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Alexander brothers found guilty on all counts. Wealthy siblings face potential life terms for a decade of rapes.

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A trio of wealthy brothers was found guilty of federal sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan on Monday in a grand-slam verdict convicting them of each count they faced in a 10-count indictment.

The jury deliberated for three days before announcing a verdict for former luxury real estate brokers Tal Alexander, 39, and Oren Alexander, 38, as well as for Oren’s twin, Alon Alexander, a former executive in his parents’ private security firm.

The three brothers sat at the defense tables, shaking their heads as the verdict was read. Sentencing was set for August 6 for each defendant.

Any sex trafficking conviction, including for the top count of sex-trafficking conspiracy, carries a potential maximum sentence of life in prison.

The verdict follows a five-week trial in which prosecutors called 10 rape accusers to testify, none of whom had reported their incidents to police.

The women gave compelling, sometimes tearful testimony about attacks in luxe locations in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Aspen, and Tel Aviv stretching back to 2008, when the brothers were in their early 20s.

They said the brothers used false promises of “afterparties” or fun weekend getaways to lure them into the worst experiences of their lives — being sexually violated through violence or a drugged drink.

Two women told jurors that they were drugged and then attacked by two of the brothers at the same time.

One said the twins took turns raping her inside a cruise ship cabin in 2012. The other said she was attacked by Tal and Alon Alexander and two other men in the bedroom of a Southampton vacation home in 2009, when she was 16 years old.

“I was wondering why they hated me,” the woman recalled thinking as she fell in and out of consciousness on a bed.

All ten women told jurors that in the hours and days after they were attacked, shame and fear kept them from telling anyone but their closest friends.

Only when they saw that the brothers were being sued and arrested — over allegations like their own — did they find the courage to step forward, the women testified.

“Because this feels bigger than me,” one accuser explained of coming forward now, fourteen years after she said she was drugged and raped at age 20 after a party at the Manhattan penthouse of actor Zac Efron.

“I’m 34 years old now, and I know who I am,” another accuser explained of coming forward. “And I wanted someone to be held accountable for what happened to me.”

Defense lawyers maintained that any sex was consensual and that the accusations were the product of regret and faulty memories.

They pointed to inconsistencies about timing and the women’s failure to take drug tests or report the incidents to law enforcement, and noted that many of the women communicated with the brothers

The defense also challenged whether the accounts the women described added up to sex trafficking, the charge behind half the counts in the ten-count indictment.

To convict on sex trafficking, jurors needed to find that the brothers used force, fraud, or coercion — including by secretly drugging drinks — to cause a commercial sex act, defined as sex in return for something of value.

Prosecutors said that the “something of value” was the brothers’ promise of a beach weekend at a Hamptons mansion, or an invite to go from a club to a hotel room for a fun “after-party.”

Defense lawyers countered that what was described in testimony was not sex trafficking because, in their view, there was no quid-pro-quo relationship proven between the lure — the “something of value” — and the alleged sex.

“The commerce — the thing of value — must be a result of the sex,” argued Marc Agnifilo, defense attorney for Oren Alexander.

In July, Agnifilo won a partial acquittal in another high-profile Manhattan sex trafficking case, that of entertainment and lifestyle entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs.

In that trial, Agnifilo similarly argued that the federal sex-trafficking statute was being stretched beyond its original purpose of protecting sex workers.

Combs was also acquitted of racketeering; he was convicted of transporting for purposes of prostitution and is serving a four-year prison term.




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‘Million Dollar Listing’ broker sues Oren Alexander as verdict looms in his criminal case

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“Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” star Tracy Tutor has sued Oren Alexander, accusing him of sexual assault as the ex-high-end real estate broker and his brothers await a verdict in their criminal sex trafficking trial.

Tutor, a real estate broker in California and Texas who has been featured on six seasons of the Bravo real estate TV show, alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday in New York federal court that she is a victim of Alexander’s “ruthless abuse of women.”

In the court papers, Tutor accused Alexander, then a top broker at Douglas Elliman, of enticing her to attend a 2014 recruiting event in New York and sexually assaulting and drugging her.

“Ms. Tutor did not know that she would cross paths that night with Oren Alexander, a man with a history of slipping drugs into women’s drinks so that he could sexually assault them,” Tutor’s lawsuit says. “Tragically, Oren Alexander did exactly that.”

Jason Goldman, an attorney representing Alexander in civil litigation, slammed Tutor’s lawsuit, calling it “salacious and demonstrably false” in a statement.

Goldman said Tutor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, timed the filing of the lawsuit “for maximum media impact, “choosing the eve of jury deliberations in the federal trial despite the fact that the allegations are more than a decade old and have already been aired publicly.”

“This appears to be nothing more than a transparent attempt to create headlines and taint the proceedings at a critical moment,” Goldman said. “We are confident the jury will focus on the evidence presented in court, not on opportunistic litigation tactics.”


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Oren Alexander faces up to life behind bars.

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Kaplan, Tutor’s attorney who previously represented E. Jean Carroll in her sexual abuse and defamation cases against President Donald Trump, did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Business Insider.

Alexander, his brother Tal Alexander — also a former luxury real estate broker — and Oren’s twin, Alon Alexander, are standing trial in Manhattan federal court on sex trafficking and other sex crime charges.

