convicted earlier this year<\/a> of sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and other charges.\n <\/p>\n\n The sentencing marks a dramatic fall from grace for the three men: Tal, 40, and Oren, 39, were top luxury real estate brokers, while Alon, Oren\u2019s twin, was an executive at their family\u2019s security company.\n <\/p>\n
\n During the five-week trial, prosecutors laid out evidence demonstrating the brothers\u2019 yearslong pattern of using their wealth and social status to lure women to luxury locations before using drugs or force to rape and sexually assault them \u2013 many of whom were unconscious or several incapacitated.\n <\/p>\n
\n Eleven women testified at trial about being sexually assaulted by one or more of the men, though prosecutors said more than 70 women had reported their accounts to investigators.\n <\/p>\n
\n Federal district judge Valerie Caproni likened the three brothers to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In letters to the court, the men\u2019s supporters described them as gentlemen, while the women who testified credibly at trial described \u201csadistic, misogynistic sexual predators,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cEither all of those women are in the wrong line of work because they should all be actresses, or they were telling the truth and they were raped and drugged. And I credit latter,\u201d the judge said.\n <\/p>\n
\n As Caproni handed down the sentences, several victims nodded their heads with pained expressions. One woman wiped her eyes with a tissue.\n <\/p>\n
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\n The brothers, wearing beige prison outfits, each addressed the court and acknowledged being ashamed of their behavior but vehemently maintained they never drugged or raped anyone.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI want to set the record straight \u2013 my brothers and I have never drugged and raped anyone. Have never trafficked anyone for sex. Have never conspired to harm anyone,\u201d Oren Alexander said Tuesday, as several victims shook their heads.\n <\/p>\n
\n As she sentenced the men, Caproni said she believed that was \u201centirely a lie.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cYour conduct was monstrous,\u201d the judge said.\n <\/p>\n
\n All three men were also convicted of inducement to travel for unlawful sexual activity. Alon and Tal Alexander were also convicted of sex trafficking a minor. The twins were convicted of additional sex abuse counts, and the jury also found Oren Alexander guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor.\n <\/p>\n
\n Their defense attorneys had asked the judge to issue the lowest possible sentence of 15 years, saying the men were interested in \u201cmeeting women\u201d when they were younger but are now dedicated fathers needed by their families.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe defendants really left the conduct on their own,\u201d Marc Agnifilo, a defense attorney for Oren Alexander, said. \u201cAll three defendants stopped and that matters.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, argued the men deserved life in prison, the maximum possible sentence, due in part due to the callousness with which they committed their crimes.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThese attacks were often relatively brief, an hour in an evening, and then after they were done, the defendants were able to laugh about it, brag about it, and move on with their lives,\u201d Elisabeth Espinosa, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe victims were left picking up the pieces, dealing with the shattering grief, the confusion, the pain of what the defendants had done to them, and what didn\u2019t matter to the defendants.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement after the sentencing the brothers preyed on young women and girls for years and used their social status to their advantage.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cToday\u2019s sentence makes clear that this craven, sinister conduct is extraordinarily serious and will be met with serious punishment,\u201d US Attorney Jamie McDonald \u2013 who attended the entirety of the hearing \u2013 said in the statement.\n <\/p>\n
\n Before they were sentenced, the Alexander brothers listened to a dozen women who described being preyed upon by the defendants. Some of the women dabbed their eyes or fought back tears; others urged the judge to render a sentence of life in prison.\n <\/p>\n
\n One woman, who said she was raped by two of the brothers and their friends when she was a teenager, said she still has flashbacks more than a decade after the assault.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI cry for the innocence of that terrified 16-year-old and stand for her today,\u201d said Isa Brooks, who spoke using a pseudonym. \u201cTheir eyes went black. As if I was being mauled by animals.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI grieve the girl that I was,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Brooks \u2013 who was one of the 11 women who testified against the brothers at trial \u2013 said she eventually reported the attack out of fear there were more women at risk, and she was in \u201cutter shock\u201d to learn how many other victims there were.\n <\/p>\n
\n Another victim who used a pseudonym, Maya Miller, said in court Tuesday she will \u201cforever carry the scars\u201d of being raped by one of the brothers in August 2014. Tal Alexander invited her to a mansion in the Hamptons where he trapped her in a bathroom and violently raped her while she pleaded with him to stop, prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memorandum.\n <\/p>\n
