 2014. She said she carried "a quiet funeral in me for the person I might have become had this not happened to me."

Another woman speaking about being raped in the Hamptons said, "What looked like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets."

A federal jury convicted the brothers on March 9, 2026, of all counts they faced, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

"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," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.

Then-U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said at the time of their arrest: "As alleged in the Indictment, for more than a decade, the Alexander Brothers, alone and together, repeatedly and violently sexually assaulted and raped dozens of female victims."

The indictment alleged that from 2010 to 2021, the brothers used their positions of power to sexually abuse women through deception, drugging, fraud, and coercion.

In many cases, the brothers allegedly transported the women across international lines and drugged them, with some victims being physically restrained after explicit requests to stop, according to the indictment.

Each brother was charged with one count of sex trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. Tal faced an additional count.

The defendants had pleaded not guilty.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.