Luxurious actual property brokers Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother Alon had been convicted Monday of intercourse trafficking for utilizing their huge wealth to drug and rape quite a few ladies they lured into their twisted orbit.
The property hotshots — who catered to celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and helped promote a record-smashing $240 million Midtown penthouse — had been discovered responsible Monday after 20 hours of deliberations in Manhattan federal courtroom.
Jurors, over the course of a monthlong trial, heard nightmarish testimony from practically a dozen ladies who described being drugged, raped or groped by the three brothers after assembly them on courting apps and at glitzy events between 2008 and 2021.
The disturbing trial proof additionally detailed the siblings sexually assaulting ladies at gaudy Hamptons mansions, inside New York Metropolis flats, on a ski journey in Aspen, Colorado and through a Caribbean cruise.
Tal, 37, Oren, 36, and Oren’s twin Alon, a high government at their household’s highly effective personal safety firm, every face a minimal of 15 years in jail and as much as life behind bars for conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking and different intercourse crimes raps.
Oren and Tal co-founded the luxe actual property agency Official in 2022 after rising the ranks at brokerage large Douglas Elliman.
The brothers boasted deep connections in Miami and Hamptons actual property circles, and as soon as helped shut the sale of a $15 million Miami Seaside apartment to Kardashian and West, and the whopping Manhattan penthouse sale to hedge fund titan Ken Griffin.
However their empire began crumbling in June 2024 when accuser Kate Whiteman filed a lawsuit accusing Alon and Oren of raping her in a Hamptons fort dubbed “the Playboy Mansion of the East Coast.”
Whiteman’s swimsuit opened the floodgates to different allegations in opposition to all three brothers and a sparked a probe that led to the trio being arrested in December of that 12 months and despatched to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle with out bail.
Whereas she was not a deliberate witness on the federal felony trial, the jury of six ladies and 6 males heard from 11 different alleged victims.
One of many accusers, an Ukrainian mannequin utilizing the alias “Bela Koval,” recalled being “paralyzed” by a drugged drink as Oren raped her inside a $13 million Sag Harbor mansion the place the brothers hosted events.
“It was like my entire physique was tranquilized,” Koval testified.
A Nevada nurse utilizing the alias “Maya Miller” described Tal violently raping her as she wept within the bathe inside the identical Hamptons celebration home, the place he’d flown her and a buddy for a protracted weekend in 2014.
“What he did to me, it was pure management,” she informed jurors, dabbing tears from her eyes.
One other accuser testified that Alon raped her inside a Manhattan house after she met him at an unique NBA Finals watch celebration hosted by actor Zac Efron, who was pleasant with the brothers.
Jurors additionally watched graphic video that Oren allegedly shot of himself having intercourse with an incapacitated 17-year-old — who testified that she had no reminiscence of the episode.
Yet one more sufferer testified that Tal and Alon raped her inside a Southampton celebration home when she was simply 16 years previous.
The trial revealed crude on-line messages the brothers despatched to one another throughout their alleged reign of sexual terror — together with Oren telling his siblings that the “boys must hunt” as a result of “we’re working out of prey” and Alon writing in a textual content that Oren “took down a 17-year-old.”
All three brothers pleaded not responsible and didn’t testify.
Their legal professionals tried to poke holes within the accusers’ accounts of the assaults, and argued that their tales, as alarming as they sounded, didn’t add as much as intercourse trafficking beneath federal regulation.
“The federal government desires you to be so horrified by a few of the testimony that you just neglect what they should show,” Deanna Paul, a lawyer for Tal Alexander, stated in her closing assertion.
“Sure, generally they acted like entitled assholes,” Paul stated. “That’s not a federal crime.”
Days earlier than the beginning of the trial, Whiteman, an Australia native, was discovered useless close to Sydney. Native police concluded that she didn’t die on account of felony exercise.
Whiteman’s dying adopted a months-long effort by the Alexanders to discredit her, together with by posting semi-nude photographs and express texts she despatched the brothers after the alleged rape in public authorized filings.