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\n \u201cWhat happened to me was a choice made for me, not by me,\u201d Miller said as she held back tears. \u201cWhat Tal Alexander did to me was a life sentence that I never asked for. Tal has fundamentally changed the way I experience being alive.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Ava Wells, who also testified under the pseudonym at trial about being raped by Alon Alexander in Tel Aviv in March 2016, said the moment that broke her during the trial was seeing a video of her former self during a playful moment.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn it, my face was glowing, like there was a light inside me I had completely forgotten was ever there,\u201d she said. \u201cSuddenly memories of who I used to be came flooding back. Seeing her completely undid me. Like a flash, the realization sank in and all I could think was: Alon stole her from me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n A woman identified as Olivia Lane, who did not testify at trial, said Tuesday Oren Alexander showed a \u201ccomplete disregard for (her) humanity\u201d when he raped her in 2015. Lane said she felt unwell after she had a few sips of a margarita while at a party.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe next thing I remember is waking up to being raped,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe did not destroy me, but he should be held fully accountable for what he did. I\u2019m here because I survived him, and I\u2019m here because I remember. Whatever they thought power is, is a joke,\u201d Lane said before addressing the three defendants. \u201cYou are weak. You are inhumane. You never had power and look at you now.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Lindsey Acree \u2013 who prosecutors say was drugged, forcibly raped and sexually assaulted by Tal Alexander in 2011 \u2013 said a sentence of life in prison \u201cdoesn\u2019t even begin to cover it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhy do we have to be here? Why do I have to be here looking at these guys? I would like to move on. I\u2019m going to walk out of this room and I hope something I did made some difference,\u201d Acree said, prompting applause from the rows of victims and their supporters seated in the courtroom.\n <\/p>\n
\n The three defendants stood before Caproni to make their final pleas for mercy, telling the judge they were ashamed of some of their past conduct but were innocent of the charges brought against them.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s one thing I need to tell you and I want to be absolutely clear \u2013 I have never not once in my life drugged a woman or had sex with a woman knowing they had been secretly drugged,\u201d Alon Alexander said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m not a perfect man, but I\u2019m innocent of these charges,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n He wiped tears from his eyes as he talked about the difficulty of being separated from his daughters, saying his life now is vastly different than when the charged conduct occurred.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m not telling you I became a flawless person \u2013 I\u2019m telling you I changed,\u201d Alon Alexander said. \u201cIt happened years before my arrest.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n His twin, Oren Alexander, said he was \u201cgreatly ashamed\u201d of some of his previous actions and was on a \u201cbad path\u201d before he met his wife.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was partying too much and sleeping with too many women during those years until I found the most beautiful inside and out perfect woman, the one I wanted to be the mother of my kids and my soulmate for life,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Tal Alexander told the judge he was a different person now, and he wished he had \u201cshown more maturity and been more thoughtful\u201d in the past.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI hope Your Honor can understand how difficult it is to stand here, facing the possibility of spending the rest of my life in prison, trying to find words to express genuine regret without confessing something I did not do,\u201d he said, his voice quivering as he spoke of a potential life sentence.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m asking you to please consider my whole life, my family and the possibility of my future beyond this case,\u201d Tal Alexander said as some victims in the courtroom held their heads in their hands. \u201cPlease have mercy on me, Your Honor.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Prior to issuing the sentences, Judge Caproni spoke directly to the brothers, calling their conduct \u201cshameful and degenerate\u201d and referencing days of testimony from victims who described \u201cmisogynistic sexual predation on the part of all three defendants.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cYour crimes wreaked havoc on their lives. It has caused long lasting damage to them. Many have significant problem trusting people,\u201d the judge said.\n <\/p>\n
\n She dismissed the brothers\u2019 apparent attempts to classify their actions as a part of party culture and lambasted their attorneys\u2019 filings ahead of sentencing, which described their behavior as \u201cinsensitive.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cNot just insensitive. It was wrong. Here the wrong was that you drugged, raped and trafficked women, not that you were rude,\u201d Caproni said. \u201cUntil each defendant comes to terms with what he did, he poses a risk.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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