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

“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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Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk’s xAI over alleged explicit Grok deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair, who gave birth to one of Elon Musk’s sons in 2024, sued Musk’s xAI in a New York court on Thursday, alleging that its chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfake images of her at users’ request.

In the complaint, St. Clair, a writer, influencer, and political strategist, claims X users prompted Grok to manipulate images of her, including photos from when she was 14, into graphic sexual content. She alleges some images remained online for more than a week and that her premium X account was later terminated after she complained.

She is also requesting a temporary restraining order to compel xAI to immediately cease from “the intentional disclosure of nonconsensual intimate images.”

xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Grok first promised Ms. St. Clair that it would refrain from manufacturing more images unclothing her,” the complaint read. “Instead, Defendant retaliated against her, demonetizing her X account and generating multitudes more images of her,” the suit alleged.

St. Clair is also involved in a separate suit with Musk over the custody of their son, in which she sought sole custody.

xAI responded the same day with a separate lawsuit, arguing that St. Clair agreed to its terms of service, which requires any litigation to be heard in Texas. St. Clair is represented by attorney Carrie Goldberg, who specializes in cases involving abuse and has represented clients against Harvey Weinstein.

“xAI is not a reasonably safe product,” Goldberg said in a statement to Business Insider. “This harm flowed directly from deliberate design choices that enabled Grok to be used as a tool of harassment and humiliation. Companies should not be able to escape responsibility when the products they build predictably cause this kind of harm.”

The lawsuit followed international backlash against the Grok chatbot for its ability to undress images of real people and create sexualized images without their consent at users’ request.

Indonesia and Malaysia blocked access to Grok, while UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called explicit images generated by Grok “disgusting” and “shameful” in a meeting with the House of Commons.

On Wednesday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta also announced that his office is investigating the “non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced and posted online” of “women and children in nude and sexually explicit situations.”

X said on the same day in a blog post that users would no longer be allowed to create AI photos of real people in sexualized or revealing clothing on the platform, adding that the restriction “applies to all users, including paid subscribers.”

As of Thursday morning, Business Insider reporter Henry Chandonnet found that it is still “surprisingly easy” to prompt Grok to create nude images of him by going to the app itself instead of using the Grok chatbot on X.




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Trump sues the BBC for $5 billion, alleging defamation over January 6 documentary

President Donald Trump sued the BBC for defamation.

On Monday night, Trump’s lawyers filed a civil complaint in a federal court in Florida and are seeking at least $5 billion in damages from the British broadcaster.

The lawsuit claims that the BBC has defamed Trump in a Panorama documentary that aired about a week before the 2024 election. The complaint alleges the program presented a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction” of Trump.

The suit’s allegations focus on how the documentary was edited with regard to footage of Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech near the White House.

The White House and BBC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

This is a developing story; please check back for updates.




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Costco sues Trump’s tariff in bid to secure refund before Supreme Court ruling


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  • Costco filed a lawsuit to recover tariff payments imposed by the Trump administration.
  • The retailer challenged tariffs enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
  • Costco is seeking a full refund of duties paid.

Costco is suing the government to recover tariff money.

The wholesale retailer has filed a lawsuit against the United States, the US Customs and Border Protection agency, and Rodney S. Scott, the Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection.

The suit asks the US Court of International Trade to strike down tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump by executive order under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

In a complaint submitted Friday, November 28, the retailer said it is seeking a “full refund” of duties it paid after Trump used the emergency-powers law to levy what he described as “reciprocal” tariffs.

The complaint cited a previous lawsuit, VOS Selections, Inc. vs. Trump, filed against the Trump administration, for which the US Supreme Court heard arguments in early November.

“This separate action is necessary, however, because even if the IEEPA duties and underlying executive orders are held unlawful by the Supreme Court, importers that have paid IEEPA duties, including Plaintiff, are not guaranteed a refund for those unlawfully collected tariffs in the absence of their own judgment and judicial relief,” the complaint reads.

Costco, the White House, and the US Customs and Border Protection agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.




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