Alexander brothers found GUILTY of sex trafficking charges that could see playboy brothers imprisoned for life

The Alexander brothers, three notorious Manhattan luxury real estate agents, have been found guilty of using money from their multi-million dollar property to drug and rape multiple women.

Tal, 39, and twin brothers Oren and Alon, 38, were convicted on ten counts by a jury of seven women and six men at the Manhattan federal court.

They will be held in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center until sentencing on August 6.

The millionaire brothers were accused of drugging and raping dozens of women as part of a predatory campaign stretching back over a decade.

Their five-week trial heard from 11 accusers who claimed to have been attacked at various locations including the brothers' New York City homes, during a Colorado ski trip, at Hamptons mansions and aboard a Caribbean cruise.

Each brother faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years to life in prison for the charges which include sex trafficking, conspiracy, and other offenses tied to drugging, sexual assault.

The court heard from more than 30 witnesses, including accusers who told strikingly similar stories of being lured into the playboy brothers' luxury lifestyle before being drugged and attacked.

In his closing arguments, Assistant US Attorney Andrew Jones told the court that their accounts showed a disturbing pattern among the brothers, ripped straight from a rapist's 'playbook.'

The trio pleaded not guilty and their defense sought to portray their sexually charged behavior as at most morally reprehensible, but not criminal.

Their fourth brother, Niv Alexander, was not involved or charges with any of the crimes.

Ahead of the trial, the government stated that the brothers used 'their wealth and prominent positions in real estate to create and facilitate opportunities to sexually assault women'.

I have no idea whether the girls are telling the truth or the guys are. I’ve owned large boats and rented large boats though. To reduce my liability exposure, on day one, minutes before we are leaving the dock, I would give a short speech to the guys and a short speech to the girls. The speech to the guys was essentially NO means NO on this boat and as Captain I will throw your ass off or call the cops if there is even one incident. To the girls, I would say “Ladies’, if something is going on you don’t like you scream your head off as loud as you can scream NOT whine one or two years later that someone raped you. I did throw one guy off one time for marijuana possession and use.

Otherwise, everyone must have behaved. No incidents over 2 decades.

theguardian.com excerpt

Prosecutors have accused each of the three very powerful, very wealthy brothers of violent, forcible rape of at least 10 women each and in some cases of threatening them if they spoke of their experiences. The accomplished real estate moguls, according to prosecutors, took no chances when it came to their pursuit of sex, and worked together in a conspiracy to lure, incapacitate and attack women.

The Alexander brothers were extravagantly celebrated in Jewish and Israeli media ...... laded for being “model citizens” and Israeli success stories.

The civil case against Oren and his twin began in March 2024 when they were sued by Kate Whiteman, a woman who said she had met at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012. She claimed they had forced her into an SUV as she was leaving and drove her to the Hamptons, where she was assaulted at a party mansion called Sir Ivan’s Castle. A flood of similar allegations followed. But Whiteman is not in court to testify. It was reported last month that she was found dead near Sydney late last year. Authorities in New South Wales have said the circumstances of Whiteman’s death “were found to be non-suspicious”.

As the trial entered its third week, the court heard from Abusshan Bodjnoud, a woman who testified that she witnessed an unidentified woman being raped by Tal, 39, and one of the twins in the Hamptons in May 2009. Bodjnoud told jurors she was in the house when a party of men returned and she saw Tal “dragging” a woman who “was not walking on her own” to the pool. “Then the next thing I heard was a woman screaming and just asking people to stop,” she testified. She said she witnessed Tal and the twin “moaning” as they raped the woman in the hot tub. Bodjnoud, who said she was “terrified” to intervene, said she had written “rapist” and “you need to apologize” on the brothers’ door before she left the house but acknowledged she had not called 911 and was warned that the Alexander brothers “were very powerful”.

A day earlier, jurors were shown text exchanges the government says showed that the brothers coordinated to secure drugs – including ketamine, Xanax, Ambien and GHB – they allegedly used to incapacitate women lured with the promise of luxury travel and exclusive experiences. In one exchange from September 2011, Alon texted about an upcoming party, telling the recipient to “throw some panty dropper pills in the dishes sent to our table”. Attorneys for the defendants have described some of the references as “crude jokes”.

Maylen Gehret, who is suing Alon and Oren for sexual assault, told the court that Alon raped her in Aspen, Colorado, in 2017 when she was 17. She said she was at a club with two friends when Alon gave her a vodka cranberry. After a second drink, her head began to feel “really heavy” and she could “barely hold it up”. The twin then allegedly took the girls to an empty hotel room and raped her in the bathroom. “It really hurt, and I was so scared,” Gehret testified.

Outside the brothers’ trial, their father Shlomi Alexander, who emigrated from Israel to the US to start a successful security company before branching into Miami real estate, sprang to their defense, claiming a $35m effort was made to extort him.

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