High profile real estate agent brothers Tal Alexander, Alon Alexander and Oren Alexander stand before Judge Valerie E. Caproni during jury selection at their federal sex trafficking trial in New York City, U.S. January 20, 2026 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
After two and a half days of deliberation, jurors on Monday convicted brothers and luxury real estate brokers Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander after a month-long trial on charges that they flouted their wealth and influence to lure women into scenarios where they could drug and sexually assault them.
Alon and Oren Alexander could be seen shaking their heads in the courtroom as a guilty verdict on all 10 counts of sex trafficking, inducing women to travel for sex and sexual assault and exploitation was delivered.
Marc Agnifilo, an attorney for Oren Alexander, told reporters outside the courthouse that the defense team still believed in their client’s innocence and wouldn’t stop fighting against the charges until they prevailed.
Jurors heard over a month of graphic testimony from 11 women accusing twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 38, and their brother Tal Alexander, 39, of forcibly pinning them down or slipping drugs into their drinks at lavish parties, in their apartments or weekend getaways to the Hamptons, then raping them, sometimes simultaneously or with other men.
One woman told the jury she was raped by Alon Alexander during her senior year of high school on a 2017 trip with friends to Colorado at 17 years old, telling jurors she was terrified as she felt her vagina tearing while Alon Alexander “scraped” his nails inside of her body, ultimately resulting in her bleeding all over the bathroom floor she said he assaulted her over.
“I was so scared,” she said, crying. “He just did what he wanted.”
Another woman said Tal Alexander invited her to the Hamptons through a friend, drugged her in a hot tub, then took her into the house’s gym, where he and another man laughed at her while asking her to lift weights as she couldn’t move. Then Tal forced his penis into her mouth while the other man forced his into her vagina from behind. Another said Tal Alexander forced her into a shower and raped her when she told him she was going to leave early from a trip to the Hamptons he flew her across the country for. Another told the jury Alon and Oren Alexander drugged her and took turns raping her while she was powerless to stop them on a cruise ship.
The conviction marks the ground floor of the fall Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander took from the penthouse suite of the New York City and Miami real estate scenes and party circuits. That descent started when two women filed civil rape suits against the brothers in 2024, unleashing a flood of allegations and lawsuits from dozens of women claiming one or more of the Alexanders had also drugged, raped or assaulted them on nights out or on trips they’d been enticed to take after an invitation from the brothers or their friends.
Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo makes closing arguments for his client Oren Alexander during the federal sex trafficking trial of high profile real estate agent brothers Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander and Tal Alexander, before Judge Valerie E. Caproni in New York City, U.S. March 4, 2026 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
The sprawling 10-count indictment the jury convicted on was based on rape allegations from dozens of women spanning over a decade. It charged all three with a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking from 2008 to 2022. Eight of the other nine counts charged one or more of the trio with sex trafficking, sexually assaulting or inducing specific women to travel for sex; the final count charged Oren Alexander with sexually exploiting a 17-year-old by filming himself raping her, a video showed to the jury and an experience she testified to having no memory of because she was drugged.
At the start of the trial, the indictment was 12 counts. However, prosecutors dropped two sex trafficking charges against the brothers earlier this week after two witnesses backed off from taking the stand, alleging intimidation from the Alexanders’ defense team.
Throughout the trial, the Alexander’s defense team worked to paint their clients as crass, rude, badly behaved womanizers who enjoyed hooking up with women and sometimes made “poor choices,” but not sex traffickers — Deanna Paul, an attorney for Tal Alexander even used her opening statement to tell the jury the brothers would have won the “asshole awards,” but that didn’t mean they should go to prison.
The trio was taken into custody by federal agents in Miami on Dec. 11, 2024. They’ve been held in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center without bail since January 2025.
Now, the brothers could face life in prison in a sentence that will come from U.S. Judge Valerie Caproni in the following weeks.