{"id":113670,"date":"2026-01-27T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:27:25","slug":"real-estate-brokers-face-sex-trafficking-trial-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113670\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate brokers face sex-trafficking trial in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The brothers operated in the glitz and glamour of the Hamptons and South Beach. Two were high-end real estate brokers<\/a> dubbed \u201cThe A Team.\u201d The third went to law school and ran their family\u2019s private security firm, which caters to heads of state and the rich and famous.<\/p>\n

They frequented nightclubs, cruised on yachts and flew on private jets. One lived alongside celebrities and corporate titans on Manhattan\u2019s Billionaires\u2019 Row. The others had multimillion-dollar waterfront mansions in Miami.<\/p>\n

But behind their posh, peripatetic facade, prosecutors say, Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander \u2014 known collectively as the Alexander Brothers \u2014 were predators who sexually assaulted<\/a>, trafficked and raped dozens of women from 2008 to 2021, often after incapacitating them with drugs and sometimes recording their crimes on video.<\/p>\n

The brothers met victims at nightclubs, parties and on dating apps, and recruited others for trips to ritzy locales, paying for their flights and lodging at high-end hotels or luxe vacation rentals before drugging and raping them, prosecutors said. In all, dozens of women have accused them of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Now, the brothers \u2014 Tal, 39, and twins Alon and Oren, 38 \u2014 face a reckoning<\/a> that prosecutors say was more than a decade in the making: a sex-trafficking trial that could put them in prison for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

Opening statements are slated for Tuesday in the brothers\u2019 trial in federal court in Manhattan, after they were delayed a day because of heavy snowfall over the weekend<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n

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Oren and Tal Alexander, the real estate dealers who specialized in high-end properties in Miami, New York and Los Angeles, have pleaded not guilty, along with their brother Alon, who graduated from New York Law School before taking his position with the security firm.<\/p>\n

All three have been held without bail since their December 2024 arrests. They were indicted months after several women filed lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Alexander Brothers said they \u201ccategorically deny that anyone was drugged, assaulted, or coerced, and the government has presented no physical evidence, medical records, contemporaneous complaints, or objective proof to establish those claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case highlights a broader concern about how the federal sex-trafficking statute is being applied,\u201d said the spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer. \u201cCongress enacted that law to address force, coercion, and exploitation; not to retroactively criminalize consensual adult relationships through inference or narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the defense has consistently said, allegations are not evidence,\u201d Engelmayer added.<\/p>\n

The brothers\u2019 attorneys have promised to show the jury of six men and six women that prosecutors have taken innocent romantic and sexual encounters and converted them into criminal activity through clever lawyering.<\/p>\n

Oren Alexander\u2019s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, has said the defense plans to prove that witnesses have lied to the government and that their testimony can\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n

Judge Valerie E. Caproni, who will preside over the trial, has rejected defense requests to toss out the charges or send the case to state court. The Alexanders\u2019 lawyers have said the allegations against them resemble \u201cdate rape\u201d crimes more commonly prosecuted in state courts, but Caproni disagreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat badly misrepresents the nature of the charges,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

Agnifilo has said the jury will hear evidence of group sex, threesomes and promiscuity. During jury selection last week, prospective jurors were asked questions related to sexual activity and sex crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case is about sex and sexuality,\u201d said Agnifilo, who represented Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/a> last year as the hip-hop mogul was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges<\/a> but convicted on lesser prostitution-related counts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In court papers, the Alexander Brothers\u2019 lawyers wrote that among the accusers they expect to testify at trial, they had located evidence \u201cthat undermines nearly every aspect of the alleged victims\u2019 narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said their evidence will show that the brothers \u201chave acted with apparent impunity \u2014 forcibly raping women whenever they wanted to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The brothers operated in the glitz and glamour of the Hamptons and South Beach.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46644,288,419,10806,3640,417,10823,415,50544,4720,2849,1016,75,31035,5546,9,24,11,10,46645,13255,48202,3019,4721,421,33305],"class_list":["post-113670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alon-alexander","tag-business","tag-courts","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-general-news","tag-human-trafficking","tag-indictments","tag-juda-engelmayer","tag-juries","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-los-angeles","tag-manhattan","tag-marc-agnifilo","tag-miami","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-oren-alexander","tag-sean-diddy-combs","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news","tag-valerie-e-caproni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}