A six-man, six-woman jury began deliberations Thursday, after five weeks of testimony in the criminal trial. Prosecutors have alleged that the brothers raped and drugged dozens of women and girls in a more than decadelong scheme.

The Alexander brothers face up to life behind bars. They have vehemently denied the federal charges against them, as well as other allegations.

Tutor, who now works for the real estate firm Compass, is one of a slew of women who have filed civil lawsuits against the Alexander brothers.

Her lawsuit says that in 2014, Douglas Elliman paid for Tutor to fly from Los Angeles to New York for a networking reception to meet the company’s top executives and agents.

“At the dinner after the reception, Ms. Tutor accepted a drink from someone, which she did not order, and blacked out not long afterwards,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit alleges that a friend of Tutor’s, identified as Cory Weiss, found Tutor in a men’s restroom stall with Oren Alexander kissing her with his shirt open, and Tutor acting “out of her mind.”

Oren Alexander, the lawsuit says, was “touching her in intimate areas for his own sexual gratification.”

“Mr. Weiss proceeded to get into a heated argument with Oren and eventually managed to extricate Ms. Tutor from the restroom,” the lawsuit says, adding that Weiss decided to leave the dinner, but asked that someone else make sure Tutor got back to her hotel safely.

“Unfortunately, she did not,” the lawsuit says. “For more than a decade since that night, Ms. Tutor believed that she had woken up the next morning in her own hotel room.”

“Several critical memories returned” to Tutor following 2024 lawsuits against the Alexanders, accusing them of rape, her lawsuit says.

Tutor spoke out about her 2014 allegations to The New York Times in July 2024. Her lawsuit says that she now “recalls that she woke up in someone else’s hotel room the next morning, naked and alone.”

The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and an unspecified amount in damages.




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Alexander brothers testimony describes a woman being sexually assaulted in a Hamptons hot tub as partygoers watched

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Two Alexander brothers had sex with a protesting woman in the backyard of a Hamptons rental as other partygoers joined in or watched, according to testimony in the third week of the siblings’ Manhattan sex trafficking trial.

“She was over and over and over asking them to stop,” a witness told the jury of an unnamed woman she described as intoxicated and “screaming” for help in a hot tub.

It was Saturday night on Memorial Day weekend in 2009. Tal Alexander and “one of the twins” — the witness couldn’t say if it was Alon or Oren Alexander — were among those sexually assaulting the woman, according to the testimony.

“It seemed nobody was taking action,” said the witness, Avishan Bodjnoud, an information management executive at the United Nations.

Bodjnoud said she asked the people around her to do something, but no one would. In the midst of a party, “there were no allies there to help,” Bodjnoud said.

She felt too fearful and too alone in her outrage to contact the police, Bodjnoud told the jury.

Instead, she fled the party in a taxi, but not before scrawling “Rapists” and “You need to apologize” in eyeliner on the front door and wall of the Southampton rental, Bodjnoud testified.

Photographs of the graffiti, recovered from Tal Alexander’s hard drive, were shown in court. “I hoped that someday this could be used as evidence,” Bodjnoud said, seeing the photographs and tearing up on the witness stand.

The disturbing testimony capped the third week of the trial of former luxury real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother, Alon.

So far — roughly halfway through the federal trial — nine accusers have taken the stand. In sometimes tearful testimony, they have described being sexually assaulted behind closed doors by one or more of the brothers, including on a cruise ship, at two Hamptons rentals, and at an Aspen ski resort.

The hot tub incident stands out as the only alleged assault to take place in public view, with a pool party in full swing. It is not clear whether prosecutors will call the woman herself to the stand or whether she was ever identified.

Lawyers for the brothers say that any sex was consensual and not trafficking. In their cross-examinations of witnesses, the lawyers have repeatedly pointed out that none of the women called the police or took a drug test that could substantiate their claims of being drugged.

During cross-examination, a defense lawyer for Tal Alexander challenged Bodjnoud’s testimony that she remained silent out of fear for the brothers’ power and influence.

“Were you aware that in 2009, Tal Alexander was a 21-year-old copy machine salesman?” asked the lawyer, Milton Williams.

A second witness to the alleged hot tub assault testified on Thursday and Friday under the pseudonym “Isa Brooks.”

Brooks told jurors she saw “a girl, I believe, in a green bikini with a bunch of guys on top of her.”

She said she heard another woman — who, like her, was indoors looking out into the yard — cry out, “I work for the UN and I know what you’re doing!”

Oren Alexander, who was outside, slammed the door in that woman’s face, Brooks testified.

Brooks was called to testify to her own alleged assault, which she said took place earlier in the day on that same Saturday. She was days away from her 17th birthday.

She described struggling and falling in and out of consciousness as Tal Alexander and Alon Alexander, whom she described as the “quieter twin,” joined with two other men in violently assaulting her on a bed.

The four men were saying “degrading words” during the attack, Brooks told the jury.

“I was wondering why they hated me,” she recalled thinking.

On cross-examination, Brooks was questioned by the defense about photographs showing her celebrating her 17th birthday with school pals days after the incident, and was asked why, days after that, she and a girlfriend stayed overnight at another Hamptons home where Tal Alexander was also present.

“I was scared to rock the boat,” she responded of her reluctance to speak out or call the authorities. “I was scared that I would get in trouble.”

The brothers face up to life in prison if convicted of a top count of sex trafficking conspiracy.




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