{"id":433518,"date":"2026-01-27T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433518\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:50:12","slug":"brothers-were-predators-masquerading-as-party-boys-new-york-court-hears-us-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433518\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers were predators masquerading as party boys, New York court hears | US crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three brothers, two of them real estate agents who catered to the jet-set crowd, used a playbook over a 12-year stretch that sometimes involved drugging women and girls before raping them, a prosecutor told a New York<\/a> jury on Tuesday in an opening statement.<\/p>\n

Assistant US attorney Madison Smyser said the brothers used \u201cwhatever means necessary\u201d including luxury accommodations, flights, drugs, alcohol and sometimes brute force to lure women into situations where they could be raped.<\/p>\n

She said Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander \u201cmasqueraded as party boys when really they were predators\u201d from 2008 to 2021.<\/p>\n

Attorney Teny Geragos, representing Oren Alexander, urged the jury to reject the government\u2019s \u201cmonstrous story\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said the brothers, who got out of college in 2008, were successful, ambitious and sometimes arrogant as they pursued women in nightclubs, bars, restaurants and online in what is known as \u201chookup culture\u201d, hoping to have as much sex as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may find this behavior immoral, but it is not criminal,\u201d Geragos said. She discredited the women who will testify, saying some of them were hoping to enrich themselves with lawsuits against the brothers and spoke of themselves as victims only after feeling regret that they had done illegal drugs or had sex outside of relationships with their boyfriends.<\/p>\n

Attorney Deanna Paul, representing Tal Alexander, warned jurors that the subject matter of the case was disturbing and would seem like an R-rated movie, especially after prosecutors portrayed the brothers as \u201cmonsters\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn their early 20s, Tal and his brothers were party boys. They were womanizers. They slept with many, many women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She urged jurors to reject the criminal charges against the brothers if they conclude that the accusers\u2019 testimony was unreliable.<\/p>\n

The openings preceded testimony in what is expected to be a month-long trial.<\/p>\n

An indictment alleges that the men conspired to entice women to join them at vacation destinations such as New York\u2019s Hamptons by providing flights and luxury hotel rooms and inviting them to entertainment events and parties before sexually abusing them and sometimes raping them.<\/p>\n

The brothers have pleaded not guilty, and their lawyers say prosecutors are unjustly criminalizing consensual sex.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, the men violently sexually assaulted and raped dozens of women after luring them to various destinations with promises of luxury experiences, travel and accommodations.<\/p>\n

It said that often the brothers \u201cdrugged their victims before assaulting them, preventing them from fighting back or escaping\u201d.<\/p>\n

In court papers, defense lawyers have said that among witnesses they had identified, they had been able to locate evidence \u201cthat undermines nearly every aspect of the alleged victims\u2019 narratives\u201d.<\/p>\n

Oren and Tal Alexander were real estate dealers who specialized in high-end properties in Miami<\/a>, New York and Los Angeles. Their brother, Alon, graduated from New York Law School before running the family\u2019s private security firm. Tal is 39 years old while Alon and Oren, who are twins, are 38.<\/p>\n

The brothers have been held without bail since their December 2024 arrest in Miami, where they lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three brothers, two of them real estate agents who catered to the jet-set crowd, used a playbook over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-433518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}